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Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Thomas Love Peacock, John William Polidori, Washington Irving, Charles Robert Maturin, James Hogg, Victor Hugo, Frederick Marryat, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant, Anna Katharine Green, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Machen, George MacDonald, John Meade Falkner, H. G. Wells, Richard Marsh, Henry James, Bram Stoker, W. W. Jacobs, Robert Hugh Benson, Gaston Leroux, Théophile Gautier, William Hope Hodgson, Grant Allen

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Horace Walpole: Horace Walpole Table of Contents

The Castle of Otranto The Castle of Otranto A Gothic Story Table of Contents Preface To The First Edition Preface To The Second Edition Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V

William Thomas Beckford: William Thomas Beckford Table of Contents

Vathek Vathek Table of Contents

Eliza Parsons: Eliza Parsons Table of Contents

The Castle of Wolfenbach The Castle of Wolfenbach 1793 Table of Contents Volume One Volume Two

William Godwin: William Godwin Table of Contents

Caleb Williams

Ann Radcliffe:

The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Italian

Matthew Gregory Lewis:

The Monk

Charles Brockden Brown:

Wieland

Jane Austen:

Northanger Abbey

Mary Shelley:

Frankenstein

Eleanor Sleath:

The Orphan of the Rhine

Thomas Love Peacock:

Nightmare Abbey

Edgar Allan Poe:

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Cask of Amontillado

The Masque of the Red Death

The Black Cat

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

John William Polidori:

The Vampyre

Washington Irving:

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Charles Robert Maturin:

Melmoth the Wanderer

James Hogg:

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Victor Hugo:

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Frederick Marryat:

The Phantom Ship

Nikolai Gogol:

St, John’s Eve

The Viy

The Mysterious Portrait

Bram Stoker:

Dracula

The Jewel of Seven Stars (Original 1903 Edition)

Emily Brontë:

Wuthering Heights

James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest:

The String of Pearls; or, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

The House of the Seven Gables

Rappaccini's Daughter

The Birth Mark

George Eliot:

The Lifted Veil

Wilkie Collins:

The Woman in White

Robert Louis Stevenson:

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Charles Dickens:

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Unfinished)

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:

Carmilla

Uncle Silas

Arthur Conan Doyle:

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Oscar Wilde:

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Guy de Maupassant:

The Horla

Anna Katharine Green:

The Forsaken Inn

Charlotte Perkins Gilman:

The Yellow Wallpaper

Arthur Machen:

The Great God Pan

George MacDonald:

Lilith

John Meade Falkner:

The Lost Stradivarius

H. G. Wells:

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Richard Marsh:

The Beetle

Henry James:

The Turn of the Screw

W. W. Jacobs:

The Monkey's Paw

Robert Hugh Benson:

The Necromancers

Gaston Leroux:

The Phantom of the Opera

Théophile Gautier:

Clarimonde

The Mummy's Foot

William Hope Hodgson:

The House on the Borderland

The Boats of the Glen Carrig

Grant Allen:

Wolverden Tower

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Table of Contents

Preface To The First Edition

Preface To The Second Edition

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Horace Walpole, the fourth son of Sir Robert Walpole, was born at 17 Arlington Street on 24 September, 1717. He spent the greater part of his boyhood at his father’s house in Chelsea, a building that is now part of the Hospital. At Eton, Walpole did not distinguish himself in any way. After leaving Cambridge in 1737, his father appointed him Inspector of Imports and Exports in the Customs House, and, in the following year, Usher to the Exchequer. In 1739 he began the usual “grand tour” on the Continent, where he developed a passion for antiquities. He returned to England at the end of 1741. His father died in March 1745, and in 1747 Walpole settled in the neighbourhood of Twickenham at Strawberry Hill. The transforming of this house into “a little Gothic castle” and museum was the chief occupation of the greater part of his life. Here he erected a private printing press on which he printed many of his own works as well as some poems of Gray. Although never really interested in politics, in 1754 Walpole entered Parliament as member for Castle Rising in Norfolk, vacating this seat three years later for that of Lynn. About this time, too, he made an unsuccessful attempt to save the unfortunate Admiral Byng. He went to Paris in 1765, where he formed a friendship with Madame du Deffand which lasted until her death in 1780. But from 1769 until his death, his life, apart from intermittent literary work and adding to his museum, was comparatively uneventful. In 1773, however, his comedy Nature Will Prevail was acted at the Haymarket with considerable success. In 1791, on the death of his brother, he acceded to the Earldom of Orford. He died at what was then 40 Berkeley Square on 2 March, 1797.

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The following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.