Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror ed. Hugh Lamb (W.H. Allen & Co., November 24, 1975, 0-491-01884-3, £3.50, 222pp, hc, an)
Anthology of fourteen Victorian ghost and horror stories. Not to be confused with the 1992 volume of the same name.
- 9 · Editor’s Foreword · Hugh Lamb · fw
- 13 · Purification · Robert Barr · ss Revenge! by Robert Barr, Chatto & Windus, 1896
- 22 · The Beckoning Hand · Grant Allen · nv The Beckoning Hand by Grant Allen, Chatto, 1887
- 47 · Nothing but the Truth · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar February 1868, as “The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth”
- 58 · The Haunted House of Paddington · Charles Ollier · ss Bentley’s Miscellany November 1841
- 66 · A Dreadful Night · Edwin Lester Arnold · ss Belgravia May 1894
- 77 · The House of Strange Stories · Andrew Lang · ss In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, 1886
- 89 · The Invisible Eye · Erckmann-Chatrian; translated by Charles S. Cheltnam · nv Temple Bar December 1870
translated from the French (“L’œil invisible ou L’auberge des trois pendus”, 1857).
- 106 · “The Earth Draws” · Jonas Lie; translated by R. Nisbet Bain · ss Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie, tr. R. Nisbet Bain, Kegan Paul, Trence, Truebner, 1893
translated from the Danish (“Jorden drager”, Trold, Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1891).
- 114 · The Wondersmith · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1859, uncredited.
- 146 · The Basilisk · R. Murray Gilchrist · ss The National Observer July 23 1892
- 154 · A Dead Man’s Teeth · S. Baring-Gould · ss Monsieur Pichelmère, and Other Stories by Sabine Baring-Gould, Digby, Long, 1905
- 161 · The Doomed Man · Dick Donovan · nv Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899
- 191 · Kentucky’s Ghost · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1868, uncredited.
- 204 · The Weird Woman · [uncredited] · ss Bow Bells Annual 1871, as “The Tregethan’s Curse: or, The Weird Woman”
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