A guided descent through the Gothic tradition, beginning with haunted places and psychological unease, moving through vampires and uncanny doubles, and culminating in the genre's most enduring monsters.
Included works:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) - The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) - The Haunted House (Charles Dickens) - The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) - The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M. R. James) - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder (William Hope Hodgson) - The Great God Pan (Arthur Machen) - The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliffe) - The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) - Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) - Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) - Dracula (Bram Stoker).
