Ghosts, Castles and Victims: Tales of Gothic Horror edited by Jack & Barbara Wolf [1974 PAPERBACK]

Ghosts, Castles and Victims: Tales and Studies of Gothic Horror edited by Jack C Wolf & Barbara H. Wolf 

FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK [1974] FAWCETT CREST

Vintage paperback in very good condition; cover shows some wear and discoloration.  Binding is tight.  Pages read perfectly w/ some tanning. 

"There are more things twixt Heaven and Earth" than the light of day reveals. Here are marvelous, mind chilling tales of the macabre brought together in a superb collection of famous Gothic stories.

CONTENTS
Origins of Gothic in Literature • essay by Jack C. Wolf and Barbara H. Wolf
Setting • essay by Jack C. Wolf and Barbara H. Wolf
From The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story • shortfiction by Horace Walpole
From The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story • shortfiction by Clara Reeve
From Wuthering Heights • shortfiction by Emily Brontë
The Dead Planet • (1946) • shortstory by Edmond Hamilton
Human Threat • essay by Jack C. Wolf and Barbara H. Wolf
From The Monk • shortfiction by Matthew Gregory Lewis [as by Matthew G. Lewis ]
From The Romance of the Forest • shortfiction by Ann Radcliffe
The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
Supernatural Threat • essay by Jack C. Wolf and Barbara H. Wolf
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or, The House and the Brain • (1859) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (aka The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain) [as by E. Bulwer-Lytton ]
The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
From The House of the Seven Gables • shortfiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Signal-Man • (1866) • shortstory by Charles Dickens (aka The Signalman)
Human Monsters • essay by Jack C. Wolf and Barbara H. Wolf
From Dracula • [Dracula Excerpts] • (1897) • shortfiction by Bram Stoker
From Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus • (1818) • shortfiction by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley ]
From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • shortfiction by Robert Louis Stevenson
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • shortfiction by George W. M. Reynolds
From Melmoth the Wanderer • shortfiction by Charles Maturin [as by Robert Maturin ]
Monsters of Unknown Origin • essay by Jack C. Wolf and Barbara H. Wolf
From The War of the Worlds • [The War of the Worlds] • shortfiction by H. G. Wells
From Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book • shortfiction by M. R. James [as by Montague Rhodes James ]
What Was It? • (1859) • shortstory by Fitz-James O'Brien
From The Day of the Triffids • (1964) • shortfiction by John Wyndham
Psychological Threat • essay by Jack C. Wolf and Barbara H. Wolf
From The Turn of the Screw • shortfiction by Henry James
From Wieland • shortfiction by Charles Brockden Brown
Sredni Vashtar • (1910) • shortstory by Saki
The Yellow Wall Paper • (1892) • shortstory by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (aka The Yellow Wallpaper)
Unknown Threat • essay by Jack C. Wolf and Barbara H. Wolf
From The Willows • shortfiction by Algernon Blackwood
From The Horla • shortfiction by Guy de Maupassant
The Dead Valley • (1895) • shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram
From Beyond • (1920) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft