Mary Shelley Horror Stories

Contents:- Foreword: Mary Shelley Horror Stories • essay by Fiona Sampson- Introduction to the 1831 Edition (Frankenstein) • essay by Mary Shelley (variant of Introduction (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) 1831)- Original Preface to the 1818 Edition (Frankenstein) • essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley (variant of Preface (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) 1818) [as by uncredited]- A Fragment • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel 1819) [as by George Gordon, Lord Byron]- The Vampyre • [Lord Ruthven] • (1970) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori (variant of The Vampyre: A Tale 1819) [as by John Polidori]- Christabel • (1816) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Prefaces to Tales of the Dead • essay by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson (variant of Preface (Tales of the Dead) 1813)- The Family Portraits • novelette by A. Apel (trans. of Die Bilder der Ahnen 1805) [as by Johann August Apel]- The Fated Hour • novelette by F. Laun (trans. of Die Verwandtschaft mit der Geisterwelt 1810) [as by Friedrich Laun]- The Death's Head • novelette by F. Laun (trans. of Der Todtenkopf 1811) [as by Friedrich Laun]- The Spectre-Barber • novella by Johann Karl August Musäus (trans. of Stumme Liebe 1782)