| 7 |
Introduction (The Theory of the Weird Tale)
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S. T. Joshi
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Essay
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| 21 |
On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror
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Anna Letitia Aikin
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Essay
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| 25 |
Preface to The Old English Baron
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Clara Reeve
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Essay
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| 28 |
Horace Walpole
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Sir Walter Scott
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Essay
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| 45 |
From Biographia Literaria
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Essay
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| 47 |
On the Supernatural in Poetry
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Ann Radcliffe
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Essay
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| 58 |
On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition
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Sir Walter Scott
|
Essay
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| 102 |
Introduction to Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
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Essay
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| 108 |
Preface to Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
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Edgar Allan Poe
|
Essay
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| 110 |
A Preliminary Word to Uncle Silas
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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Essay
|
| 112 |
Miss Braddon
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Henry James
|
Essay
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| 118 |
Preface to Hauntings
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Vernon Lee
|
Essay
|
| 121 |
The Value of the Supernatural in Fiction
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Lafcadio Hearn
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Essay
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| 132 |
The Supernatural in Fiction
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Andrew Lang
|
Essay
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| 138 |
Note to The House of Souls
|
Arthur Machen
|
Essay
|
| 143 |
On The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
|
Essay
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| 150 |
Edgar Allan Poe
|
Walter de la Mare
|
Essay
|
| 157 |
Romance and the Modern Stage
|
Lord Dunsany
|
Essay
|
| 166 |
On Dreams
|
Edward Lucas White
|
Essay
|
| 170 |
Introduction to Ghosts and Marvels
|
M. R. James
|
Essay
|
| 177 |
Preface to More Tales of the Uneasy
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Violet Hunt
|
Essay
|
| 192 |
The Occult Story
|
Henry S. Whitehead
|
Essay
|
| 197 |
Introduction to "Supernatural Horror in Literature"
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
Essay
|
| 201 |
Some Remarks on Ghost Stories
|
M. R. James
|
Essay
|
| 210 |
Sheridan Le Fanu
|
E. F. Benson
|
Essay
|
| 213 |
Ghosts--Treat Them Gently!
|
M. R. James
|
Essay
|
| 217 |
Extracts from Letters
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
Essay
|
| 224 |
Notes on Writing Weird Fiction
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
Essay
|
| 228 |
Credo
|
Oliver Onions
|
Essay
|
| 231 |
Atmosphere in Weird Fiction
|
Clark Ashton Smith
|
Essay
|
| 235 |
Preface to Ghosts
|
Edith Wharton
|
Essay
|
| 239 |
Author's Preface to Tales of Algernon Blackwood
|
Algernon Blackwood
|
Essay
|
| 245 |
On Re-Reading The Three Impostors and the Wonder Story
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Arthur Machen
|
Essay
|
| 249 |
Introduction to The Second Ghost Book
|
Elizabeth Bowen
|
Essay
|
| 252 |
Introduction to The Third Ghost Book
|
L. P. Hartley
|
Essay
|
| 255 |
Sources (The Theory of the Weird Tale)
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S. T. Joshi
|
Essay
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