Ghosts and marvels
Subtitle: a selection of uncanny tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood
By: made by Vere H. Collins. With an introd. by Montague R. James.
Series: Short story index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English.; Fantasy fiction, American.; Supernatural -- Fiction.
Notes: Reprint of the 1924 ed. published by Oxford University Press, London, which was issued as no. 284 of The World's classics.
Table of contents: title: Mrs. Veal, by D. Defoe.; title: Wandering Willie's tale (red-gauntlet), by W. Scott.; title: The werewolf (the phantom ship), by F. Marryat.; title: The haunted and the haunters; or, The house and the brain, by Lord Lytton.; title: Young Goodman Brown, by N. Hawthorne.; title: Ligeia, by E. A. Poe.; title: A strange event in the life of Schalken the painter, by J. S. Le Fanu.; title: The lifted veil, by G. Eliot.; title: The open door, by Mrs. Oliphant.; title: The body-snatcher, by R. L. Stevenson.; title: The monkey's paw, by W. W. Jacobs.; title: The crystal egg, by H. G. Wells.; title: Ancient sorceries, by A. Blackwood.; title: The moon-slave, by B. Pain.; title: Casting the runes, by M. R. James.