THE LIBRARY
A complete list of all texts catalogued in the library, listed alphabetically by authors' last names
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'The Curse of the Catafalques', F. Anstey (1882, printed in The Cornhill Magazine) 
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'Pallinghurst Barrow', Grant Allen (1892, printed in the Illustrated London News - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive) 
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'The Dead and the Countess', Gertrude Atherton (1902) 
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'The Striding Place' [originally published as 'The Twins'], Gertrude Atherton (1896) 
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'The Ghost Club: An Unfortunate Episode in the Life of no. 5010', John Kendrick Bangs (1894, printed in The Water Ghost and Others, illustrated) 
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'The Werewolves', Henry Beaugrand (1898, printed in The Century Magazine, illustrated) 
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'The Death of Halpin Frayser', Ambrose Bierce (1891, printed in The Wave, illustrated) 
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'The Middle Toe of the Right Foot', Ambrose Bierce (1891 printed in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) 
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Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (1847, published in 2 instalments under the pseudonym Ellis Bell) 
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'The Cold Embrace', Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1861, printed in The Welcome Guest) 
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'Eveline's Visitant', Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1867, printed in Belgravia) 
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'My Wife's Promise', Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1868, printed in Belgravia, illustrated) 
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'Good Lady Ducayne', Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1896, printed in The Strand Magazine, illustrated) 
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'The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth', Rhoda Broughton (1873, printed in Tales for Christmas Eve) 
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'Under the Cloak', Rhoda Broughton (1873, printed in Tales for Christmas Eve) 
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'The Baron's Coffin', Ada Buisson (1869, printed in Belgravia, illustrated) 
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'The Ghost’s Summons', Ada Buisson (1868, printed in Belgravia) 
 
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'The New Mother', Lucy Clifford (1882, printed in Anyhow Stories: Moral and Otherwise, illustrated) 
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'The Witch', Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1908, printed in Poems) 
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'Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk', Frank Cowper (1889, printed in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine) 
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'The Doll's Ghost', F. Marion Crawford (1896) - 
(1896, printed in The Illustrated London News Christmas Supplement) 
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(1911, printed in Wandering Ghosts) 
 
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'The Screaming Skull', F. Marion Crawford (1908) - 
(1908 original publication source TBC) 
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(1911, printed in Wandering Ghosts) 
 
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'Number Ninety', B. M. Croker (1895, printed in Chapman's Magazine of Fiction) 
 
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'A Sworn Statement', Emma Frances Dawson (1881) - 
(1881, printed in The Wasp) 
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(1897, printed in An Itinerant House and Other Stories) 
 
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'Are the Dead Dead?', Emma Frances Dawson (1897, printed in An Itinerant House and Other Stories) 
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'A Christmas Carol', Charles Dickens (1843, illustrated) 
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'The Signalman', Charles Dickens (1866, printed in All the Year Round) 
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'The Trial for Murder' [originally published as 'To be Taken with a Grain of Salt'] (1865) - 
(1865, published under the original title, printed in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions) 
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(1866, printed in Three Ghost Stories) 
 
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'The Case of Lady Sannox', Arthur Conan Doyle (1893, printed in The Idler, illustrated) 
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'Lot No. 249', Arthur Conan Doyle (1892, printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, illustrated) 
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'The Parasite', Arthur Conan Doyle (1894) 
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'A Pastoral Horror', Arthur Conan Doyle (1890, printed in The People, illustrated) 
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'The Woman in Red', Muriel Campbell Dyar (1899, printed in The Black Cat) 
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'Unmasked' [sequel to 'The Woman in Red'], Muriel Campbell Dyar (1900, printed in The Black Cat) 
 
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'The Lifted Veil', George Eliot [aka Mary Ann Evans] (1859, printed in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine) 
 
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'Carmilla', Sheridan Le Fanu (1871) 
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'Green Tea', Sheridan Le Fanu (1872, printed in In a Glass Darkly, vol. 1) 
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'Mr. Justice Hardbottle', Sheridan Le Fanu (1872, printed in In a Glass Darkly, vol. 1) 
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'The Vicar's Ghost', Lucy Farmer (printed in Burnley Express and Clitheroe Division Advertiser; part 1, part 2) 
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The Vampire City /La Ville-Vampire, Paul Féval 
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'The Lost Ghost', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated) 
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'Luella Miller', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated) 
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'The Shadows on the Wall', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated) 
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'The Southwest Chamber', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated) 
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'The Vacant Lot', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated) 
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'The Wind in the Rose-bush', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated) 
 
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'Curious, If True', Elizabeth Gaskell (1860) 
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'Lois the Witch', Elizabeth Gaskell (1861, printed in Lois the Witch and other Tales) 
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'The Old Nurse's Story', Elizabeth Gaskell (1852, printed in Household Words Christmas edition) 
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'The Poor Clare', Elizabeth Gaskell (1856, printed in Household Words; part 1, part 2, part 3) 
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'The Giant Wisteria', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891, printed in The New England Magazine, illustrated) 
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'The Yellow Wallpaper', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892, printed in The New England Magazine) 
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'Viy'/'Вий', Nikolai Gogol 
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Bound by a Spell: The Hunted Witch of the Forest, Louisa Lilias Greene (1885) 
 
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'19, Great Hanover Street', Lillie Harris (1889, printed in Sheffield Weekly Telegraph - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive) 
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'Horror: A True Tale', John Berwick Harwood (1861, printed in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine) 
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'Absolute Evil', Julian Hawthorne (1918) 
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'The Devil's Christmas', Julian Hawthorne (1885, printed in the Norfolk Virginian) 
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'Ken's Mystery', Julian Hawthorne (1888 printed in David Poindexter's Disappearance, etc.) 
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'The Hollow of Three Hills', Nathaniel Hawthorne (1837, printed in Twice Told Tales) 
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'Young Goodman Brown', Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835) 
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'Bring Me a Light!', Mary Hooper (1861, printed in Once A Week, illustrated) 
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The Werewolf, Clemence Housman (1896, with illustrations) 
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'The Memoir', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy) 
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'The Operation', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy) 
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'The Telegram', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy) 
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'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', Washington Irving (1820) 
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'The Ghostly Rental', Henry James (1876, printed in Scribner's Monthly) 
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'The Romance of Certain Old Clothes', Henry James (1868) 
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'Sir Edmund Orme', Henry James (1892, printed in The Lesson of the Master) 
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The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (1898, printed in The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End) 
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'The Tractate Middoth', M. R. James (1911, printed in More Ghost Stories) 
 
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'The Beautiful Vampire', Arabella Kenealy (1896) 
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'The Mark of the Beast', Rudyard Kipling (1890) - 
(1890, printed in The Pioneer)  
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(1891, printed in Life’s Handicap) 
 
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'The Silent Woman'/'Die Schweigerin', Leopold Kompert 
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'Amor Dure', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories) 
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'Dionea', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories) 
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'Oke of Okehurst; or, the Phantom Lover', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories) 
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'A Wicked Voice', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories) 
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'Magic Lantern', Jean Lorrain (1891) 
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'The Spectral Hand'/'Le Main Gantée', Jean Lorrain (1895) - 
Original text in French by Jean Lorrain (1895, printed in Nightmares of an Ether Drinker/Sensations et Souvenirs) 
 
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'The Fate of Madame Cabanel', Eliza Lynn Linton (1872, printed in All the Year Round) 
 
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'The Gray Wolf', George MacDonald (1871, printed in Works of Fancy and Imagination, vol. 10) 
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'The Great God Pan', Arthur Machen (1894) 
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'The White People', Arthur Machen (1904, printed in Horlick's Magazine) 
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'The Sin-Eater', Fiona Macleod [aka William Sharp] (1895, printed in The Sin-Eater, and other Tales) 
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'The Devil of the Marsh', H. B. Marriott-Watson (1893, printed in Diogenes of London and other Fantasies and Sketches) 
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The Blood of the Vampire, Florence Marryat (1897) 
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'The Ghost of Charlotte Cray', Florence Marryat (1883) 
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'The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains', Frederick Marryat (1839, originally a single chapter within the novel The Phantom Ship, it has since been anthologized as a short story) 
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'The Horla', Guy de Maupassant (1886) 
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'The Wolf', Guy de Maupassant (1889, printed in The Odd Number) 
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The Amber Witch/Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe, Wilhelm Meinhold (1838) - 
Original text in German by Wilhelm Meinhold (1843) 
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Translated to English by E. A. Friedlander (1844) 
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Translated to English by Lady Gordon-Duff (1844; 1895 illustrated edition) 
 
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'A White Night', Charlotte Mew (1903, printed in Temple Bar) 
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'The Mysterious Card', Cleveland Moffett (1896, printed in The Black Cat) 
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'The Mysterious Card Unveiled' [sequel to 'The Mysterious Card], Cleveland Moffett (1896, printed in The Black Cat) 
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'Lady Farquhar's Old Lady', Mary Louisa Molesworth 
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'Gabriel-Ernest', Saki [aka Hector Hugh Munro] (1909) - 
(1909, printed in The Westminster Gazette on 29th May - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive 
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(1910, printed in Reginald in Russia, and other Sketches by Saki) 
 
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'The Ebony Frame', Edith Nesbit (1891) - 
(1891, printed in Longman's Magazine) 
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(1893, printed in Grim Tales) 
 
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'Hurst of Hurstcote', E. Nesbit (1893, printed in Temple Bar Magazine) 
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'Portent of the Shadow', E. Nesbit (1905, printed in The Index, illustrated) 
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'The Old Portrait', Hume Nisbet (1896, printed in Penny Illustrated Newspaper - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive) 
 
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'What Was It?', Fitz James O'Brien (1859, printed in Harper's Magazine) 
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'The Lady's Walk', Margaret Oliphant (1882, printed in Longman's Magazine; part 1, part 2) 
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'The Open Door', Margaret Oliphant 
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'Will', Vincent O'Sullivan (1899, printed in The Green Window) 
 
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'Berenice', Edgar Allan Poe (1835) 
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'The Black Cat', Edgar Allan Poe (1843, printed in United States Saturday Post) 
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'Eleonora', Edgar Allan Poe (1842) 
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'The Fall of the House of Usher', Edgar Allan Poe (1839) 
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'Ligeia', Edgar Allan Poe (1838, printed in The American Museum of Science) 
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'The Masque of the Red Death' [originally published as 'The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy'], Edgar Allan Poe (1842) 
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'Morella', Edgar Allan Poe (1835) 
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'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', Edgar Allan Poe (1841) - 
(1841, printed in Graham's Magazine) 
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(1843, printed in The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe) 
 
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'The Oval Portrait' [originally published as 'Life in Death], Edgar Allan Poe (1842) 
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'The Pit and the Pendulum', Edgar Allan Poe (1843) 
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'The Premature Burial', Edgar Allan Poe (1844, printed in The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper) 
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'The Raven', Edgar Allan Poe (1845) 
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'The Tell-Tale Heart', Edgar Allan Poe (1843) 
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'The Vampyre', John Polidori (1819) 
 
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'A Strange Christmas Game', Charlotte Riddell 
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'Nut Bush Farm', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories) 
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'The Old House in Vauxhall Walk', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories) 
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'Old Mrs. Jones', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories) 
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'The Open Door', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories) 
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'Sandy the Tinker', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories) 
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'Walnut-Tree House', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories) 
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'The Man-Wolf', Leitch Ritchie (1831, printed in The Romance of History, France) 
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'The Anticipator', Morley Roberts (1896, printed in The Sketch on 13th May - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive) 
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Varney, the Vampyre, James Malcolm Rymer (1845-47) 
 
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'The Tapestried Chamber: or the Lady in the Sacque', Sir Walter Scott (1829, printed in The Keepsake) 
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'The White Dog'/'Белая собака'/'Собака', Fyodor Sologub (1903) 
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'The Other Side: A Breton Legend', Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock (1893, printed in The Spirit Lamp) 
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'The True Story of a Vampire' [aka 'The Unhappy Vampire'], Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock (1894, printed in The Shadow of Death) 
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'Olalla', Robert Louis Stevenson (1885) - 
(1885, printed in The Court Society Review) 
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(1887, printed in The Merry Men and other Tales and Fables) 
 
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'The Christmas Shadrach', Frank R. Stockton (1891, printed in The Century Magazine) 
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'The Burial of the Rats', Bram Stoker (1896) 
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'The Coming of Abel Behenna', Bram Stoker (1893) 
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'Crooken Sands', Bram Stoker (1894) 
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Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897) 
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'Dracula's Guest', Bram Stoker (1914, printed in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories) 
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'A Dream of Red Hands', Bram Stoker (1894) 
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'The Gipsy Prophecy', Bram Stoker (1885) 
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'The Judge's House', Bram Stoker (1891) 
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The Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker (1911, illustrated) 
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'The Secret of Growing Gold', Bram Stoker (1892) 
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'The Squaw', Bram Stoker (1893) 
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'An Unscientific Story', Louise J. Strong (1903, printed in The Cosmopolitan, illustrated)  
 
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'To Let', Alice Turner Curtis (1896, printed in Black Cat Magazine) 
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'The Wicked Editor's Christmas Dream', Alice Mary Vince (1893, printed in Tamworth Herald - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive) 
 
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'The Canterville Ghost', Oscar Wilde (1887) - 
(1887, printed in The Court and Society Review) 
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(1891, printed in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories) 
 
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'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime', Oscar Wilde (1887) - 
(1887, printed in The Court and Society Review) 
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(1891, printed in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories) 
 
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (1890) 
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'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid', H. G. Wells (1894) - 
(1894, printed in Pall Mall Budget) 
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(1895, printed in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents; 1904 reprint of this publication) 
 
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The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells (1896, New York reprint of the original London publication) 
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'The Red Room', H. G. Wells (1896, printed in The Idler) 
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The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells (1898) 
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'A Mysterious Visitor', Ellen Wood (1857, printed in Bentley's Miscellany) 
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'The Little Room', Madeline Yale Wynne (1895, printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine) 
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'The Sequel to the Little Room', Madeline Yale Wynne (1895, printed in The Little Room and Other Stories