Chapter 8

Scott's review of fashionable fiction in the Preface to _Waverley_; his early attempts at Gothic story in _Thomas the Rhymer_ and _The Lord of Ennerdale_; his enthusiasm for Bürger's _Lenore_ and for Lewis's ballads; his interest in demonology and witchcraft; his attitude to the supernatural; his hints to the writers of ghost-stories; his own experiments; Wandering Willie's Tale, a masterpiece of supernatural horror; the use of the supernatural in the Waverley Novels; Scott, the supplanter of the novel of terror. Pp. 145-156.