| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A Note on the Text | p. 11 |
| Fear, Terror, and the Supernatural | p. 13 |
| On the Words for "Fear" in Certain Languages: A Study in Linguistic Psychology | p. 13 |
| Excerpt from On the Sublime and Beautiful | p. 18 |
| On the Pleasure of Writing Dismal Stories, Exciting Surprize and Horror | p. 22 |
| Excerpt from "The Prodigal and His Brother" | p. 25 |
| The Dread of the Supernatural The Spectator | p. 27 |
| Gothic Horror | p. 31 |
| The Gothics and Their Successors | p. 37 |
| Excerpt from The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction | p. 37 |
| Excerpt from "On Gothic Superstition" | p. 41 |
| Excerpt from a Review of Literary Hours | p. 47 |
| Introductory Dialogue to Tales of Terror | p. 50 |
| Excerpt from "The Revival of Romance" | p. 53 |
| The School of Terror | p. 58 |
| Fiction in the Romantic Movement | p. 59 |
| Excerpt from "Mrs. Ann Radcliffe" | p. 60 |
| Excerpt from "Fragments of an Unpublished Manuscript" | p. 65 |
| Letter to William Godwin | p. 66 |
| Introduction to Ghost Stories | p. 67 |
| A Tale for a Chimney-Corner | p. 68 |
| Excerpt from "A Letter from Geneva" | p. 77 |
| Remarks on Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus | p. 79 |
| Excerpt from a Review of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus | p. 93 |
| Excerpt from a Review of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus | p. 94 |
| Review of Presumption; or the Fate of Frankenstein | p. 97 |
| Excerpt from "Mrs. Shelley" | p. 99 |
| Letter Denying Authorship of The Vampire | p. 103 |
| Excerpt from "Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell" | p. 105 |
| Poe and His Successors | p. 108 |
| Excerpt from "Later German Romanticism" | p. 108 |
| The Origins of Hawthorne and Poe | p. 110 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | p. 122 |
| Excerpt from "Edgar Allan Poe" | p. 126 |
| Review of The Raven and Other Poems | p. 129 |
| Poe: Lack of Substance | p. 132 |
| Poe's Fixing of the Short-Story Form | p. 138 |
| Fitz-James O'Brien | p. 144 |
| Excerpt from "The Mid-Century in America" | p. 145 |
| Maupassant and Poe | p. 148 |
| Advertisement for Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | p. 152 |
| Excerpt from "Ambrose Bierce: An Appraisal" | p. 152 |
| Bierce: Satire, Romance, Philosophy | p. 158 |
| Excerpt from "The Short Story" | p. 160 |
| Excerpt from "Concerning Irvin Cobb" | p. 161 |
| Monsters of the Gilded Age | p. 164 |
| The Physiology of "Penny Awfuls" | p. 164 |
| Review of The Purcell Papers by J. Sheridan Le Fanu | p. 182 |
| Excerpt from "Concerning Tea" | p. 183 |
| Excerpt from "The New Gallery" | p. 185 |
| The Religion of Robert Louis Stevenson | p. 187 |
| Review of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | p. 194 |
| Excerpt from "Novelists' Law" | p. 195 |
| The Secret Out | p. 196 |
| Excerpt from "Richard Mansfield" | p. 199 |
| Excerpt from "R. L. Stevenson" | p. 200 |
| Excerpt from "Our Library List" | p. 200 |
| Review of Dracula | p. 201 |
| Supped Full with Horrors | p. 202 |
| Review of Dracula | p. 204 |
| Excerpt from "Open Questions: Talks with Correspondents" | p. 204 |
| Excerpt from Human Sexuality | p. 205 |
| Letter to Julian Hawthorne | p. 206 |
| Excerpt from Modern Vampirism | p. 207 |
| Frankenstein | p. 208 |
| Fin de Siecle Science, Detection, and Terror | p. 209 |
| Excerpt from "Fictions of the Future" | p. 209 |
| Review of The Island of Dr. Moreau | p. 211 |
| Review of The Invisible Man | p. 214 |
| Excerpt from "Love, War and Pseudo-science" | p. 215 |
| Mr. Wells's War of the Worlds | p. 215 |
| Review of The War of the Worlds | p. 218 |
| Excerpt from The Technique of the Mystery Story | p. 219 |
| Review of My Friend the Murderer | p. 220 |
| Excerpt from "Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles" | p. 221 |
| Curiosity and Horror in the Theatre | p. 223 |
| Review of The Three Imposters | p. 227 |
| Review of The Great God Pan | p. 228 |
| The Gospel of Intensity | p. 230 |
| Excerpt from "Oscar Wilde" | p. 255 |
| Art and Luxury | p. 257 |
| Ghosts and Kindred Horrors | p. 265 |
| Excerpt from "A Study of Individual Psychology" | p. 265 |
| The Value of the Supernatural in Fiction | p. 267 |
| Some Japanese Bogie-Books | p. 279 |
| Ghost Stories | p. 292 |
| Excerpt from "Books of the Christmas Season" | p. 294 |
| Two Volumes from Henry James | p. 295 |
| Excerpt from "Gillette" | p. 297 |
| Excerpt from "Chronicle and Comment" | p. 299 |
| Review of The King in Yellow | p. 300 |
| Review of The Wind in the Rose Bush | p. 300 |
| Mr. Morris's "The Footprint" | p. 301 |
| Algernon Blackwood-An Appreciation | p. 303 |
| Robert Hichens | p. 307 |
| The Creeps | p. 324 |
| The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction | p. 329 |
| Toward a Horror Genre | p. 337 |
| The Supernatural in Fiction | p. 337 |
| The Abuse of the Supernatural in Fiction | p. 342 |
| Review of The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction | p. 350 |
| Excerpt from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction | p. 356 |
| Timeline of Major Works of Horror | p. 367 |
| Index | p. 369 |
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