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Acknowledgements - Introduction - Chronology of Significant Horror andGhost Tales - EARLY ACCOUNTS - From 'The Man of the Crowd', from 'TheImp of the Perverse', 'The Philosophy of Composition', from 'Eureka',from 'Marginalia'; E.A.Poe - Preface to 'The House of the SevenGables'; N.Hawthorne - From 'The Renaissance'; W.Pater - From'Nightmare Touch'; L.Hearn - CLASSIC MODERN ACCOUNTS - From 'TheUncanny'; S.Freud - On Algernon Blackwood; H.Belloc - From'Supernatural Horror in Literature'; H.P.Lovercraft - From 'The Vampirein Literature'; M.Summers - Author's Note from 'The Devil Rides Out';D.Wheatley - On Horror Writers; R.Bloch - Symposium on H.P. Lovecraft;Los Angeles Science Fiction Society - From 'Danse Macabre', from 'AnInterview in Playboy, from 'An Evening at Billericay Public Library';S.King - On Stephen King; W.Strieber - On Horror and Subversion;C.Barker - CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ACCOUNTS - From 'Night Visitors';J.Briggs - From 'The Literature of Terror'; D.Punter - From 'TheFantastic'; T.Todorov - From 'Fantasy'; R.Jackson - On 'The VampireTapestry'; A.C.Francis - On 'The Haunting of Hill House'; J.Newman - OnEdgar Allan Poe; J.G.Kennedy - On Victorian Horror; M.Aguirre - OnAngela Carter; G.Wisker - On Sex and Horror; J.Nicholson - On Horrorand Censorship; S.Holland - On Horror and Religion; R.F.Geary -Recommended Reading - Index