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Leixlip Castle • (1825) • short story by Charles Maturin
The Ghost and the Bone-Setter • [The Purcell Papers • 1] • (1838) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Monk of Horror, or The Conclave of Corpses • (1972) • short story by Joseph Snowe (variant of The Conclave of Corses 1839) [as by Anonymous]
The Expedition to Hell • (1827) • short story by James Hogg (variant of George Dobson's Expedition to Hell)
The Tale of the Mysterious Mirror • (1828) • novelette by Sir Walter Scott (variant of My Aunt Margaret's Mirror)
The Devil's Wager • (1833) • short story by William Makepeace Thackeray
Introduction (Great British Tales of Terror) • (1972) • essay by Peter Haining
Maddalena, or The Fate of the Florentines • (1972) • short fiction by G. E. K. I. (variant of An Italian Legend of the Fifteenth Century 1825) [as by Horace Walpole (in error)]
Sir Bertrand • (1972) • short fiction 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 Mrs. Anne Letitia Barbauld]
The Haunted Chamber • (1794) • short fiction by Ann Radcliffe [as by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe]
The Abbey of Clunedale • (1801) • short fiction by Nathan Drake [as by Dr. Nathan Drake]
The Anaconda • (1808) • novelette by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Nymph of the Fountain • (1791) • novelette by Johann Karl August Musäus? (trans. of Die Nymphe des Brunnens 1782) [as by William Beckford (in error)]
The Black Spider • (1844) • short fiction by Anonymous
The Water Spectre • (1809) • short story by Francis Lathom
Secrets of Cabalism, or Ravenstone and Alice of Huntingdon • (1821) • short fiction by William Child Green
The Unknown!, or The Knight of the Blood-Red Plume • (1826) • novelette by Ann of Swansea (variant of The Knight of the Blood-Red Plume 1802) [as by Anne of Swansea]
The Dance of the Dead • (unknown) • short story by A. Apel (trans. of Der Todtentanz 1811) [as by Anonymous]
The Assassins • (1814) • short story by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Dream • (1891) • short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
The Burial • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel 1819) [as by Lord Byron]
A Tale for a Chimney Corner • (1819) • short story by Leigh Hunt
The Dice • (1823) • novelette by F. Laun (trans. of Die Glückswürfel 1814) [as by Thomas De Quincey (in error)]
Glenallan • (1826) • short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [as by Lord Lytton]
The Magic Watch • (1826) • short fiction by Raphael (astrologer)
The Demon of The Hartz, or The Three Charcoal Burners • (1835) • short story by Sir Walter Scott (variant of The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck 1813) [as by Thomas Peckett Prest (in error)]
The Tribunal of the Inquisition • (1972) • short fiction by George W. M. Reynolds [as by G. W. M. Reynolds]
The Vampyre • [Lord Ruthven] • (1972) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori (variant of The Vampyre: A Tale 1819) [as by John William Polidori]
The Spectre Bride • (1972) • short story by unknown [as by W. Harrison Ainsworth (in error)]
The Iron Shroud • (1972) • short story by William Mudford [as by Anonymous]
The Astrologer's Prediction or The Maniac's Fate • (1826) • short story by uncredited (variant of The Fatalist 1824) [as by Anonymous]