"Cover"--"Half Title Page"--"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Original Title Page" -- "Original Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "Series Editor's Preface" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Chapter 1: Poe, Gothic Fiction, and Fear" -- "Poe and the Notion of Fear" -- "Some Characteristics of the Gothic" -- "Poe's Strategy of Fear" -- "Chapter 2: Aesthetic and Scientific Theories: Stephen King, Benjamin Rush, and Fear" -- "Stephen King on Horror" -- "Benjamin Rush and Nineteenth-Century Theories" -- "Modern Psychological Perspectives" -- "Specific Fears in Poe's Gothic Fiction" -- "Chapter 3: Poe's Fiction of Fear" -- ""Metzengerstein," "MS. Found in a Bottle," "The Assignation," "Shadow," and "Silence"" -- ""Berenice," "Morella," "Ligeia, ""The Fall of the House of Usher," and "William Wilson"" -- ""A Descent into the Maelstrom," "Eleonora," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Black Cat"" -- ""The Premature Burial," "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Hop-Frog"" -- "Chapter 4: Poe's Fiction of Fear in Retrospect" -- "Selected Bibliography