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The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry

Patricia L. Skarda & Nora Crow Jaffe

First published 1981
Publisher NAL Meridian
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages xxix+479
Price $8.95
ISBN 0452006368

The listing in Locus #247 (August 1981) gives the price as $7.95 and the page count as 448. "First Printing, June, 1981" on copyright page of Archive.org copy. Other prices on back cover: Canada $9.95.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
2 The Apparition of Mrs. Veal Daniel Defoe Short Story
11 On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment Dr. John Aikin & Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Short Story
18 The Snow-Fiend Ann Radcliffe Poem
20 December's Eve, Abroad Ann Radcliffe Poem
21 December's Eve, at Home Ann Radcliffe Poem
23 A Receipt for Writing a Novel Mary Alcock Poem
27 Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine Matthew Gregory Lewis Poem
29 Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green Matthew Gregory Lewis Poem
35 "Christabel" Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem
55 Manfred: A Dramatic Poem Lord George Gordon Byron Poem
94 The Vampyre: A Tale Dr. John William Polidori Novelette
110 A Fragment of a Novel Lord George Gordon Byron Short Story
117 Transformation Mary Shelley Short Story
133 Isabella, or the Pot of Basil John Keats Poem
153 Wandering Willie's Tale Sir Walter Scott Short Story
169 The Spectre Bridegroom Washington Irving Short Story
182 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
199 Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
212 Rochester's Song to Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Poem
214 R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida Emily Brontë Poem
214 Retrospection Charlotte Brontë Poem
215 No Coward Soul Is Mine Emily Brontë Poem
218 The Signalman Charles Dickens Short Story
231 Sister Helen Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poem
240 Goblin Market Christina Georgina Rossetti Poem
256 Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
285 Perilous Play Louisa May Alcott Short Story
298 The Ghostly Rental Henry James Novelette
326 The Stolen Child William Butler Yeats Poem
331 Markheim Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
346 The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy Poem
347 A Wasted Illness Thomas Hardy Poem
350 The Monster Stephen Crane Novella
400 The Mezzotint M. R. James Short Story
411 Arabesque: The Mouse A. E. Coppard Short Story
419 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Short Story
429 Clytie Eudora Welty Short Story
442 The River Flannery O'Connor Short Story
458 Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) Anne Sexton Poem
465 Suffer the Little Children Stephen King Short Story
476 Suggestions for Further Reading in the Gothic Tradition uncredited Essay
xi General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) Patricia L. Skarda & Nora Crow Jaffe Essay
xxv Critical Studies of the Gothic uncredited Essay