Chapter 10

The chapbook versions of the Gothic romance; the popularity of sensational story illustrated in Leigh Hunt's _Indicator_; collections of short stories; various types of short story in periodicals; stories based on oral tradition; the humourist's turn for the terrible; natural terror in tales from _Blackwood_ and in Conrad; use of terror in Stevenson and Kipling; future possibilities of fear as a motive in short stories. Pp. 185-196.