Title: The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1
First published: October 7, 2006
Description: I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHORT-STORY
II. THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)
III. THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835)
IV. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Irving (1783-1859)
V. [DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W). By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864)
VI. [THE PURLOINED LETTER](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W). By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
VII. RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. By Dr. John Brown (1810-1882)
VIII. THE BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN. By Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
IX. A STORY OF SEVEN DEVILS. By Frank R. Stockton. (1834-1902)
X. A DOG'S TALE. By Mark Twain (1835)
XI. THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT. By Bret Harte (1839-1902)
XII. THE THREE STRANGERS. By Thomas Hardy (1840)
XIII. JULIA BRIDE. By Henry James (1843)
XIV. A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. By Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Subjects: Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal fiction, short story, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction
Places: Fountain of Youth, Florida, Paris
People: Dr. Heidegger, Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, Widow Wycherley, Sylvia Ward, C. Auguste Dupin (Fictitious character), C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon