Internet Resources:

BAINES, Paul, Ed. Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821. Oxford & New York: Oxford UP, 2000. Among the five plays are two Gothic dramas, Horace Walpole's The Mysterious Mother and Joanna Baillie's De Monfort. The other plays are Robert Southey's Wat Tyler, Elizabeth Inchbald's Lovers' Vows, and Lord Byron's Two Foscari.

BALDICK, Chris, Ed. The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. 1449].

BALDICK, Chris & Robert MORRISON, Eds. Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.

________. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. Fourteen tales by Polidori and others including Hogg, Le Fanu, Letitia Landon, Bulwer-Lytton, and William Carleton. An appendix prints Byron's prose fragment "Augustus Darvell."

BANTA, Martha, Ed. Four Classic Thrillers: From the Masters of Gothic Fiction. New York: Bantam Books, 1996.

BENDIXEN, Alfred, Ed. Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers. 1450].

BISSETT, Alan, Ed. Damage Land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2001. Contents: 'The dead can sing': an introduction / Alan Bissett; The Host / Brian McCabe; Letters from a Well-Wisher / Helen Lamb; Like a Pendulum in Glue / Toni Davidson; Meat / Laura Hird; Gothic / Ali Smith; A Hole with Two Ends / Michel Faber; You are here / Maggie O'Farrell; The Woman with Fork and Knife Disorder / Jackie Kay; Serving the Regent / Andrew Murray Scott; Lana / Alison Armstrong; Mouse / James Robertson; Mazzard's Coop / Dilys Rose; Dream Lover / Magi Gibson; Kiss of Life / Linda Cracknell; At the Time / Sophie Cooke; The Land of Urd / Chris Dolan -- Stifelio / Christopher Whyte;-- The House Outside the Kitchen / Raymond Soltysek; The Final Weight of all that Disappears / John Burnside; Mons Meg: A Fluid Fairytale / Janice Galloway.

BLEILER, E. F., Ed. Five Victorian Ghost Novels. New York: Dover Publishing, 1971.

________., Ed. A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories. New York: Scribner, 1981.

BROWNWORTH, Victoria A. & Judith M. REDDING, Eds. Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women. Seattle, WA: Seal Press; Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West, 1999. The 17 short stories take place in everyday settings--contemporary houses, a bar, a veterinary hospital.Yet in this collection, the familiar is subverted. This follow-up to the anthology features stories of the supernatural, all but one of which (Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman's "Luella Miller," 1903) are by contemporary authors. As the subtitle suggests, many of these stories have a feminist slant. One, Jean Stewart's "Feeding the Dark," has a strong anti-male, pro-lesbian theme, but this extremist view is not prevalent in most of the collection. Several selections, such as Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse's "Femme Coverte" and Lisa D. Williamson's "Existential Housewife," show the difficulties faced by women as the result of society's restrictions and expectations. Others, like Joanne Dahme's "Creepers" and Victoria A. Brownworth's "Day of the Dead," are wonderfully scary stories. Toni Brown's "The Acolyte" gives a neat twist to the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. For the most part, this is an excellent anthology of well-written stories, many of which would appeal to readers of either sex.--Patricia Altner, Information Seekers, Bowie, MD Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

CAIN, Stephen, Ed. Antipodean Tales: Stories from the Dark Side. Wellington, NZ: Ê IPL Books, 1996.

COX, Jeffrey, Ed. Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789-1825. {GGII: 0638].

COX, Michael, Ed. Twelve Tales of the Supernatural. Oxford UP, 1997. Includes stories by Le Fanu, Mrs. Riddell, W.W. Jacobs, and A.N. Munby. Scheduled for publication in December 1997.

________. M. R. James. 'Casting the Runes' and Other Ghost Stories. Oxford & New York: Oxford UP, 1999. Contains 21 stories including "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad," "Casting the Runes," "The Uncommon Prayer Book," and "Rats."

COX, Michael & R. A. GILBERT, Eds. Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology. 1451].

A GOTHIC Treasury of the Supernatural; The Castle of Otranto, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Grammercy, 1995.

COX, Jeffrey, Ed. Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789-1825. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1994. Paperback reprint of the original anthology. Includes Lewis's The Castle Spectre.

COX, Michael, Ed. Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories. Oxford UP, 1997. Includes tales by Henry James, Le Fanu, Amelia Edwards, Vincent O'Sullivan, Rhoda Broughton, and Margaret Oliphant.

CROW, Charles, Ed.. American Gothic: An Anthology, 1787-1916. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. This anthology is timely and well-selected. As the short Introduction states: in America, the Gothic "has been used by talented artists to explore serious issues. . . . American writers understood, quite early, that the Gothic offered a way to explore areas otherwise denied them. The Gothic is a literature of opposition." Contents: "Abraham Panther'; "An Account of a Beautiful Young Lady"; Charles Brockden Brown, "Somnambulism"; Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"; John Neal, "Idiosyncrasies"; George Lippard, from The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"; James Fenimore Cooper, from The Prairie; Henry Clay Lewis, "A Struggle for Life"; Edgar Allan Poe, "Hop-Frog"; "The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"; "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Raven"; "The City in the Sea"; "Ulalume"; "Annabel Lee"; "Dream-Land"; Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Alice Doane's Appeal"; "Young Goodman Brown"; Herman Melville, "The Bell-Tower"; Alice Cary, "The Wildermings"; Louisa May Alcott, "Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power"; Harriet Prescott Spofford, "The Amber Gods"; Emily Dickinson,"Through lane it lay -- through bramble"; "Tis so appalling -- it exhilarates"; "'Twas like a MaelstrÖm, with a notch"; "The Soul Has Bandaged Moments"; "Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth"; "One need not be a Chamber -- to be haunted"; "What mystery pervades a well!"; "In Winter in my Room"; Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain], from Life on the Mississippi; Sarah Orne Jewett, "The Foreigner"; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "Old Woman Magoun"; "Luella Miller"; Henry James, The Turn of the Screw; Kate Chopin, "Desiree's Baby"; Charles W. Chesnutt, "Po' Sandy"; "The Sheriff's Children"; George Washington Cable, "Jean-Ah Poquelin"; Stephen Crane, "The Monster"; Ambrose Bierce, "The Death of Halpin Frayser"; Frank Norris, "Lauth"; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Giant Wisteria"; Paul Laurence Dunbar, "from The Sport of the Gods; Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Luke Havergal"; "Lisette and Eileen"; "The Dark House"; The Mill"; "Souvenir"; "Why He Was There"; Lafcadio Hearn, "The Ghostly Kiss"; Edith Wharton, "The Eyes"; Jack London, "Samuel." Has a Bibliography and an Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines.

CUDDON, J. A. The Penguin Book of Horror Stories. Baltimore: Penguin, 1984.

DALBY, Richard, Ed. Twelve Gothic Tales. London & New York: Oxford UP, 1998. Richard Dalby. Contains "Leixlip Castle by Charles R. Maturin, "The Dream" by Mary Shelley, "Metzengerstein" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Master Sacristan Eberhart" by Sabine Baring-Gould, "Dickon the Devil" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Secret of the Growing gold" by Bram Stoker, "In Kropfsberg Keep" by Ralph Adams Cram "The Dead Smile" by F. Marion Crawford, "By One, by Two, and by Three" by Stephen Hall, "The Buckross Ring" by L.A.G. Strong , "The Knocker at the Portico" by Basil Copper, "The Entrance" by Gerald Durrell. Dalby's two-page introduction is an unpretentious minihistory of the form. "The phrase 'Gothic fiction' immediately conjures up a vision of wild desolate landscapes, haunted abbeys, windswept graveyards, and ancient grand houses with secret rooms, treacherous stairways, creepy vaults--and purple passages--all essential ingredients in antiquarian tales of the macabre, fantastic, and supernatural."

DAVIES, J. M. Q., Ed. German Tales of Fantasy, Horror, and the Grotesque. Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire, 1987.

FAYOT, AndrÉ, Ed. Le Revenant et autres contes de terreur du Blackwood Magazine. Paris: JosÉ Corti, 1999. [The Revenant and other tales of terror from Blackwood Magazine]. A collection of Gothic tales published in Blackwood between 1817 and 1832.

FRANCESCHINA, John, Ed.. Sisters of Gore: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. Seven stage plays by nineteenth century women melodramatists.

GRAY, Jennie, Ed. Best of The Goth, Vol 2, March 1992-June 1993. Chislehurst, UK: Gargoyle's Head, 1995.

GREEN, Mary, Ed. Gothic Tales. Dunstable, UK: Folens, 2000.

HAINING, Peter, Ed. The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies. 2171].

________., Ed. Gothic Tales of Terror: Classic Horror Stories from Great Britain, Europe, and the United States, 1765-1840. 1085].

________. The Shilling Shockers: Stories of Terror from the Gothic Bluebooks. 1086].

________. The Penny Dreadful; or Strange, Horrid, & Sensational Tales. 2175].

________., Ed. Tales from the Gothic Bluebooks. Chislehurst, Kent , UK: Gothic Society at the Gargoyle's Head Press, 1995.

JOAQUIN, Nick, Ed. Tropical Gothic. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1972. Story content: Candido's Apocalypse; Dona Jeronima; The Legend of the Dying Wanton; May Day Eve; The Summer Solstice; Guardia de Honor; The Mass of St. Sylvestre; The Woman Who Had Two Navels; The Order of Melkizedek.

KELLY, Gary, Ed. Varieties of Female Gothic. London: Chatto & Windus. Scheduled for publication 01 November 2001. Volume 1; street Gothic. Sophia Lee, The Recess. Volume 2; terror Gothic, the work of Mary Butt. Volume 3; Clara Reeve, The Old English Baron and The Champion of Virtue. Volume 4; erotic Gothic, Charlotte Dacre, The Libertine. Volume 5; historical Gothic, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs. Volume 6; orientalist Gothic, Sydney Owenson, Luxima, the Prophetess.

KESSLER, Joan C., Ed. Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

KLEIN, Victor C., Ed. Soul Shadows. [data]: Lycanthrope Press,1996. A pastiche of stories, biographies, poems, etc. that deal with two salient existential themes: death and alienation. Contained within the book's pages are stories about real vampires (Elizabeth Bathory and Gilles De Rais) with bibliographies; Gothic horror; a serial killer's genesis; various beasts; uncertainty and dread. The work is a revelation about the dark side of humanity's quest for meaning. Klein's Soul Shadows is rapidly becoming a cult classic that along with his other works will reshape the history of the world for the next millennium.

LUNDIE, Catherine A., Ed. Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926. Amherst, MA: Massachusetts UP, 1996.

MC GRATH, Patrick & Bradford MORROW, Eds. The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction. 1453].

MILIUTENKO, Elena, Ed. Russian Nineteenth Century Gothic Tales. Moscow: Raduga, 1994.

OATES, Joyce Carol, Ed. American Gothic Tales. Plume/Penguin, 1996. Forty-six tales covering the American Gothic spectrum from Charles Brockden Brown to such moderns as Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Ann Rice, and Harlan Ellison. In a perceptive introduction, Oates finds that the essence of American Gothic involves "assaults upon individual autonomy and identity." The cover has Albert Pinkham Ryder's The Race Track.

SEON, Manley & Gogo LEWIS. Ladies of the Gothic: Tales of Romance and Terror Told by the Gentle Sex. 2187].

SHELBY, Eugene F., Ed. Gothic Alaskan and Other Stories:ÊBad Horror from the Dark Subcontinent. foreword by B. J. Shelby. n.p. : iUniverse.com, 2000.

SIMPSON, Lewis P., Ed. 3 by 3: Masterworks of the Southern Gothic. 1454].

SINGER, Kurt D., Ed. Kurt Singer's Gothic Horror Book. London & New York: W. H. Allen, 1974. Contains Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," Conrad's J. Amy Foster.--Kipling, R. They.--Le Fanu, J. S. Green tea.--Goldin, S. For services rendered.--Tuttle, G. B. The roc raid.--Verrill, A. H. The plague of the living dead.--Ernst, P. The duel of the sorcerers.--Quinn, S. The cloth of madness.--Kipling, R. The phantom 'rickshaw.

SKARDA, Patricia L. & Nora Crow JAFFE., Eds. The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction. 1094].

SPECTOR, Robert D., Ed. Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror. 1096].

________., Ed. The Candle and the Tower. 1455].

SULLIVAN, Jack, Ed. Lost Souls: A Collection of English Ghost Stories.1458].

SUMMERS, Montague, Ed. The Supernatural Omnibus, Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goetry, Possession, Occult Doom and Destiny. London: Victor Gollancz, 1931; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1932.

________., Ed. Victorian Ghost Stories. London: Fortune Press, 1934.

________., Ed. The Grimoire and Other Supernatural Stories. London: Fortune Press, 1936.

A TREASURY of Gothic and Supernatural New York: Avenel/Crown, 1981.

TERRY, Elizabeth & Terri HARDIN, Eds. American Gothic:ÊTales from the Dark Heart of the Country. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1997.

THOMPSON, G. R., Ed. Romantic Gothic Tales, 1790-1840. 0190].

TROTT, Nicola, Ed. Gothic Novels: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. 900 pages of Gothic fiction supplemented by reviews, headnotes and introductions. Presents six key texts spanning the evolution of the Gothic genre: Walpole's Castle of Otranto, Reeve's Old English Baron, Beckford's Vathek, Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Maturin's "Tale of the Spaniard" from Melmoth the Wanderer. Since the anthology is designed for undergraduate courses, the omission of Lewis's Monk (or at least excerpts from it) is a marked flaw.

VARMA, Devendra P., Ed. Voices from the Vaults: Authentic Tales of Vampires and Ghosts. 1459].

WAGENKNECHT, Edward, Ed. Six Novels of the Supernatural. 2195].

WEBB, Wendy & Charles L. GRANT, Eds. Gothic Ghosts. New York: Tor Books, 1997. The collection contains especially fine Gothic tales by Brian Stableford ("Seers"); Matthew J. Costello ("Unexpected Attraction"); and Russell J. Handelman ("And the City Unfamiliar." The other stories are: "Nuestra Senora" (Carrie Richerson); "A Mirror for Eyes of Winter" (Jessica Amanda Salmonson); "In the Clearing" (Brad Strickland); "Cinder Child" (Stuart Palmer); "The Place of Memories" (Thomas S. Roche); "The Heart is a Determined Hunter" (Thomas Smith); "Worst Fears" (Rick Hautala); "The Willcroft Inheritance" (Paul Collins & Rick Kennet); "Mi Casa" (Kathryn Ptacek); "Syngamy" (Nancy Holder); "Haunted by the Living (Opelike, 1928)" (Thomas E. Fuller); "Dust Motes" (P.D. Cacek); "Spectral Line" (Robert E. Vardeman); "Won't You Take Me Dancing?" (Esther M. Friesner); "Visitation" (Lucy Taylor); "Victorians" (James S. Dorr). From Kirkus Reviews , August 15, 1997: "Anthology of 19 new ghostly tales, although few whomp up any sort of gothic atmosphere or induce shivers. The more effective tales: Brian Stableford's"Seers," about an old woman imprisoned by the ghosts she sees even though they can't physically affect her; "Unexpected Attraction," a rather waggish tale of a duped lover gaining his revenge upon a conniving ghost; and the one genuinely haunting piece here, Russell J. Handelman's "And the City Unfamiliar," about the motives and perceptions of a ghost who, pathetically, doesn't realize that he is a ghost. Elsewhere the offerings are more or less standard."

WETZEL, George T., Ed. Gothic Horror and Other Weird Tales. 1460].

WHEATLEY, Dennis, Ed. A Century of Horror Stories. London: Hutchinson, 1935.

WISCHHUSEN, Stephen, Ed. The Hour of One: Six Gothic Melodramas. 1082]

WILLIAMSON, J. N., Ed. Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural. 1461].

WISE, Herbert A. & Phyllis FRASER. Eds. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural. 1100].

WOLF, Jack C. & Barbara H. WOLF, Eds. Tales of the Occult. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1975.

WOLF, Leonard, Ed. Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction.. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. The anthology includes vampiretales by such modern writers as Anne Rice, Edith Wharton, August Derleth, John Cheever, Ray Bradbury, and Stephen King.