| Acknowledgements | p. xi |
| Note on the text | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Supernaturalism: religion, folklore, Shakespeare | p. 5 |
| A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal (1706) | p. 5 |
| The Spectator, Nos. 12 and 110 (1711) | p. 13 |
| 'A Night Piece on Death' (1721) | p. 19 |
| 'William and Margaret' (1724) | p. 21 |
| 'Political Vampyres' (1732) | p. 24 |
| On the Cock Lane ghost (1762) | p. 26 |
| 'Narrative drawn up by Mr John Wesley' (1784) | p. 27 |
| The Example of Shakespeare | p. 30 |
| The Entertainer (1754) | p. 30 |
| 'On the Praeternatural Beings' (1769) | p. 32 |
| 'An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland' (1749-50) | p. 41 |
| Gothic origins | p. 48 |
| Germania (trans. 1777) | p. 48 |
| Liberty (1734-6) | p. 54 |
| Common Sense (1739) | p. 60 |
| 'Spirit of the Laws' (trans. 1750) | p. 61 |
| The Fool of Quality (1765) | p. 65 |
| Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) | p. 67 |
| 'The History of English Poetry' (1778) | p. 78 |
| A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, The Son of Fingal (1763) | p. 79 |
| The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1770-4) | p. 84 |
| On Fable and Romance (1783) | p. 88 |
| A Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths (1787) | p. 93 |
| 'The Gothic Mind' and 'Gothic Literature and Art' (1818) | p. 94 |
| The Gothic aesthetic: imagination, originality, terror | p. 99 |
| 'Of Heroique Playes' (1670) | p. 99 |
| The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (1704) | p. 100 |
| The Spectator, No. 419 (1712) | p. 104 |
| Garrick's performance of the ghost scenes in Hamlet (1776) | p. 107 |
| 'Ode to Fear' (1746) | p. 109 |
| A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) | p. 112 |
| Originality | p. 121 |
| Conjectures on Original Composition (1759) | p. 121 |
| Preface to The Castle of Otranto (1765) | p. 122 |
| An Essay on Original Genius (1767) | p. 124 |
| 'On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment' (1773) | p. 127 |
| Preface to The Old English Baron (1778) | p. 132 |
| 'Account of the German theatre' (1790) | p. 135 |
| Odes and the Taste for Terror | p. 136 |
| 'To Horror' (1791) | p. 137 |
| 'Ode to Terror' (1792) | p. 139 |
| 'To Horror' (1804) | p. 142 |
| 'Ode to H. Fuseli, Esq., R.A., On Seeing Engravings from his Designs' (1807) | p. 143 |
| Burger, Lenore (1796) | p. 146 |
| 'On Gothic Superstition' and 'On Objects of Terror' (1798) | p. 154 |
| 'On the Supernatural in Poetry' (1826) | p. 163 |
| Anti-Gothic | p. 173 |
| Ars Poetica (trans. 1709) | p. 173 |
| Novel Versus Romance | p. 175 |
| The Rambler, No. 4 (1750) | p. 175 |
| The Progress of Romance, Through Times, Countries, and Manners (1785) | p. 179 |
| Tampering with History: The Response to Sophia Lee's the Recess (1785) | p. 180 |
| 'Advertisement' to The Recess (1785) | p. 180 |
| Review of The Recess (1786) | p. 181 |
| Plexippus (1790) | p. 181 |
| 'Terrorist Novel Writing' (1798) | p. 182 |
| The Monk Affair | p. 185 |
| Review of The Monk (1797) | p. 185 |
| The Pursuits of Literature (1798) | p. 189 |
| 'A Friend to Genius', 'An Apology for The Monk' (1797) | p. 191 |
| Gothic Drama | p. 196 |
| Reviews of Harriet Lee, The Mysterious Marriage (1798) | p. 197 |
| Postscript to The Castle Spectre (1798) | p. 198 |
| 'Academicus', 'On the Absurdities of the Modern Stage' (1800) | p. 199 |
| Parodies | p. 201 |
| Azemia (1797) | p. 202 |
| The Heroine (1813) | p. 204 |
| 'On the Good Effects of Bad Novels' (1798) | p. 207 |
| 'On Novels and Romances' (1802) | p. 210 |
| 'Rimelli', 'Novels and Romances' (1802) | p. 218 |
| The History of Fiction (1814) | p. 219 |
| Gothic and revolution | p. 223 |
| 'Demophilius', The Genuine Principles of the Ancient Saxons, or English Constitution (1776) | p. 223 |
| Report of the Committee of the Revolution Society (1789) | p. 226 |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) | p. 228 |
| A Sicilian Romance (1790) | p. 235 |
| A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) | p. 236 |
| The Rights of Man (1790-2) | p. 241 |
| Letters on the Revolution in France (1791) | p. 244 |
| 'Of the Nature of Government, and the Rights of Men and of Kings' (1791) | p. 246 |
| Argument on the French Revolution (1794) | p. 247 |
| Translator's Preface to Karl Grosse, Horrid Mysteries (1796) | p. 249 |
| The Rovers; or, the Double Arrangement (1798) | p. 254 |
| Review of W. H. Ireland, Rimualdo (1801) | p. 257 |
| Gothic renovations | p. 259 |
| William Godwin on Romance and Novel | p. 259 |
| 'On History and Romance' (1797) | p. 260 |
| Preface to Fleetwood (1805) | p. 265 |
| Morality of Fiction (1805) | p. 266 |
| Review of Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) | p. 267 |
| 'On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing' (1810) | p. 269 |
| Preface to The Milesian Chief (1812) | p. 271 |
| 'Chapter 1: Introductory,' Waverley (1814) | p. 273 |
| Biographia Literaria (1817) | p. 276 |
| The Supernaturalism of Everyday Life | p. 277 |
| 'Witches and Other Night Fears' (1821) | p. 277 |
| 'On Ghosts' (1824) | p. 280 |
| 'On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition' (1827) | p. 285 |
| 'The Age of Romance' (1837) | p. 287 |
| 'The Historical Romance' (1845) | p. 292 |
| Bibliography | p. 298 |
| Index | p. 303 |
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