Excellent...chills the blood of the toughest reader. The parade of great names from Goethe to Poe testifies to the quality of the writing - Sunday Times Introduction (Gothic Tales of Terror: Volume Two; Classic Horror Stories from Europe and the United States) • (1972) • essay by Peter Haining The New Melusina • (1816) • novelette by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Die neue Melusine) [as by Johann von Goethe] The Ghost-Seer, or The Apparitionist • non-genre • [Der Geisterseher • 1] • (1972) • novel by Friedrich von Schiller (trans. of Der Geisterseher 1789) [as by J. F. von Schiller] The Harp • (1811) • short story by Karl Theodor Körner (trans. of Die Harfe) The Wild Huntsman! Or The Demon's Skeleton Chase • [Baron Munchausen / Münchhausen] • (1972) • short fiction by Gottfried August Bürger (trans. of Der wilde Jäger? 1786) [as by Gottfried August Burger] The Bride of the Grave • (1972) • novelette by Ernst Raupach (trans. of Laßt die Todten ruhen? 1822) [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck (in error)] The Field of Terror • (1972) • short story by Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué? (trans. of Das Schauerfeld 1814) [as by Baron de La Motte Fouqué] The Bottle-Imp • (1972) • novelette by Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué? (trans. of Das Galgenmännlein? 1814) [as by Johann Karl August Musäus (in error)?] The Spectre Barber • (1972) • novella by Johann Karl August Musäus (trans. of Stumme Liebe 1782) [as by Anonymous] The Cremona Violin • (1946) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Rath Krespel 1818) The Fatal Marksman • (1972) • short story by A. Apel (trans. of Der Freischütz? 1810) [as by Johann August Apel] The Devil's Ladder • (1972) • short story by Alois Wilhelm Schreiber (trans. of Die Teufelsleiter 1829) The Hall of Blood • (1972) • short story by Julia Pardoe (variant of The Hall of Blood: A Hungarian Tradition 1844) [as by Professor von Kramer (in error)] The Witch of Eye • (1972) • short story by Henry Neele [as by Francois Baculard d'Arnaud (in error)] The Unholy Compact Abjured • (1825) • short story by uncredited (variant of The Heroism of Love 1826) [as by Charles Pigault-Lebrun] The Wandering Jew's Sentence • (1972) • short story by Eugène Sue? The Parracide Punished • (unknown) • short story by Anonymous Louise, or Living Spectre • (unknown) • short story by Anonymous Jan Schalken's Three Wishes • (1972) • short story by H. S. Van Dyk [as by Anonymous] Maredata and Giulio, or The Ocean Spirit • (1972) • short story by N. G. (variant of Maredata 1824) [as by Anonymous] Valdrwulf, or The Fiend of the Moor • (unknown) • short story by J. Fitzgerald Pennie [as by Anonymous] Rip Van Winkle • (unknown) • short story by Legend Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist • (1803) • novella by Charles Brockden Brown The Adventure of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving The Christmas Banquet • (1843) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Strange Guests • (1837) • short story by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (variant of The Two Ghosts, or Hospitality Rewarded 1825) [as by Anonymous] Hugues, the Wer-Wolf • (1838) • short story by Sutherland Menzies The Possessed One • (1972) • short story by uncredited [as by Anonymous] Ben Blower's Story • (1842) • short story by Charles Hoffman The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe Shadow—A Parable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Shadow: A Fable 1835)