Great Short Stories II: Ghost Stories ed. William Patten (P.F. Collier, 1909, 428pp, hc, an)
Volume 2 of a three volume series.
- 5 · La Morte Amoreuse · Théophile Gautier · nv (r), as “Clarimonde”
translated from the French (“La Morte Amoureuse”, Chronique de Paris, June 23 & 26, 1836).
- 31 · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · nv The Idler March 1896
- 45 · The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885
- 69 · The Roll-Call of the Reef · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q
- 89 · The House and the Brain · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · nv A Strange Story and the Haunted and the Haunters by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865
revised from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859 (anonymously) to remove material reused in A Strange Story.
- 121 · The Dream Woman · W. Wilkie Collins · nv Temple Bar November 1874 (+1)
revised from “Brother Morgan’s Story of the Dream-Woman” (The Queen of Hearts, Hurst and Blackett, 1859), itself revised from “The Ostler” (Household Words, Christmas 1855).
- 145 · Green Branches · Fiona Macleod · ss The Sin-Eater by Fiona Macleod, Geddes, 1895
- 161 · A Bewitched Ship · W. Clark Russell · ss 1884
- 175 · The Signal Man · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman”
- 191 · The Four-Fifteen Express · Amelia B. Edwards · nv Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867, 1866
- 221 · Our Last Walk · Hugh Conway · ss Bound Together by Hugh Conway, Remington and Co., 1884
- 245 · Thrawn Janet · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Cornhill Magazine October 1881, as by R. L. S.
- 259 · A Christmas Carol [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · na Chapman & Hall, December 19 1843
- 341 · The Spectre Bridegroom · Washington Irving · ss The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #4, November 10 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- 359 · The Mysterious Sketch · Erckmann-Chatrian · ss Strange Stories by Erckmann-Chatrian, Appleton, 1880
translated from the French (“L’esquisse mystérieuse”, Les Contes Fantastiques, Hachette, 1860).
- 379 · Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine December 1834, uncredited.
- 395 · The White Old Maid · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine July 1835, as “The Old Maid in the Winding-Sheet” by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- 409 · Wandering Willie’s Tale · Sir Walter Scott · ex from Redgauntlet, Constable, 1824
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