Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

CONTENTS: 9 • Editor's Foreword (Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Horror) • (1975) • essay by Hugh Lamb 13 • Purification • (1896) • short story by Robert Barr 22 • The Beckoning Hand • (1887) • novelette by Grant Allen 47 • Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • short story by Rhoda Broughton (variant of The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth) 58 • The Haunted House of Paddington • (1841) • short story by Charles Ollier (variant of The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington) 66 • A Dreadful Night • (1894) • short story by Edwin L. Arnold [as by Edward Lester Arnold] 77 • The House of Strange Stories • (1886) • short story by Andrew Lang 89 • The Invisible Eye • (1870) • short story by Alexandre Chatrian and Émile Erckmann? (trans. of L'œil invisible ou L'auberge des trois pendus? 1857) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian] 106 • The Earth Draws • (1975) • short story by Jonas Lie (trans. of Jorden drager 1891) 114 • The Wondersmith • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien [as by Fitz James O'Brien] 146 • The Basilisk • (1892) • short story by R. Murray Gilchrist 154 • A Dead Man's Teeth • short story by Sabine Baring-Gould [as by S. Baring Gould] 161 • The Doomed Man • (1899) • novelette by Dick Donovan 191 • Kentucky's Ghost • (1975) • short story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward] 204 • The Weird Woman • (1871) • short story by uncredited (variant of The Tregethan's Curse: or, the Weird Woman) [as by Anonymous] View Less