Ghosts and Marvels
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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""Schalken" conforms more strictly to my own ideals. It is indeed one of the best of Le Fanu's good things."--introduction to Ghosts and Marvels (1924) by M. R. James |
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Ghosts and Marvels (1924) is an anthology of fantastic fiction.
Compiled by Vere Henry Collins who was born in 1872.
Mrs. Veal, by D. Defoe --Wandering Willie's tale (red-gauntlet), by W. Scott.--The werewolf (the phantom ship), by F. Marryat.--The haunted and the haunters; or, The house and the brain, by Lord Lytton.--Young Goodman Brown, by N. Hawthorne.--Ligeia, by E.A. Poe.--A strange event in the life of Schalken the painter, by J.S. Le Fanu.--The lifted veil, by G. Eliot.--The open door, by Mrs. Oliphant.--The body-snatcher, by R.L. Stevenson.--The monkey's paw, by W.W. Jacobs.--The crystal egg, by H.G. Wells.--Ancient sorceries, by A. Blackwood.--The moon-slave, by B. Pain.--Casting the runes, by M.R. James.
