Gothic Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell contains 4 short stories.ContentsTHE DOOM OF THE GRIFFITHS (1858) 1CHAPTER I. 1CHAPTER II. 13The Crooked Branch (1859) 25Disappearances (1851) 57The Poor Clare (1856) 64CHAPTER I 64CHAPTER II 71CHAPTER III 90The Doom of the Griffiths is a powerful tale of a family curse.Disappearances', a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings.The Poor Clare is an 1856 gothic ghost story told in a series of narratives. Bridget, the grandmother, invoked a phantom who is now haunting the pure and innocent Lucy. The story is full of intergenerational secrets.