Great Ghost Stories ed. Joseph Lewis French (Dodd, Mead, 1918, $2.00, xii+365pp, hc, an)
Later rebound with Ghosts, Grim and Gentle as The Ghost Story Omnibus, 1933.
- v · Foreword · James Hyslop · fw
- 1 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, 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.
- 38 · The Roll-Call of the Reef · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q
- 62 · The Open Door · Mrs. Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1882
- 115 · The Deserted House · E. T. A. Hoffmann · nv Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories: German: Russian: Scandinavian ed. Julian Hawthorne, The Review of Reviews, 1907
translated from the German (“Das Öde Haus”, 1817).
- 143 · 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).
- 166 · Green Branches · Fiona Macleod · ss The Sin-Eater by Fiona Macleod, Geddes, 1895
- 187 · The Four-Fifteen Express · Amelia B. Edwards · nv Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867, 1866
- 221 · The Werewolf · Frederick Marryat · ex from The Phantom Ship, Henry Colburn, May 1839
- 246 · The Withered Arm · Thomas Hardy · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1888
- 281 · Clarimonde · Théophile Gautier · nv (r)
translated from the French (“La Morte Amoureuse”, Chronique de Paris, June 23 & 26, 1836).
- 324 · The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral · M. R. James · nv The Contemporary Review April 1910
- 346 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited.
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