Matthew Lewis is best remembered as the author of the sensational Gothic novel The Monk. He was also a slave-holder, inheriting two large plantations and visiting Jamaica twice in 1815-16 and 1817-18, primarily to improve the living and working conditions of his slaves.
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Books containing stories by Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories (2016)
(Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, book 1)
edited by
Ryan Cagle and James D Jenkins
The Evil Image (1983)
Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry
edited by
Nora Crow Jaffe and Patricia L Skarda
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