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-Frankenstein: English Romantic  around 1798 and lasted until 1837

-Dracula: Late Victorian  1850 - 1910

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-"The Phantom Coach" (by Amelia B. Edwards) (mid-Victorian) between 1850 and 1870

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- "Soft"  (by Paul F. Wilson) (1980s America)

-“The Book” (short story by Margaret Irwin): World War I

-“Smoke Ghost” (short story by Fritz Leiber): (early 1940s America)

-“The Hungry House” (short story by Robert Bloch): America in the 1950s

-“It Only Comes Out at Night” (short story by Dennis Etchison): America in the 1970s

-“One for the Road” (short story by Stephen King): America in the 1970s

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Stories

Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel    ISBN #     9781906332495  

Dracula the Play ISBN # 9780573608223

All short stories (except "One from the Road")  from The Weird : A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories ISBN 9780765333629  Need to cite this as an anthology not book. 

"One from the Road" 9780385129916 from Night Shift. Penguin Putnam, 1994.

 Punter, David and Glennis Byron. The Gothic. Blackwell, 2004.

Bloch, Robert. "The Hungry House." The Weird : a Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, Tor Books, 2012.

Deane, Hamilton, and John L. Balderston. Dracula: The Vampire Play in Three Acts. Samuel French, 1960.

Etchison, Dennis. "It Only Comes Out at Night." The Weird : a Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, Tor Books, 2012.

King, Stephen. "One for the Road." Night Shift, Penguin Putnam, 1994.

Leiber, Fritz. "Smoke Ghost." The Weird : a Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, Tor Books, 2012.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel. Classical Comics, 2008.