A collection of 25 classic stories shaped by Gothic's mood of menace and the macabre. In addition to the world-famous title novel, about a 'ghost' who terrorizes the personnel of the Paris Opera House, the book includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the book that launched the Gothic-novel craze, as well as stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen, Louisa May Alcott, E.T.A.