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The Maniac Or Fatal Effects Of Wanton Mischief
Some years ago, a very intelligent, handsome, and pro...

The Fall Of The House Of Usher
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundles...

Farm Barn Under-ground Plan And Yard
The most economical plan, for room in tying cattle in t...

The Black Dog And The Thumbless Hand
[Some years ago I published in a volume of tales called...

Cottage 2 Interior Arrangement
PLAN The front door opens into a common living room,...

The Old Family Coach
A distinguished and accomplished country gentleman and ...

Glamis Castle
Of all the hauntings in Scotland, none has gained suc...

A Genuine Ghost
(Philadelphia _Press_, March 25, 1884) DAYTON, O., M...

Giles The Shepherd And Spectre
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Cottage 4 Interior Arrangement
PLAN From the veranda in the center of the front, a ...





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"ARISE EVANS"

"Border Minstrelsy"

"Court Records"

"Notes and Queries"

"The Phantom World"

a _Proces-verbal_

ALGERNON BLACKWOOD

AMBROSE BIERCE

Andrew Lang

ARCHDEACON HARE'S Autobiography

ARNOLD BENNETT

ARTHUR MACHEN

BOCCACCIO

CAMPBELL'S "Tales of the West Highlands"

Charles Dickens

CHARLES KIRKPATRICK SHARPE

CHRISTMAS' "Phantom World"

DALE OWEN'S "Footfalls"

DANIEL DE FOE

Dr DOUGLAS HYDE

DRUMMOND'S "Conversations"

E.F. BENSON

E.W. GODWIN.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

EDMUND JONES

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

ELLIS PARKER BUTLER

FERRIER'S "Apparitions"

GEORGE MACDONALD

GREVILLE MACDONALD

HENDERSON'S "Folk Lore"

HOMER'S Iliad

HUNT'S "Romances of the West of England"

Irish Folk Tales

JOSEPH GLANVIL

Lacy Collison-morley

LEOPOLD KOMPERT

Local Records

Merry Wives of Windsor

MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES

Mrs CROWE

Mrs CROWE'S "Night Side of Nature"

NORTH'S "Plutarch"

RUDYARD KIPLING

s, publishers, editors, dramatists, writers of motion pictures

S. Mukerji

SIR EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

SIR GEORGE DOUGLAS, Bart.

SIR WALTER SCOTT

St John D Seymour

the Rev. JOHN MASTIN

the Rev. S.R. HAWKER

THOMAS HARDY

VINCENT O'SULLIVAN

WILL CARLETON

WILLIAM HUNT

WILSON'S "Tales of the Borders"