Part 1 Beginnings: "Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken; "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland; "The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous; "Raymond - A Fragment (1799), "Juvenis"; "The Parricide Punished" (1799), Anonymous; "The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin" (1801), Anonymous; "The Vindictive Monk, or The Fatal Ring" (1802), Isaac Crookenden. Part 2 The 19th century: "The Astrologer's Prediction or the Maniac's Fate" (1826), Anonymous ; "Andreas Vesalius the Anatomist" (1833), Petrus Borel; "Lady Eltringham or The Castle of Ratcliffe Cross" (1836), J. Wadham; "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Edgar Allan Poe; "A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" (1839), Sheridan Le Fanu; "Rappacini's Daughter" (1844), Nathaniel Hawthorne; "Selina Sedilia" (1865), Bret Harte; "Jean-Ah Poquelin" (1875), George Washington Cable; "Olalla" (1885), Robert Louis Stevenson; "Barbara of the House of Grebe" (1891), Thomas Hardy; "Bloody Blanche" (1892), Marcel Schwob; "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892), Charlotte Perkins Stetson; "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle; "Hurst of Hurstcote" (1893), E. Nesbit. Part 3 The 20th century: "A Vine on the House" (1905), Ambrose Bierce; "Jordan's End" (1923), Ellen Glasgow; "The Outsider" (1926), H.P. Lovecraft; "A Rose for Emily" (1930), William Faulkner; "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" (1931), Clark Ashton Smith; "The Monkey" (1934), Isak Dinesen; "Miss De Mannering of Asham" (1935), F.M. Mayor; "The Vampire of Kaldenstein" (1938), Frederick Cowles; "Clytie" (1941), Eudora Welty; "Sardonicus" (1961), Ray Russell; "The Bloody Countess" (1968), Alejandra Pizarnik; "The Gospel According to Mark" (1970), Jorge Luis Borges; "The Lady of the House of Love" (1979), Angela Carter; "Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl" (1988), Joyce Carol Oates; "Blood Disease" (1988), Patrick McGrath; "If You Touched My Heart" (1991), Isabel Allende.
