1926 The Ghost outlet Story Omnibus by Joseph L. French, hardcover, no dust jacket, 1926 rare antique book
Fantastic antique book! Hardcover with no dust jacket. 1926 edition. Includes ghost stories by Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells! See pictures for more information.
Publication: The Ghost Story Omnibus
Authors: Joseph Lewis French
Date: 1926
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc and Tudor Publishing
Pages: vii+365+292
Format: hardcover, no dust jacket
Type: OMNIBUS (two volumes in one book)
Fiction and Essays included in this volume:
Great Ghost Stories • (1918) • anthology by Joseph Lewis French
Ghosts, Grim and Gentle • anthology by Joseph Lewis French
Clarimonde • (1882) • novelette by Théophile Gautier (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
Foreword (Great Ghost Stories) • (1918) • outlet essay by James H. Hyslop
Green Branches • (1895) • short story by Fiona MacLeod
The Deserted House • (1918) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Das öde Haus 1817) [as by Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann]
The Four-Fifteen Express • (1866) • novelette by Amelia B. Edwards
The House and the Brain • (1906) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
The Mysterious Sketch • (1880) • novelette by Alexandre Chatrian and Émile Erckmann (trans. of L'esquisse mystérieuse 1860) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian]
The Open Door • (1918) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant]
The Roll Call of the Reef • (1918) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch (variant of The Roll-Call of the Reef 1895) [as by A. T. Quiller-Couch]
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral • (1911) • short story by M. R. James [as by Montague Rhodes James]
The Were-Wolf • (1918) • short fiction by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf (excerpt: chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship) 1839) [as by H. B. Marryat]
The Withered Arm • (1888) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
What Was It? • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
A Psychical Invasion • [John Silence] • (1908) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
Maese Pérez, the Organist • (1890) • short story by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (trans. of Maese Pérez, el organista (Leyenda sevillana) 1866)
On the River • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Sur l'eau 1876)
On the Staircase • (1913) • novelette by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
*The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
The Feast of Redgauntlet • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short fiction by Sir Walter Scott
*The Ghost of Fear • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Red Room)
The Ghost-Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
The Tall Woman • novelette by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (trans. of La mujer alta: cuento de miedo 1882)
The Tractate Middoth • (1911) • short story by M. R. James