A collection of 25 classic stories shaped by Gothic's mood of menace and the macabre. In addition to the world-famous title novel, about a 'ghost' who terrorizes the personnel of the Paris Opera House, the book includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the book that launched the Gothic-novel craze, as well as stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen, Louisa May Alcott, E.T.A. Hoffmann, J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Vernon Lee. This book features an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable and collectible, the books in this series offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.