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Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765–1840

Peter Haining

First published 1972
Series Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance #1
Publisher Gollancz
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages viii+487
Price £2.50
ISBN 057501038X

Contents' page numbers from Archive.org copy. Title page is printed twice, the first of which ends the subtitle with 1785-1840. Last page, Acknowledgements, is numbered 487 only on contents page.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (Great British Tales of Terror) Peter Haining Essay
11 Maddalena, or The Fate of the Florentines Horace Walpole (in error) Short Fiction
32 Sir Bertrand Mrs. Anne Letitia Barbauld Short Fiction
37 The Haunted Chamber Mrs. Ann Radcliffe Short Fiction
55 The Abbey of Clunedale Dr. Nathan Drake Short Fiction
68 The Anaconda Matthew Gregory Lewis Novella
113 The Monk of Horror, or The Conclave of Corpses Anonymous Short Story
117 The Nymph of the Fountain William Beckford (in error) Novelette
151 The Black Spider Anonymous Short Fiction
174 The Water Spectre Francis Lathom Short Story
189 Secrets of Cabalism, or Ravenstone and Alice of Huntingdon William Child Green Short Fiction
200 The Unknown!, or The Knight of the Blood-Red Plume Anne of Swansea Novelette
227 The Dance of the Dead Anonymous Short Story
236 Leixlip Castle Charles Maturin Short Story
250 The Vampyre John William Polidori Novelette
270 The Assassins Percy Bysshe Shelley Short Story
287 The Dream Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Short Story
301 The Burial Lord Byron Short Story
308 A Tale for a Chimney Corner Leigh Hunt Short Story
318 The Spectre Bride W. Harrison Ainsworth (in error) Short Story
328 The Dice Thomas De Quincey (in error) Novelette
353 The Astrologer's Prediction or The Maniac's Fate Anonymous Short Story
362 Glenallan Lord Lytton Short Story
383 The Tale of the Mysterious Mirror Sir Walter Scott Novelette
408 The Magic Watch Raphael (astrologer) Short Fiction
421 The Demon of The Hartz, or The Three Charcoal Burners Thomas Peckett Prest (in error) Short Story
432 The Devil's Wager William Makepeace Thackeray Short Story
443 The Expedition to Hell James Hogg Short Story
453 The Iron Shroud Anonymous Short Story
467 The Ghost and the Bone-Setter Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
477 The Tribunal of the Inquisition G. W. M. Reynolds (in error) Short Fiction

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765–1840 Cover 1973 Penguin Books Paperback Anthology 543
Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765–1840 Cover 1983 Penguin Books Paperback Anthology Barbara Lofthouse 543