Excellent anthology of macabre 19th-Century fiction, slightly spoiled by its editors’ pretentious introduction. Includes such firsts-of-their-kind as Polidori’s The Vampyre, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla; along with Charles Nodier’s bizarre Smarra; Théophile Gautier’s The Beautiful Dead aka “Clarimonde” Poe’s Ligeia; etc., etc. Seek out the larger-format first edition if you can: later printings were much more cheaply & nastily made.