xi • General Introduction (The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry) • essay by Patricia L. Skarda and Nora Crow Jaffe
xxv • Critical Studies of the Gothic • essay by uncredited
2 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
11 • On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment • (1773) • short story by Anna Letitia Barbauld and John Aikin (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment) [as by Dr. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld]
18 • The Snow-Fiend • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe
20 • December's Eve, Abroad • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe
21 • December's Eve, At Home • (1826) • poem by Ann Radcliffe
23 • A Receipt for Writing a Novel • (1799) • poem by Mary Alcock
27 • Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine • (1796) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis
29 • Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green • (1801) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis
35 • "Christabel" • (1797) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (variant of Christabel 1816)
55 • Manfred: A Dramatic Poem • (1817) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron
94 • The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (1819) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori
110 • A Fragment of a Novel • (1819) • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel)
117 • Transformation • (1830) • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation)
133 • Isabella, or The Pot of Basil • (1820) • poem by John Keats
153 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
169 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
182 • Fall of the House of Usher• (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
199 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
212 • Rochester's Song to Jane Eyre • (unknown) • poem by Charlotte Brontë
214 • R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë
214 • Retrospection • (1835) • poem by Charlotte Brontë
215 • No Coward Soul Is Mine • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë
218 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
231 • Sister Helen • (1853) • poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
240 • Goblin Market • (1859) • poem by Christina Rossetti [as by Christina Georgina Rossetti]
256 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1869) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
285 • Perilous Play • (1869) • short story by Louisa May Alcott
298 • The Ghostly Rental • (1876) • novelette by Henry James
326 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by William Butler Yeats
331 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
346 • The Darkling Thrush • (1900) • poem by Thomas Hardy (variant of By the Century's Deathbed)
347 • A Wasted Illness • (1901) • poem by Thomas Hardy
350 • The Monster • non-genre • (1898) • novella by Stephen Crane
400 • The Mezzotint • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
411 • Arabesque: The Mouse • (1920) • short story by A. E. Coppard
419 • A Rose for Emily • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
429 • Clytie • (1941) • short story by Eudora Welty
442 • The River • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
458 • Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) • (1971) • poem by Anne Sexton
465 • Suffer the Little Children • (1972) • short story by Stephen King
476 • Suggestions for Further Reading in the Gothic Tradition • essay by uncredited