Tales for Winter Nights (James B. Smith, 1855, 288pp, hc, an)
A large-size volume subtitled, “A Choice Collection of Interesting Adventures, Marvellous Stories, Anecdotes, &c…”. Many of the stories are presented as fantastic then revealed as hoaxes. All items are anonymous except for some poems.
- 3 · The Field of Terror · Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, uncredited · nv Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, Vol. 3, Simpkin, Marshall, 1823
- 17 · Legend of the Wandering Jew · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 20 · Fable Concerning Christ’s Raising Japhet, the Son of Noah · [uncredited] · vi (r)
- 22 · The Apparition · [uncredited] · vi (r)
- 25 · Archy Tait, the Village Chronicle · [uncredited] · ss (r); series of brief fantastic tall tales.
- 33 · Terrific Spectre in Switzerland · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 35 · The False Guardian · [uncredited] · vi (r)
- 36 · The Fiery Ordeal · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 37 · The Boar Wolf · Johann August Apel, uncredited · ss (r)
translated from the German (Gespensterbuch, 1810-17).
- 57 · Dumb Prophets · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 59 · The Abbe at Calvados · [uncredited] · vi (r)
- 61 · Adventures of Basil Lee on One of the Hebrides · James Hogg, uncredited · ss The Spy September 15 1810 - September 22 1810, as “On Instability in One’s Calling”
- 74 · A Miracle Monger · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 75 · Jeffery Hudson · [uncredited] · ar (r); tells the life of the famous English dwarf.
- 76 · Supernatural Warning · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 79 · The Ghost · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 83 · The Mountain Doctor · [uncredited] · vi (r)
- 84 · Singular Will · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 85 · The Bottle Imp · Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, uncredited · nv Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, Vol. 1, Simpkin, Marshall, 1823
translated from the German (“Das Galgenmännlein”, 1814).
- 113 · Renee Corbeau · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 118 · A Song on the Murder of Mrs. Hayes · Jonathan Swift · pm (r)
- 121 · The Fly-Maker · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 127 · Mischievous Monkeys · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 129 · Superstitions of New England · [uncredited] · vi (r)
- 131 · The Unconscious Poet · John Wilson · pm (r)
- 133 · The Flying Dutchman · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 142 · Cross Readings in Verse · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 144 · The Butterfly · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 145 · Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin, uncredited · nv New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell
- 178 · Anecdote of King George III · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 178 · Expression of Compassion at a Card Table · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 180 · Petrified Corpse · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 181 · The Ghost of My Uncle · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 192 · Sir Richard Steele and the Seven Bulls · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 193 · The Bleeding Finger · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 215 · Witchcraft · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 217 · The Mysterious Pack · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 230 · The Conjuror · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 238 · Extracts from a Cynics Vocabulary · [uncredited] · ar (r); similar to Bierce’s A Devil’s Dictionary.
- 239 · Henry VIII and the Abbot of Reading · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 240 · Parliamentary Error · [uncredited] · ar (r)
- 241 · The Golden Tooth: a Northern Legend · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 260 · The Parricide Punished · [uncredited] · ss Gentlemen and Ladies’ Town and Country Magazine July 1789
first published in French in 1782.
- 264 · Horse and Oysters · [uncredited] · vi (r)
- 265 · Communicative Pockets · [uncredited] · ss (r)
- 279 · The Pig: a Tale · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 284 · The Gauger of Garstang · [uncredited] · pm (r)
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