The Supernatural and English Fiction by Glen Cavaliero, the author of books on E. M. Forster and John Cowper Powys, is a 250-page cram course in supernatural fiction written in the British Isles, “from The Castle of Otranto to Hawksmoor” (as the dust jacket promises). Its discussion of James is limited to less than seven pages that cover ground already familiar to James scholars, so it is not likely to prove very valuable to readers of the Henry James Review. Critics and scholars with a general interest in the literature of the fantastic will not find the kinds of theoretical discussions of the subgenre of supernatural fiction found in well-known work by, for example, Tzvetan Todorov or Tobin Siebers. Cavaliero does not even acknowledge the existence of such work; perhaps this is because Cavaliero makes a distinction between the supernatural and the fantastic (though the title of Todorov’s book refers to the fantastic and not to the supernatural, both his and Cavaliero’s books discuss many of the same primary texts).