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  CHAPTER IX - LATER DEVELOPMENTS OF THE TALE OF TERROR.

  The exaggeration of the later terror-mongers; innovations; thestories of Mary Shelley, Byron and Polidori; _Frankenstein_; itspurpose; critical estimate; _Valperga_; _The Last Man_; Mrs.Shelley's short tales; Polidori's _Ernestus Berchtold_, adomestic 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 Gothicstories; _Rookwood_, an attempt to bring the Radcliffe romance upto date; terror in Ainsworth's other novels; Marryat's _PhantomShip_; Bulwer Lytton's interest in the occult; _Zanoni_, andLytton's theory of the Intelligences; _The Haunted and theHaunters_; _A Strange Story_ and Lytton's preoccupation withmesmerism. Pp. 157-184.