by Peter Haining, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Mary Shelley, Washington Irving, Thomas De Quincey, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, C.F. Hoffman, Lafcadio Hearn, Елена Петровна Блаватская, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aleister Crowley, H. G. Wells, Montague Rhodes James, Montague Summers, H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, John Gawsworth, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke
CONTENTS: Introduction. What hath light wrought? / by Isaac Asimov Visitation. The midnight embrace / by Matthew Lewis The Frankenstein theme. The transformation / by Mary Shelley Dream state. The…