BOOKS

Shelley, Mary (1797-1851). Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818/1832 edition).   Dover Thrift.
Stoker, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula (1897).  Dover Thrift.
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). Dover Thrift.
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900). The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Dover Thrift.

Note: I ordered these books only at Shakespeare and Co. on Hillel Place.

XEROXED COURSE PACKET (CP)

Barham, Richard Harris (1788-1845).  “Jerry Jervis’s Wig” (1843).
Benson, E.F. (1867-1940). "Caterpillars" (1912).
Blackwood, Algernon (1869-1951). "The Transfer" (1912), “Wendigo" (1910), "The Willows" (1907).
Broughton, Rhoda (1849-1920).  “The Man with the Nose” (1879).
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870).  “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt” (1865), “No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman” (1866).
Heron, E. And H./Kate and Hesketh Prichard (1876-1922).  “The Story of Baelbrow” (1869).
Jacobs, W.W. (1863-1943). "The Monkey's Paw."
James, Montague Rhodes (1862-1936). "Casting the Runes" (1911), "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" (1904), "Count Magnus" (1904), "The Mezzotint" (1904).
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936).  “The Mark of the Beast" (1891), "They” (1905).
Le Fanu, Sheridan (1814-1873). "Schalken the Painter" (1839), "Carmilla" (1872), "Green Tea" (1872).
Machen, Arthur (1863-1947). "The Great God Pan" (1894), “The White People” (1895).
Marriott-Watson, H.B.  (1863-1921).  “The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” (1837).
Pearce, J.H. (1856-?).  “The Man Who Coined His Blood into Gold” (1893).
Rymer, James Malcolm (1814-188 1). Chapters I-II, Varney the Vampyre, or, The Feast of Blood (1845-7).


SYLLABUS

Day 1 Itroduction
Day 2
Ann Radcliffe, The Castle of Otranto (handout)
Matthew G. Lewis,  The Monk (handout)
Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer (handout)
Day 3
Shelley, Frankenstein, pp. 1-90
Day 4
Shelley, Frankenstein, pp. 90-166
Day 5

Shelley, Frankenstein
Marryat, "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains" (CP)

Day 6

Le Fanu, "Schalkwn the Painter" (CP)
Rhymer, Varney the Vampyre (CP)

Day 7
Le Fanu, "Carmilla," "Green Tea" (CP)
Day 8
Barham, "Jerry Jervis's Wig" (CP)
Dickens, "To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt," "No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman" (CP)
Day 9
Heron & Heron, "The Story of Baelbrow" (CP)
Broughton, "The Man with the Nose" (CP)
Day 10
Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Day 11
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, pp. 1-86
Day 12
"Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, pp. 86-165
Day 13
Midterm
Day 14
Kipling, "The Mark of the Beast," "They" (CP)
Marriot-Watson, "The Devil of the Marsh" (CP)
Pearce, "The Man Who Choined His Blood into Gold (CP)
Day 15
Machen, "The Great God Pan," "The White People'"(CP)
Day 16 Machen
Presentations 1 & 2
Day 17
Stoker, Dracula, pp. 1-152
Day 18
Stoker, Dracula, pp. 153-258
Day 19
Stoker, Dracula, pp. 259-326
Presentation 3
Day 20
Jacobs, "The Monkey's paw" (CP)
Presentaitons 4 & 5
Day 21
James, M.R. "Count Magnus," "Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" (CP)
Day 22
M.R. James, "Casting the Runes" (CP)
Presentations 6 & 7
Day 23 M.R. James, "The Mezzotint" (CP)
Presentations 8 & 9
Day 24
Blackwood, "The Wendigo," "The Willows" (CP)
Day 25 Blackwood, "The Transfer" (CP)
Presentations 10 & 11
Day 26
Saki, "Sredni Vashtar," "The Music on the Hill," "The She-Wolf," "The Open Window" (handout)
Presentations 11 & 12
Day 27
Benson, "Caterpillars" (CP)
Presentations 13 & 14
Day 28
Presentations 15 & 16
10:30-12:30, Dec. 23
Final
10:00 A.M., Jan. 5
Last day to hand in revised or late paper/project

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