Stockton's stories ...

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Das Gespensterbuch /

"Fünfte Auflage"--Half title.

Jenseitsrätsel, Geschichten aus dem Ubersinnlichen

Mode of access: Internet.

The novels and stories.

v. 1. The late Mrs. Null.--v. 2. The Squirrel Inn. The Merry Chanter.--v. 3. Rudder Grange.--v. 4. The hundredth man.--v. 5. Ardis Claverden.--v. 6. The great war syndicate. The stories of the three burglars. The knife that killed Po Hancy. Dusky philosophy.--v. 7. The house of Martha.--v. 8. Pomona's travels. Euphemia among the pelican's. The Rudder Grangers in England. Pomona's daughter.--v. 9. The adventures of Captain Horn.--v. 10. Mrs. Cliff's yacht.--v. 11. The great stone of Sardis. The water-devil.--v. 12. The girl at Cobhurst.--v. 13. The casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine. The vizier of the two-horned Alexander.--v. 14. The associate hermits.--v. 15. Stories. [v.]1: The lady or the tiger? The discourager of hesitancy. The transferred ghost. The spectral mortgage. Every man his own letter-writer. Thar same old coon. Our story. Derelict. On the training of parents. A borrowed month. The baker of Barnbury. The watchmaker's wife.--v. 16. Stories. [v.]2: A tale of negative gravity. Asaph. The remarkable page. The Cloverfield's carriage. A story of assisted fate. My bull-calf. As one woman to another. Our fire-screen. My terminal moraine. Plain fishing.--v. 17. Stories. [v.]3: The griffin and the minor canon. Old Pipes and the dryad. The bee-man of Orn. The queen's museum. The clocks of Rondaine. Christmas before last; or, the fruit of the fragile palm. Prince Hassak's march. The battle of the third cousins. The banished king. The philopena. Amos Kilbright: his adscititious experiences. The Christmas shadrach. The bishop's ghost and the printer's baby. The philosophy of relative existences.--v. 18. Stories. [v.]4: The magic egg. "His wife's deceased sister." The widow's cruise. Captain Eli's best ear. Love before breakfast. The staying power of Sir Rohan. A piece of red calico. The Christmas wreck. My well and what came out of it. Mr. Tolman. My unwilling neighbor. Our archery club.--v. 19. Afield and afloat: The Buller-Podington compact. The romance of a mule-car. The governor-general. Old Applejoy's ghost. Struck by a boomerang. The skipper and El Capitan. "Come in, new year." A sailor's knot. The great staircase at Landover Hall. The ghosts in my toewer. The landsman's tale.--v. 20. Kate Bonnet: the romance of a pirate's daughter.--v. 21. John Gayther's garden.--v. 22. The captain's toll-gate.--v. 23. A bicycle of Cathay. With a memorial sketch of Mr. Stockton and a bibliography of his works.

Legends of terror! : and tales of the wonderful and the wild : original and select, in prose and verse ...

Title vignette.

Maga excursion papers.

Reprinted from Putnam's monthly magazine.

Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments,

v. 1. A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet--translated from Plato. On love. The coliseum. The assassins. On the punishment of death. On life. On a future state. Speculations on metaphysics. Speculations on morals. Ion; or, Of the Iliad--translated from Plato. Menexenus,--or, The funeral oration. Fragments from the Republic of Plato. On a passage in Crito.--v. 2. Journal of a six weeks' tour. Letters from Geneva. Journal at Geneva: ghost stories. Journal: return to England. Letters from Italy.

Writings and translations of Myles Coverdale. Containing The old faith. A spiritual and most precious pearl. Fruitful lessons. A treatise on the Lord's supper. Order of the church in Denmark. Abridgement of the Enchiridion of Erasmus.

Contains reprints of original title-pages.

Karma and other stories & essays,

"Editor's note" signed: Albert Mordell.

Hero tales of the far North,

A knight errant of the sea [Tordenakjold] - Hans Egede, the apostle to Greenland. - Gustav Vasa, the father of Sweden. - Absalon, warrior bishop of the North. - King Valdemar, and the story of the Dannebrog. - How the ghost of the heath was laid. - King Christian IV. - Gustav Adolf, the snow-king. - King and sailor, heroes of Copenhagen. - The trooper who won a war alone [Jens Kofoed] - Carl Linné, king of the flowers. - Niels Finsen, the wolfslayer.

Selected stories;

v. 1. Ball-of-Suet ; A family affair ; The artist's model ; The letters ; Cemetery sirens ; The dying peasant ; A madman's journal ; Checkmate! ; The shepherd's leap ; A husband's confession ; Madame Parisse ; The wedding night ; Father and son ; The false jewels ; The umbrella! ; The clock ; The dowry ; The lancer's wife ; Prisoners of war ; Woman's love ; The devil's visit ; Was it a dream? ; Simon's papa ; The diamond necklace ; Duchoux ; Timbuctoo ; Denis -- v. 2. The horla ; Monsieur Parent ; Miss Harriet ; Mad! ; Mademoiselle Pearl ; The farmer's wife ; A coward ; Mount Olivet ; The flight of years ; The old maid ; The Tellier house ; The parricide ; The fortune of war ; Humble happiness ; The mysterious groom ; The open door ; Wife and mistress ; The fathers ; The mountain inn ; Madame Husson's rosier ; An unfortunate resemblance -- v. 3. The Sunday outings of a bourgeois ; Little Louise Rocque ; A voice from the deep ; The father ; Magnetism ; The wrong house ; Moiron ; Monsieur Bombard's little game ; Madame Baptiste ; The Parisian accent ; A fashionable woman ; Mademoiselle Cocotte ; Who knows? ; Boitelle ; Uncle Jules ; The hand ; A lock of hair ; On the river ; My Uncle Sosthenes ; An artist ; Father Toine ; The viaticum ; True forgiveness ; A twelfth-night supper ; Father Matthew's saints ; A bit of string ; The minuet ; The relics ; A farm girl's story -- v. 4. The legacy ; Two little soldiers ; A state affair ; Old Amable ; Mademoiselle Fifi ; The ghost ; Useless beauty ; The fishing-hole ; The Rondoli family ; Châli ; The odalisque ; The wicked Mohammed ; Marroca ; Allouma ; A strange meeting ; Feminine wiles ; A strange night in Paris ; All over!

Holiday stories,

Paddy from Cork.--The sealskin sacque.--Summer boarders.--An American ghost.--The unfortunate heiress.--Love on instalments.--Ten to two.--A happy escape.--Over the ferry.

May Martin, and other tales of the Green Mountains.

May Martin.--The guardian and ghost.--The Shaker lovers.--Ethan Allen and the lost children.--The young sea captain.--The old soldier's story.--A new way to collect a bad debt.--An Indian's revenge.

Main St. Alcona, Mich. Michigan's one man town North of Harrisville, Mich.

Handwritten on front of postcard: Ghost town of Alcona.

A narrative of the life of David Crockett, of the state of Tennessee /

Crockett's attempt (ghost-written by Thomas Chilton) to correct erroneous impressions produced by Mathew St. Clair Clarke's The life and adventures of Colonel David Crockett of West Tennessee, which was published anonymously in 1833, and later reissued as Sketches and eccentricities of Colonel David Crockett of West Tennessee. Cf. introduction to the facsimile edition of the Narrative, edited by J.A. Shackford and S.J. Folmsbee, and published by the University of Tennessee Press.