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• 1 • Gothic Fiction of the Romantic Age • essay by G. Richard Thompson
• 44 • Commentary on the Tales • essay by G. Richard Thompson
• 55 • The Fair-Haired Eckbert • (1827) • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Der blonde Eckbert 1797)
• 75 • The Sisters • short story by Anonymous
• 96 • The Sandman • (1974) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)
• 139 • The Specter Bridegroom • (1928) • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Spectre Bridegroom 1819)
• 156 • The Spectre Bride • (1972) • short story by unknown [as by William Harrison Ainsworth (in error)]
• 167 • Extracts from Gosschen's Diary • (1818) • short story by John Wilson (19th century) [as by Anonymous]
• 174 • Story of an Apparition • (1818) • short story by A. B.
• 179 • The Man in the Bell • (1821) • short story by William Maginn
• 186 • The Iron Shroud • (1830) • short story by William Mudford
• 202 • Monos and Daimonos • (1830) • short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• 212 • The Elixir of Life • (1900) • novelette by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of
  L'élixir de longue vie^?L'elixir de longue vie
  1830)
• 238 • Transformation • (1967) • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation 1830) [as by Mary W. Shelley]
• 258 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 274 • The Dead Lover • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
• 307 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 331 • Bibliography (Romantic Gothic Tales, 1790-1840) • essay by G. Richard Thompson