Midnight
The adventures of Adelaide and her lover , Walter of Gloucester , are so insufferably tedious that Scott doubtless decided to `` leave to conjecture '' their interminable vicissitudes . The names of other novels , whose pages he may impatiently have scanned , may be garnered by those who will , from such works as _ Living Authors _ -LRB- 1817 -RRB- , or from the four volumes of Watts ' elaborate compilation , the _ Bibliotheca Britannica _ -LRB- 1824 -RRB- . The titles are , indeed , lighter and more entertaining reading than the books themselves . Anyone might reasonably expect to read _ Midnight Horrors , or The Bandit 's Daughter _ , as Henry Tilney vows he read _ The Mysteries of Udolpho _ , with `` hair on end all the time '' ; but the actual story , notwithstanding a wandering ball of fire , that acts as guide through the labyrinths of a Gothic castle , is conducive of sleep rather than shudders . The notoriety of Lewis 's monk may be estimated by the procession of monks who followed in his train . There were , to select a few names at random , _ The New Monk _ , by one R.S. , Esq. ; _ The Monk of Madrid _ , by George Moore -LRB- 1802 -RRB- ; _ The Bloody Monk of Udolpho _ , by T.J. Horsley Curties ; _ Manfroni , the One-handed Monk _ , whose history was borrowed , together with those of Abellino , the terrific bravo , and Rinaldo Rinaldini , -LSB- 55 -RSB- by `` J.J. '' from Miss Flinders ' library ; -LSB- 56 -RSB- and lastly , as a counter-picture , a monk without a scowl , _ The Benevolent Monk _ , by Theodore Melville -LRB- 1807 -RRB- . The nuns , including `` Rosa Matilda 's '' _ Nun of St. Omer 's _ , Miss Sophia Francis 's _ Nun of Misericordia _ -LRB- 1807 -RRB- and Miss Wilkinson 's _ Apostate Nun _ , would have sufficed to people a convent .