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• 6 • Foreword: Horror Stories • essay by Fiona Sampson
• 12 • 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]
• Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus • [Frankenstein] • (1818) • novel by Mary Shelley
• 133 • A Fragment • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel 1819) [as by George Gordon, Lord Byron]
• 137 • The Vampyre • [Lord Ruthven] • (1970) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori (variant of The Vampyre: A Tale 1819) [as by John Polidori]
• 153 • Christabel • (1816) • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 170 • Prefaces to Tales of the Dead • essay by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson (variant of Preface (Tales of the Dead) 1813)
• 173 • The Family Portraits • novelette by A. Apel (trans. of Die Bilder der Ahnen 1805) [as by Johann August Apel]
• 195 • The Fated Hour • novelette by F. Laun (trans. of Die Verwandtschaft mit der Geisterwelt 1810) [as by Friedrich Laun]
• 207 • The Death's Head • novelette by F. Laun (trans. of Der Todtenkopf 1811) [as by Friedrich Laun]
• 217 • The Spectre-Barber • novella by
  Johann Karl August Musäus^?Johann Karl August Musaeus
  (trans. of Stumme Liebe 1782)
• 238 • On Ghosts • (1824) • essay by Mary Shelley
• 243 • Transformation • (1976) • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation 1830)
• 254 • The Mortal Immortal • (1833) • short story by Mary Shelley
• 264 • The Mourner • (1829) • novelette by Mary Shelley
• 277 • A Dirge • short fiction by Mary Shelley
• 278 • The Dream • (1831) • short story by Mary Shelley
• 287 • The Invisible Girl • non-genre • (1832) • short story by Mary Shelley
• 296 • The Pilgrims • (1837) • novelette by Mary Shelley
• 311 • The Heir of Mondolfo • (1877) • novelette by Mary Shelley
• 331 • The Last Man (excerpt from Vol.II: chapter IV-The End) • short fiction by Mary Shelley
• 468 • Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman • (1863) • short story by Mary Shelley