Introduction -- The locked room upstairs / Celia Fremlin -- The long corridor of time / Ruth Rendell -- The shadows on the wall / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- The haunted palace / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- The housekeeper's story / Emily Brontë -- The haunted chamber / An Radcliffe -- Novels, Gothic novels / Jane Austen -- The dream / Mary Shelley -- The mount of sorrow / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- The sailor boy's tale / Isak Dinesen -- Biographical notes
Notes
"Jacket illustration by Edward Gorey."--Bookjacket