GHOST AND MARVELS: A SELECTION OF UNCANNY TALES FROM DANIEL DEFOE TO ALGERNON BLACKWOOD.

by V.H. Collins

Contentsv Introduction (Ghosts and A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood) (1924) essay by M. R. James1 Mrs. Veal short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)14 Wandering Willie's Tale [Redgauntlet Excerpts] (1824) short story by Sir Walter Scott41 The Werewolf short story by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf ( chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship) 1839)71 The Haunted and the or The House and the Brain novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton]126 Young Goodman Brown (1835) short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne146 Ligeia (1838) short story by Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar A. Poe]169 Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter (1894) novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]204 The Lifted Veil (1859) novelette by George Eliot267 The Open Door (1881) novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]329 The Body-Snatcher (1895) short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)357 The Monkey's Paw (1902) short story by W. W. Jacobs373 The Crystal Egg (1897) short story by H. G. Wells398 Ancient Sorceries [John Silence] (1908) novelette by Algernon Blackwood467 The Moon-Slave (1901) short story by Barry Pain475 Casting the Runes novelette by M. R. James [as by Montague R. James]

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First published June 1, 1924