This collection of gothic stories includes selections from the late 18th century to the early 20th century and includes: Barbauld, Anna. "Sir Bertrand, a Fragment"; Crookenden, Isaac "The Vindictive Monk"; Brown, Charles Brockden. "Somnambulism"; Polidori, John William. "The Vampyre"; Irving, Washington. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"; Scott, Walter "The Tapestried Chamber"; Le Fanu, Sheridan "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter"; Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Masque of the Red Death"; Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial"; Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Cask of Amontillado"; Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Rappaccini's Daughter"; Collins, Wilkie. "The Traveler's Story"; Gaskell, Elizabeth. "The Old Nurse's Story"; Hauff, Wilhelm. "The Severed Hand"; Kipling, Rudyard. "The Mark of the Beast"; Doyle, A. Conan. "Lot No. 249"; Freeman, Mary Wilkins. "Luella Miller"; Blackwood, Algernon. "The Willows"; Gautier, Th ophile. "The Mummy's Foot"; Loring, F. G. "The Tomb of Sarah"; Lovecraft, H. P. "The Call of Cthulhu".