The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with i

The ring of fear traps a woman between a dangerous suitor and an unseen killer. The mark of Merlin haunts a young girl in a windswept New England manse. The Kil

Includes The Castle of Otranto, the first work of the Gothic genre; Vathek, the high point of the Oriental tale in English literature; TheVampyre, the first ful