If this is a return visit, please reload to see latest additions. While Vampires are now the big thing in so called Gothic literature, the genre has a very long history, that didn't always involve the pale immortal beings we've come to know and love. They started out, as short bits, and even longer novels, of mysterious, often frightening tales of all manner of occult oddities, from LeFanu's "Sir Dominick's Bargain" and Henry James's Classic Shost story "Turn of the Screw" to, the work of Walpole, Leland, and Beckford, to the other lesser known shorts of someone like M.R. James and his circle of friends. Here, then, are some other examples of classic oddities. Read on and enjoy. Other Gothic texts Romantic Readings of the Gothic Gothic short stories The Gothic Canon On the Pleasures Derived from Objects of Terror By John and Anna Aiken, circa 1773 M.R. James Ghost Stories more to come... Site Map updated October 21, 2008 Set by webmistress, for the exclusive use of Immortal Grace. doll by Cyndi's Dollz. Please do not snag. Artist of picture above unknown. No copyright infringement intended.