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)
