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• xi • Introduction (The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales) • (1992) • essay by Chris Baldick
• 3 • Sir Bertrand: a Fragment • (1992) • short story by John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment 1773) [as by Anna Laetitia Aikin]
• 7 • The Poisoner of Montremos • (1992) • short story by Richard Cumberland (variant of Remarkable Narrative 1791)
• 12 • The Friar's Tale • (1792) • short story by Anonymous
• 23 • Raymond: A Fragment • (1799) • short story by Juvenis
• 27 • The Parricide Punished • (1972) • short story by M** à un de ses Amis (trans. of Avanture Singuliere 1766) [as by Anonymous]
• 31 • The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin • (1801) • short story by Anonymous
• 51 • The Vindictive Monk, or, The Fatal Ring • (1802) • short story by Isaac Crookenden
• 63 • The Astrologer's Prediction, or, The Maniac's Fate • (1972) • short story by uncredited (variant of The Fatalist 1824) [as by Anonymous]
• 70 • Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist • (1992) • short story by
  Pétrus Borel^?Petrus Borel
  (trans. of Don Andréa Vésalius, l'anatomiste 1833)
• 82 • Lady Eltringham, or, the Castle of Ratcliffe Cross • (1836) • short story by J. Wadham
• 85 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 102 • A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family • (1992) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 133 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 149 • The Yellow Wall-Paper • (1892) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman [as by Charlotte Perkins Stetson]
• 158 • Selina Sedilia • (1865) • short story by Bret Harte
• 165 • Jean-ah Poquelin • non-genre • (1875) • short story by George Washington Cable
• 183 • Olalla • (1885) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 218 • Barbara of the House of Grebe • (1890) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
• 245 • Bloody Blanche • (1992) • short story by Marcel Schwob (trans. of Blanche la sanglante 1892)
• 264 • The Adventure of the Speckled Band • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1892) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 286 • Hurst of Hurstcote • (1893) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 299 • A Vine on a House • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 302 • Jordan's End • non-genre • (1923) • short story by Ellen Glasgow
• 316 • The Outsider • [Dream Cycle] • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 322 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 331 • A Rendezvous in Averoigne • [Averoigne] • (1931) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 344 • The Monkey • (1934) • novelette by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]
• 386 • Miss De Mannering of Asham • (1935) • novelette by F. M. Mayor
• 407 • The Vampire of Kaldenstein • (1938) • novelette by Frederick Cowles
• 424 • Clytie • (1941) • short story by Eudora Welty
• 435 • Sardonicus • (1961) • novelette by Ray Russell
• 466 • The Bloody Countess • (1986) • short story by Alejandra Pizarnik (trans. of La condesa sangrienta 1968)
• 478 • The Gospel According to Mark • (1971) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El evangelio según Marcos 1970)
• 483 • The Lady of the House of Love • (1975) • short story by Angela Carter
• 498 • Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl • (1988) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 502 • Blood Disease • (1988) • novelette by Patrick McGrath
• 519 • If You Touched My Heart • (1991) • short story by Isabel Allende (trans. of Si me tocaras el corazón 1989)
• 527 • Notes (The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales) • (1992) • essay by Chris Baldick