Edgar Allan Poe ; with an introduction by John Seelye. Herman Melville ; with an introduction by John Updike. Jorge Luis Borges; with an introduction by John Sturrock. Aldous Huxley with an introduction by John Sutherland. Angela Carter ; with an introduction by Joan Acocella. Arthur Conan Doyle ; with an introduction by Andrew Lycett. Benjamin Franklin ; with an introduction by Jill Lepore. Bram Stoker ; with an introduction by Joan Acocella. Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by Hermione Lee. John Williams, with an introduction by John McGahern.