The phantom of the opera : and other gothic tales.

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This classic collection features 25 tales shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre.In addition to the world-famous title novel, the anthology includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which launched the gothic novel craze, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen, Louisa May Alcott, E.T.A. Hoffmann, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and Vernon Lee.Contents:The Vampyre by John PolidoriThe Transformation by Mary ShelleyThe Sandman by E.T.A. HoffmanSomnambulism: A Frgament by Charles Brockden BrownThe Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace WalpoleMetzengerstein by Edgar Allan PoeRappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel HawthorneCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuOlalla by Robert Louis StevensonThe Withered Arm by Thomas HardyThe Abbot's Ghost, or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation by Louisa May AlcottMarsyas in Flanders by Vernon LeeThe Dead Smile by F. Marion CrawfordThe De Grabrooke Monument by Mrs. J. H. RiddellThe Family of a Vourdalak by Aleksey TolstoyThe Spider by Hanns Heinz EwersExecution by M.Y. HalidomThe Great God Pan by Arthur MachenThe House of Sounds by M.P. ShielThe Secret of the Growing Gold by Bram StokerIn the Court of the Dragon by Robert W. ChambersSister Maddelena by Ralph Adams CramThe Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton SmithThe Rats in the Walls by H.P. LovecraftThe Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux