Chapter 9

The exaggeration of the later terror-mongers; innovations; the stories of Mary Shelley, Byron and Polidori; _Frankenstein_; its purpose; critical estimate; _Valperga_; _The Last Man_; Mrs. Shelley's short tales; Polidori's _Ernestus Berchtold_, a domestic story with supernatural agency; _The_ FACES _Vampyre_; later vampires; De Quincey's contributions to the tale of terror; Harrison Ainsworth's attempt to revive romance; his early Gothic stories; _Rookwood_, an attempt to bring the Radcliffe romance up to date; terror in Ainsworth's other novels; Marryat's _Phantom Ship_; Bulwer Lytton's interest in the occult; _Zanoni_, and Lytton's theory of the Intelligences; _The Haunted and the Haunters_; _A Strange Story_ and Lytton's preoccupation with mesmerism. Pp. 157-184.