This selection brings together the fantastic Gothic stories of Vernon Lee, including the landmark collection Hauntings, first published in 1890, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay 'Faustus and Helena'.

Aaron Worth is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University who has previously edited The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (2019) by Arthur Machen and Green Tea and Other Weird Tales (2020) by Sheridan Le Fanu for Oxford World's Classics. His own horror fiction has appeared in publications including Cemetery Dance Magazine and Vastarien.

• Introduction


• Winthrop's Adventure


• Oke of Okehurst; or, the Phantom Lover


• Amour Dure


• Dionea


• A Wicked Voice


• The Legend of Madame Krasinska


• The Virgin of the Seven Daggers


• Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady


• The Doll


• Marsyas in Flanders


• Appendix I: Faustus and Helena


• Appendix II: Preface to Hauntings


• Explanatory Notes