The Evil Image
by Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe, Daniel Defoe, John Aikin, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Alcock, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Sheridan Le Fanu, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Montague Rhodes James, A. E. Coppard, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Sexton, Stephen King
xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited 2 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706) 11 • On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment • (1773) • short story by Anna Letitia Barbauld and John Aikin (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment) [as by Dr. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld] 18 • The Snow-Fiend • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 20 • December's Eve, Abroad • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 21 • December's Eve, At Home • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe 23 • A Receipt for Writing a Novel • (1799) • poem by Mary Alcock 27 • Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine • (1796) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis 29 • Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green • (1801) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis 35 • "Christabel" • (1797) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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