The purpose of the present work is to serve as a guide to English horror- romanticism, and by presenting the chief materials used by it & grouping them according to the various themes employed, to show how the main romantic movement that began at the turn of the century & is represented in all shorter expositions of the subject as a suddenly bursting wave, as a kind of spontaneous revolution, is in all essentials the outcome of an organic development with widely spread roots that penetrate deep into the past. Illustrated.