The Forgotten Gothic: Short Stories from British Literary Annuals
Product Description
This astonishing collection of 95 rare Gothic tales from British Literary Annuals tales takes us further than perhaps eighteenth or nineteenth-century scholars are comfortable with– to the Gothic’s afterlife. Once touted as a literary “dead zone” –the Annuals of the1820s and 30s are unexpectedly populated with dozens of terrifying and horrific Gothic tales. A groundbreaking collection, Forgotten Gothic, illustrates the continued development of the Gothic genre even after its supposed death in 1820.
Edited by Katherine D. Harris
Table of Contents
List of Plates
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction
Forget Me Not
Anonymous, The Magic Mirror. A Polish Tale, FMN 1823, 133-153
Anonymous, The Ring; A True Narrative. From the Russian, FMN 1824, 107-125
Anonymous, The Grey Palmer: A Legend of Yorkshire, FMN 1824, 232-237
Anonymous,Pernicious Effects of Fortune-Telling, FMN 1824, 319-329
Jewsbury, Maria Jane [?],The Grave of the Suicide, FMN 1825, 219-230
White, Joseph Blanco, The Alcazar of Seville and the Tale of the Green Taper, FMN 1825, 31-54
Harral, Thomas, Days of Old, FMN 1826, 107-115
T., A.D. ,The Fairies’ Grot, FMN 1826, 119-135
A Traveller, The Lady of the Tower, FMN 1826, 166-177
Flora, Bolton Abbey, FMN 1826, 19-26
Anonymous, The Phantom Voice, FMN 1826, 317-337
Thomson, Richard, Saint Agnes’ Fountain. The Romance of a Finsbury Archer, FMN 1826, 350-378
Stafford, William Cooke, Woman’s Love, FMN 1826, 62-77
Hofland, Barbara ,The Regretted Ghost, FMN 1826, 79-101
Roby, John, The Haunted Manor-House, FMN 1827, 133-159
Roberts, Emma, Maximilian and his Daughter, FMN 1827, 219-226
Neele, Henry, The Comet, FMN 1827, 239-267
Shelley, Mary or Maria Jane Jewsbury [?], Lacy de Vere, FMN 1827, 275-294
Dods, Mary Diana, The Bridal Ornaments. A Legend of Thuringia., FMN 1827, 393-416
Dods, Mary Diana, The Three Damsels. A Tale of Halloween, FMN 1827, 79-86
Inglis, Henry, Kathed and Eurelia. A Bohemian Legend, FMN 1828, 237-243
Harral, Thomas, The House of Castelli, FMN 1828, 339-356
Roberts, Emma,The Halt on the Mountain, FMN 1828, 362-378
Neele, Henry, The Magician’s Visiter, FMN 1828, 91-98
Bird, John, The Cornet’s Widow, FMN 1829, 131-144
Neele, Henry, The Houri. A Persian Tale, FMN 1829, 165-178
Rosa, Giuseppe Guercino, FMN 1829, 193-208
Inglis, Henry D., The Musician of Augsburg, FMN 1829, 235-244
Hofland, Barbara,The Maid of the Beryl, FMN 1829, 253-267
Anonymous, The Magician of Vicenza, FMN 1829, 273-283
Bowdich, Sarah, Eliza Carthago, FMN 1829, 57-64
Shelley, Mary, The Euthanasia. A Story of Modern Greece, FMN 1829, 95-120
Beevor, M.L., St. Feinah’s Tree. A Legend of Loch Neagh, FMN 1830, 155-163
Moir, D.L., Kemp, The Bandit. A Legend of Castle Campbell, FMN 1830, 209-227
Richardson, David Lester,The Soldier’s Dream, FMN 1830, 234-237
Barker, Matthew Henry, Greenwich Hospital, FMN 1830, 241-255
Thompson, W. G. ,Fanny Lee, FMN 1830, 261-271
Thomson, Richard, The Antiquary and His Fetch. A Legend of the Strand, FMN 1830, 279-302
Bird, John, The Convent of St. Ursula, FMN 1830, 361-379
MacNish, Robert, The Red Man, FMN 1830, 49-65
Galt, John,The Omen, FMN 1830, 99-105
Thomson, Richard, The Haunted Hogshead. A Yankee Legend, FMN 1831, 145-154
Bird, John, The Haunted Chamber, FMN 1831, 279-300
Stone, William L., The Grave of the Indian King, FMN 1831, 101-118
Beevor, M.L., The Benshee of Shane. A Tradition of the North of Ireland, FMN 1831, 123-136
Hesketh, S. K., The Smuggler, FMN 1831, 165-182
McNaghten, Captain Sir William Hay, The Sacrifice. An Indian Tale, FMN 1831, 193-213
Moir, D.L., Bessy Bell and Mary Gray. A Scottish Legend of 1666, FMN 1831, 361-370
Chorley, H. F., The Elves of Caer-Gwyn, FMN 1831, 73-95
Friendship’s Offering
Anonymous, Lanucci. A Tale of the Thirteenth Century, FO 1825, 247-260
Anonymous, The Laughing Horseman. A Tale, FO 1826, 109-134
Anonymous ,Forgiveness. A Tale, FO 1826, 240-247
Ainsworth, William Harrison, Rosicrucian. A Tale, FO 1827, 38-63
Gillies, Robert Pearch, The Warning. A German Legend, FO 1829, 93-105
Inglis, Henry Rodolph, Rodolph, the Fratricide, FO 1830, 200-211
Inglis, Henry Rodolph, The Unholy Promise. A Norwegian Legend, FO 1831, 115-125
Kennedy, William, The Castle of St. Michael. A Tale, FO 1831, 159-178
The Keepsake
Shelley, Mary, Convent of Chaillot: or, Valliere and Louis XIV, KS 1828, 267-283
Ainsworth, William Harrison, The Ghost Laid, KS 1828, 286-300
Scott, Sir Walter, My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror, KS 1829, 1-44
Scott, Sir Walter, The Tapestried Chamber, or The Lady in the Sacque, KS 1829, 123-142
Shelley, Mary, Ferdinando Eboli. A Tale, KS 1829, 195-218
Shelley, Mary, The Sisters of Albano, KS 1829, 80-100
Shelley, Mary, The Evil Eye, KS 1830, 150-175
Shelley, Mary, The False Rhyme, KS 1830, 265-268
Shelley, Mary, The Mourner, KS 1830, 71-97
Shelley, Mary, Transformation, KS 1831, 18-39
The Literary Souvenir
Anonymous, The Golden Snuff-Box, LS 1825, 127-148
D., L. , New Year’s Eve. The Omens, LS 1825, 159-175
Maturin, Charles, Leixlip Castle. An Irish Family Legend, LS 1825, 211-232
Ainsworth, William Harrison, The Fortress of Saguntum, LS 1825, 259-263
Ainsworth, William Harrison, A Tradition of the Fortress of Saguntum, LS 1825, 264-282
Moir, D.L., The Old Manor-House, LS 1826, 181-200
Hogg, James, The Border Chronicler, LS 1826, 257-279
Roberts, Emma, Rosamunda. A Venetian Fragment, LS 1826, 305-312
Anonymous, The Diamond Watch, LS 1826, 53-74
Roberts, Emma ,The Bridal of St. Omer. A Tale, LS 1827, 145-163
Wilson, John, The Two Fathers, LS 1827, 19-27
Croker, Thomas Crofton, Clough Na Cuddy. A Killarney Legend, LS 1827, 233-243
Moir, D.L., Auld Robin Gray. The Original Story, LS 1827, 301-322
Galt, John, The Witch, LS 1827, 97-102
Griffin, Gerald, The Dilemma of Phadrig. A Tale of the Shannon Side, LS 1828, 3-19
Moir, D.L., The Pneumatologist, LS 1828, 325-334
Maginn, William, The City of the Demons, LS 1828, 73-84
Anonymous, The Sisters, LS 1829, 1-33
Maginn, William, A Vision of Purgatory, LS 1829, 228-246
Loundon, J.C., The Grotto of Akteleg. A Hungarian Legend, LS 1829, 330-343
Bulwer, Edward Lytton, A Manuscript found in a Madhouse, LS 1829, 56-66
Griffin, Gerald, The Rock of the Candle. A Tale of an Irish Ruin, LS 1829, 73-110
Grattan, Thomas Colley, The Love-Draught. A Tale of the Barrow-Side, LS 1830, 1-19
Galt, John, The Confession, LS 1830, 202-207
Howitt, William, Ithran the Demoniac, LS 1830, 289-306
Inglis, Henry, The City of the Desert, LS 1830, 64-71
Howitt, William, The Last of the Titans, LS 1831, 116-132
Anonymous, Lady Olivia’s Decamerone, LS 1831, 17-30
References & Works Cited
Appendix A: Comparison of Gothic Content in the Annuals
Appendix B: Chronological Index of British Literary Annual Titles
Appendix C: Other Literary Annual Contributions by Select Authors of Gothic Short Stories
Appendix D: Chronological Index of British Literary Annual Titles
* * * *
List of Plates
Forget Me Not; A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1826
Days of Old,
Woman’s Love
The Regretted Ghost
Forget Me Not; A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1829
Fathime and Euphrosyne
Vicenza
Forget Me Not; A Christmas, New Year’s, and Birth-Day Present for 1830
Greenwich Hospital
Forget Me Not; A Christmas, New Year’s, and Birth-Day Present for 1831
Bessy Bell and Mary May
Friendship’s Offering: A Literary Album, and Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1829
The Warning
Friendship’s Offering: A Literary Album, and Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1831
The Mountain Torrent
Friendship’s Offering. A Literary Album for 1826
The Laughing Horseman
The Literary Souvenir; or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance for 1825
Spain-Fortress of Saguntum
The Literary Souvenir; or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance for 1827
Auld Robin Gray
The Literary Souvenir for 1829
The Sisters
Minny O’Donnell’s Toilet
The Literary Souvenir for 1831
The Narrative
The Keepsake for 1828
The Convent of Chaillot, or La Valliere & Louis the XIV
The Ghost Laid
The Keepsake for 1829
The Magic Mirror
The Tapestried Chamber
Adelinda
Lake Albano
The Keepsake for 1830
Zella
Francis the First & His Sister
Virginia Water [1]
Virginia Water [2]
The Keepsake for 1831
Juliet
Edited by Katherine D. Harris
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction
Forget Me Not
Anonymous, The Magic Mirror. A Polish Tale, FMN 1823, 133-153
Anonymous, The Ring; A True Narrative. From the Russian, FMN 1824, 107-125
Anonymous, The Grey Palmer: A Legend of Yorkshire, FMN 1824, 232-237
Anonymous,Pernicious Effects of Fortune-Telling, FMN 1824, 319-329
Jewsbury, Maria Jane [?],The Grave of the Suicide, FMN 1825, 219-230
White, Joseph Blanco, The Alcazar of Seville and the Tale of the Green Taper, FMN 1825, 31-54
Harral, Thomas, Days of Old, FMN 1826, 107-115
T., A.D. ,The Fairies’ Grot, FMN 1826, 119-135
A Traveller, The Lady of the Tower, FMN 1826, 166-177
Flora, Bolton Abbey, FMN 1826, 19-26
Anonymous, The Phantom Voice, FMN 1826, 317-337
Thomson, Richard, Saint Agnes’ Fountain. The Romance of a Finsbury Archer, FMN 1826, 350-378
Stafford, William Cooke, Woman’s Love, FMN 1826, 62-77
Hofland, Barbara ,The Regretted Ghost, FMN 1826, 79-101
Roby, John, The Haunted Manor-House, FMN 1827, 133-159
Roberts, Emma, Maximilian and his Daughter, FMN 1827, 219-226
Neele, Henry, The Comet, FMN 1827, 239-267
Shelley, Mary or Maria Jane Jewsbury [?], Lacy de Vere, FMN 1827, 275-294
Dods, Mary Diana, The Bridal Ornaments. A Legend of Thuringia., FMN 1827, 393-416
Dods, Mary Diana, The Three Damsels. A Tale of Halloween, FMN 1827, 79-86
Inglis, Henry, Kathed and Eurelia. A Bohemian Legend, FMN 1828, 237-243
Harral, Thomas, The House of Castelli, FMN 1828, 339-356
Roberts, Emma,The Halt on the Mountain, FMN 1828, 362-378
Neele, Henry, The Magician’s Visiter, FMN 1828, 91-98
Bird, John, The Cornet’s Widow, FMN 1829, 131-144
Neele, Henry, The Houri. A Persian Tale, FMN 1829, 165-178
Rosa, Giuseppe Guercino, FMN 1829, 193-208
Inglis, Henry D., The Musician of Augsburg, FMN 1829, 235-244
Hofland, Barbara,The Maid of the Beryl, FMN 1829, 253-267
Anonymous, The Magician of Vicenza, FMN 1829, 273-283
Bowdich, Sarah, Eliza Carthago, FMN 1829, 57-64
Shelley, Mary, The Euthanasia. A Story of Modern Greece, FMN 1829, 95-120
Beevor, M.L., St. Feinah’s Tree. A Legend of Loch Neagh, FMN 1830, 155-163
Moir, D.L., Kemp, The Bandit. A Legend of Castle Campbell, FMN 1830, 209-227
Richardson, David Lester,The Soldier’s Dream, FMN 1830, 234-237
Barker, Matthew Henry, Greenwich Hospital, FMN 1830, 241-255
Thompson, W. G. ,Fanny Lee, FMN 1830, 261-271
Thomson, Richard, The Antiquary and His Fetch. A Legend of the Strand, FMN 1830, 279-302
Bird, John, The Convent of St. Ursula, FMN 1830, 361-379
MacNish, Robert, The Red Man, FMN 1830, 49-65
Galt, John,The Omen, FMN 1830, 99-105
Thomson, Richard, The Haunted Hogshead. A Yankee Legend, FMN 1831, 145-154
Bird, John, The Haunted Chamber, FMN 1831, 279-300
Stone, William L., The Grave of the Indian King, FMN 1831, 101-118
Beevor, M.L., The Benshee of Shane. A Tradition of the North of Ireland, FMN 1831, 123-136
Hesketh, S. K., The Smuggler, FMN 1831, 165-182
McNaghten, Captain Sir William Hay, The Sacrifice. An Indian Tale, FMN 1831, 193-213
Moir, D.L., Bessy Bell and Mary Gray. A Scottish Legend of 1666, FMN 1831, 361-370
Chorley, H. F., The Elves of Caer-Gwyn, FMN 1831, 73-95
Friendship’s Offering
Anonymous, Lanucci. A Tale of the Thirteenth Century, FO 1825, 247-260
Anonymous, The Laughing Horseman. A Tale, FO 1826, 109-134
Anonymous ,Forgiveness. A Tale, FO 1826, 240-247
Ainsworth, William Harrison, Rosicrucian. A Tale, FO 1827, 38-63
Gillies, Robert Pearch, The Warning. A German Legend, FO 1829, 93-105
Inglis, Henry Rodolph, Rodolph, the Fratricide, FO 1830, 200-211
Inglis, Henry Rodolph, The Unholy Promise. A Norwegian Legend, FO 1831, 115-125
Kennedy, William, The Castle of St. Michael. A Tale, FO 1831, 159-178
The Keepsake
Shelley, Mary, Convent of Chaillot: or, Valliere and Louis XIV, KS 1828, 267-283
Ainsworth, William Harrison, The Ghost Laid, KS 1828, 286-300
Scott, Sir Walter, My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror, KS 1829, 1-44
Scott, Sir Walter, The Tapestried Chamber, or The Lady in the Sacque, KS 1829, 123-142
Shelley, Mary, Ferdinando Eboli. A Tale, KS 1829, 195-218
Shelley, Mary, The Sisters of Albano, KS 1829, 80-100
Shelley, Mary, The Evil Eye, KS 1830, 150-175
Shelley, Mary, The False Rhyme, KS 1830, 265-268
Shelley, Mary, The Mourner, KS 1830, 71-97
Shelley, Mary, Transformation, KS 1831, 18-39
The Literary Souvenir
Anonymous, The Golden Snuff-Box, LS 1825, 127-148
D., L. , New Year’s Eve. The Omens, LS 1825, 159-175
Maturin, Charles, Leixlip Castle. An Irish Family Legend, LS 1825, 211-232
Ainsworth, William Harrison, The Fortress of Saguntum, LS 1825, 259-263
Ainsworth, William Harrison, A Tradition of the Fortress of Saguntum, LS 1825, 264-282
Moir, D.L., The Old Manor-House, LS 1826, 181-200
Hogg, James, The Border Chronicler, LS 1826, 257-279
Roberts, Emma, Rosamunda. A Venetian Fragment, LS 1826, 305-312
Anonymous, The Diamond Watch, LS 1826, 53-74
Roberts, Emma ,The Bridal of St. Omer. A Tale, LS 1827, 145-163
Wilson, John, The Two Fathers, LS 1827, 19-27
Croker, Thomas Crofton, Clough Na Cuddy. A Killarney Legend, LS 1827, 233-243
Moir, D.L., Auld Robin Gray. The Original Story, LS 1827, 301-322
Galt, John, The Witch, LS 1827, 97-102
Griffin, Gerald, The Dilemma of Phadrig. A Tale of the Shannon Side, LS 1828, 3-19
Moir, D.L., The Pneumatologist, LS 1828, 325-334
Maginn, William, The City of the Demons, LS 1828, 73-84
Anonymous, The Sisters, LS 1829, 1-33
Maginn, William, A Vision of Purgatory, LS 1829, 228-246
Loundon, J.C., The Grotto of Akteleg. A Hungarian Legend, LS 1829, 330-343
Bulwer, Edward Lytton, A Manuscript found in a Madhouse, LS 1829, 56-66
Griffin, Gerald, The Rock of the Candle. A Tale of an Irish Ruin, LS 1829, 73-110
Grattan, Thomas Colley, The Love-Draught. A Tale of the Barrow-Side, LS 1830, 1-19
Galt, John, The Confession, LS 1830, 202-207
Howitt, William, Ithran the Demoniac, LS 1830, 289-306
Inglis, Henry, The City of the Desert, LS 1830, 64-71
Howitt, William, The Last of the Titans, LS 1831, 116-132
Anonymous, Lady Olivia’s Decamerone, LS 1831, 17-30
References & Works Cited
Appendix A: Comparison of Gothic Content in the Annuals
Appendix B: Chronological Index of British Literary Annual Titles
Appendix C: Other Literary Annual Contributions by Select Authors of Gothic Short Stories
Appendix D: Chronological Index of British Literary Annual Titles
* * * *
List of Plates
Forget Me Not; A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1826
Days of Old,
Woman’s Love
The Regretted Ghost
Forget Me Not; A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1829
Fathime and Euphrosyne
Vicenza
Forget Me Not; A Christmas, New Year’s, and Birth-Day Present for 1830
Greenwich Hospital
Forget Me Not; A Christmas, New Year’s, and Birth-Day Present for 1831
Bessy Bell and Mary May
Friendship’s Offering: A Literary Album, and Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1829
The Warning
Friendship’s Offering: A Literary Album, and Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1831
The Mountain Torrent
Friendship’s Offering. A Literary Album for 1826
The Laughing Horseman
The Literary Souvenir; or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance for 1825
Spain-Fortress of Saguntum
The Literary Souvenir; or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance for 1827
Auld Robin Gray
The Literary Souvenir for 1829
The Sisters
Minny O’Donnell’s Toilet
The Literary Souvenir for 1831
The Narrative
The Keepsake for 1828
The Convent of Chaillot, or La Valliere & Louis the XIV
The Ghost Laid
The Keepsake for 1829
The Magic Mirror
The Tapestried Chamber
Adelinda
Lake Albano
The Keepsake for 1830
Zella
Francis the First & His Sister
Virginia Water [1]
Virginia Water [2]
The Keepsake for 1831
Juliet
