Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood

Contents v • Introduction (Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood) • (1924) • essay by M. R. James 1 • Mrs. Veal • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706) 14 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott 41 • The Werewolf • short story by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf (excerpt: chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship) 1839) 71 • The Haunted and the Haunters: or The House and the Brain • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton] 126 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne 146 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar A. Poe] 169 • Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter • (1894) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu] 204 • The Lifted Veil • (1859) • novelette by George Eliot 267 • The Open Door • (1881) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant] 329 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884) 357 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs 373 • The Crystal Egg • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells 398 • Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood 467 • The Moon-Slave • (1901) • short story by Barry Pain 475 • Casting the Runes • novelette by M. R. James [as by Montague R. James]