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  CHAPTER X - SHORT TALES OF TERROR.

  The chapbook versions of the Gothic romance; the popularity ofsensational story illustrated in Leigh Hunt's _Indicator_;collections of short stories; various types of short story inperiodicals; stories based on oral tradition; the humourist'sturn for the terrible; natural terror in tales from _Blackwood_and in Conrad; use of terror in Stevenson and Kipling; futurepossibilities of fear as a motive in short stories. Pp. 185-196.