The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

INDEX The Gothic novel relied largely for its impressiveness on emphasizing ghostly scenes by representing aspects of weather to harmonize with the emotions of the characters. This was overworked in terror fiction, and while it still possesses power it is a much less common method of technique than it used to be. Poe’s introductory paragraph in The Fall of the House of Usher is a notable example of skill in creating atmosphere of the supernatural by various details including phenomena of weather, and Hardy shows special power in harmonizing nature to the moods and purposes of his characters. Yet many a modern story produces a profound sense of awe, and purges the soul by means of terror with no reference at all to foreboding weather. However, the allusions now made are more skillful and show more selective power than of old. Gothic fiction had much to say of melancholy birds that circled portentously over ancient castles filled with gloom and ghosts, but they were generic and not individual specimens. The fowl was always spoken of as “a bird of prey,” “a night bird,” “a bat,” “an owl,” or by some such vague term. Natural history has become more generally known since those times and writers of to-day introduce their ominous birds with more definiteness and appropriateness. The repulsive bat that clings to the window ledge in Bram Stoker’s novel is a vampire, a symbol of the whole horrible situation, as the kite that soars menacingly overhead in another of his novels is individualized and becomes a definite thing of terror. Poe’s raven is vastly more a bird of evil than any specimen in the Gothic aviary. Robert W. Chambers brings in a cormorant several times as a portent of ghostly disaster, particularly foreboding when it turns toward the land. “On the dark glistening cliffs, silhouetted against the glare of the sea, sat a cormorant, black, motionless, its horrible head raised toward heaven.” There is in recent fiction no bird more dreadful in import than the belled buzzard that Irvin Cobb makes the leading figure in his story by that name. This is an excellent example of the use of the natural to produce terror and awe, for the murderer sees in the bird a minister of fate, and the faint tinkle of its bell as it soars over the marsh where the body lies buried paralyzes him with horror. At last he can bear no more, and hearing it, as he thinks, close at hand, he shrieks out his confession,—only to find this time that it is not the belled buzzard at all that he hears, but only an old cowbell that a little negro child has picked up in the barnyard! Robert W. Chambers in his early stories contrives to give varying supernatural effects by descriptions of shadows as symbolic of life and character. He speaks of shadows of spirits or of persons fated to disaster as white; again his supernatural shadows may be gray—gray is a favored shade for ghostly effect whether for witches or for phantoms—and sometimes they are perfectly black, to indicate differing conditions of destiny. Quiller-Couch has a strange little allegory, The Magic Shadow , and other writers have used similar methods to produce uncanny effects. The Gothic romance made much use of portents of the supernatural, which later fiction does as well, but differently and with greater skill. The modern stories for the most part abandon the conventional portents, the dear old clock forever striking twelve or one—there was no Gothic castle so impoverished as to lack such ghostly horologue!—the abbey bell that tolls at touch of spirit hands or wizard winds, the statuesque nose-bleed, the fire that burns blue at approach of a specter, and so forth. The later story is more selective in its aids to ghostly effect, and adapts the means desired to each particular case, so that it hits the mark. For instance, the sardonic laughter that sounds as the burglars are cracking the gate of heaven to get in, and imagining what they will find, is prophetic of the emptiness, the nothingness, that meets their astounded gaze when they are within. Ambrose Bierce in some of his stories describes the repulsiveness of the fleshly corpse, reanimated by the spirit, perhaps not the spirit belonging to it, with a loathly effect more awful than any purely psychic phantom could produce, which reminds us somewhat of the corpse come to life in Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s Death’s Jest Book . The horrors of invisibility in modern fiction avail to give a ghastly chill to the soul that visible apparitions rarely impart. Likewise the effect of mystery, of the incalculable element, in giving an impression of supernaturalism is a recognized method of technique in many stories, as the minister’s black veil in Hawthorne’s symbolic story. The unspeakable revolting suggestion in Edith Wharton’s The Eyes , where a man is haunted by two hideous eyes that “have the physical effect of a bad smell, whose look left a smear like a snail,” is built up with uncommon art. We do not realize how much is due to insanity and how much to the supernatural, when, after telling the story of his obsession, his fears that as a climax he will become like those Eyes, the man suddenly sees his reflection in the mirror and meets their dreadful gaze. “He and the image confronted each other with a glare of slowly gathering hate!” Mention might be made of an incident in a recently published literary drama, where a man seeks over the world for the unknown woman with whom he has fallen in love, and on his calling aloud in question as to who she is, “the grave, with nettle-bearded lips replied, ‘It is I, Death!’” These are only suggestions of numberless instances that might be given of a modern technique of supernaturalism that surpasses anything in Gothic fiction. The effectiveness of modern ghostly stories is aided by the suggestiveness of the unearthly given by the use of “sensitives,” animals or persons that are peculiarly alert to the occult impressions. We see in many stories that children perceive the supernatural presences more quickly than adults, as in Mrs. Oliphant’s story of the ghost returning to right a wrong, trying strenuously to make herself known to the grown person and realized only by a little child. In Belasco’s play the little boy is the first and for a long time the only one to sense the return of Peter Grimm. In Maeterlinck’s The Blind , the baby in arms is aware of the unearthly presences better than the men and women. Sometimes the sensitive is a blind person, as the old grandfather in another of Maeterlinck’s short plays, who is conscious of the approaching Death before any of the others, or blind Anna in D’Annunzio’s drama, The Dead City . Animals are quick to perceive supernatural manifestations. Cats in fiction are shown as being at ease in the presence of ghosts perhaps because of their uncanny alliance with witches, while dogs and horses go wild with fear. This is noticed in many stories, as in Bulwer-Lytton’s story of the haunted house where the dog dies of terror in the face of the ghostly phenomena. The Psychic Doctor told of in Blackwood’s uncanny stories, who goes to a house possessed by evil spirits, takes with him a cat and a dog which by their difference of action reveal to him the presence of the spirits long before they are visualized for him. In general, there is more power of suggestion in the later ghostly stories than in the earlier. The art is more subtle, the technique more skillfully studied, more artfully accidental. There is in modern fiction, notably the work of Poe, and that of many recent writers, Russian, French, and German as well as English, a type of supernaturalism that is closely associated with insanity. One may not tell just where the line is drawn, just how much of the element of the uncanny is the result of the broodings of an unbalanced brain, and how much is real ghostliness. Poe’s studies of madness verge on the unearthly, as do Maupassant’s, Hoffmann’s, and others. Josephine Daskam Bacon illustrates this genre in a recent volume of stories, The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchion , the plots centering round instances of paranoia occurring in the practice of a famous alienist,—yet they are not paranoia alone ! One instance is of a young girl who is haunted by the ghost of a nurse who has died because given the wrong medicine by mistake. She is on the border-line of insanity when her lover cries aloud that he would take the curse on himself for her if he could, which, by some unknown psychic law, does effect a transference which frees her and obsesses him. Another is that of a man in the insane asylum, who recognizes in a mysterious housekeeper the spirit of his wife, who comes from the grave to keep him company and vanishes on the day of his death. These are curious analyses of the idée fixe in its effect on the human mind, of insanity as a cause or effect of the supernatural. Barry Pain’s Celestial Grocery is a recent example, a story of a man whose madness carries him to another planet, showing him inverted aspects of life, where emotions are the only real things, all else but shadows. Du Maurier’s pathetic novel portraying the passion and anguish and joy of Peter Ibbetson that touches the thin line between sanity and madness, showing in his dream-metempsychosis a power to relive the past and even to live someone else’s life, is a striking example. One interesting aspect of that story is the point where the spirit of Mary changes from the dream-lover of twenty-eight to the ghost of the woman of fifty-two, since she has died and can no more come to her lover as she once did, but must come as her own phantom. There are extraordinary effects of insanity associated with the supernatural in the work of Ambrose Bierce, of Arthur Machen and others of the modern school. Italian literature shows some significant instances in Fogazzaro’s The Woman and D’Annunzio’s Sogno d’un Mattino di Primavera . As Lord Dunsany says of it, “Who can say of insanity,—whether it be divine or of the Pit?” We have noticed in preceding chapters two aspects of modern supernaturalism as distinguished from the Gothic,—the giving of cumulative and more terrible power to ghostly beings, and on the other hand the leveling influence that makes them more human. The access of horror and unearthly force as shown in the characters described by certain writers is significant. In the work of Bierce, Machen, Blackwood, Stoker, and others supernaturalism is raised to the nth power and every possible thrill is employed. The carrion ghosts of Bierce, animated by malignant foreign spirits, surpass the charnel shudders produced by the Gothic. Algernon Blackwood’s Psychic Invasions, where localities rather than mere apartments or houses alone are haunted, diabolized by undying evil influences with compound power, his Elementals that control the forces of wind and wave and fire to work their demon will, are unlike anything that the early terror novel conceived of. Horace Walpole and Mrs. Radcliffe knew no thrills like those of Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula who is an immemorial evil, a vampire and werewolf as well as man, with power to change himself into a vampire bat or animal of prey at will. The Unburied , by Josephine Daskam Bacon, is more horrific than any mere revenge ghost, however much it shrieked “Vindicta!” The diabolism in Arthur Machen’s work reeks obscurely of a Pit more horrible than epic or drama has portrayed. In general, many of the later ghostly characters are more complex, more intense in evil than the Gothic. While it is true that certain writers show a tendency to create supernatural characters having an excess of evil power beyond the previous uncanny beings, on the other hand there is an equally strong and significant tendency to reduce the ghostly beings nearer to the human. Fiction here, as frequently, seems ahead of general belief, and refuses to believe in the altogether evil. Ghosts, angels, witches, devils, werewolves, and so forth are now made more human, more like to man, yet without losing any of their ancient power to thrill. Ghosts in late literature have more of the mortal characteristics than ever before, as has been pointed out in a previous chapter. They look more human, more normal, they are clad in everyday garments of varied colors, from red shirts and khaki riding-habits to ball-gowns,—though gray seems the favored shade for shades as well as witches,—and they have lost that look of pallor that distinguished early phantoms. Now they are more than merely vaporous projections as they used to be, more than merely phantasmogenetic apparitions,—but are healthy, red-blooded spooks. They are not tongue-tied as their ancestors were, but are very chatty, giving forth views on everything they are interested in, from socialism to the present war. And their range of interests has widened immeasurably. It would seem that the literacy test has been applied to ghosts in recent fiction. Modern specters are so normal in appearance that often no one recognizes them as ghosts,—as in Edith Wharton’s story Afterwards , where the peculiar thing about the apparition haunting a certain house is that it is not till long afterwards that one knows it was a ghost. The man in the gray suit whom the wife thinks a chance caller is the spirit of a man not yet dead, a terrible living revenge-ghost, who finally takes his victim mysteriously away with him. Modern ghosts have both motions and emotions like men, hence mortals are coming to regard them more sympathetically, to have more of a fellow-feeling for them. Likewise the angels are now only a very little higher if any than men. Seraphs are democratic, and angels have developed a sense of humor that renders them more interesting than they used to be. The winged being that H. G. Wells’s vicar goes gunning for is a charming youth with a naïve satire, as the angels in Mark Twain’s story of heaven are realistically mortal and masculine in tastes. They care little for harps and crowns, grow fidgety under excess of rest, and engage in all sorts of activities, retaining their individual tastes. James Stephens’s archangel, seraph, and cherub are chatty, cordial souls with an avidity for cold potatoes and Irish companionship. The demons as well have felt the same leveling influence experienced by the ghosts and the angels. Only, in their case, the thing is reversed, and they are raised to the grade of humanity. We are coming to see, in modern fiction, at least, that the devil is not really black, only a pleasant mottled gray like ourselves. Satan, in Mark Twain’s posthumous novel, [225] is an affable young fellow, claiming to be the nephew and namesake of the personage best known by that name. Bernard Shaw’s devil is of a Chesterfieldian courtesy, willing to speed the parting as to welcome the coming guest. I have found no comic use of the werewolf or of the vampire, though there are several comic witch stories, yet all these personages are humanized in modern fiction. We feel in some recent supernatural stories a sense of a continuing current of life. These ghosts, devils, witches, angels, and so forth are too real to be cut short by an author’s Finis . Another aspect of the leveling influence is seen in the more than natural power of motion, feeling, and intelligence given to inanimate objects, machinery, plants, and animals, in late literature. The idea of endowing inanimate figures with life and personality is seen several times in Hawthorne’s stories, as his snow image, Drowne’s wooden image, the vivified scarecrow, Feathertop, that the witch makes. The clay figures that Satan in Mark Twain’s novel models, endues with life, then destroys with the fine, casual carelessness of a god, remind one of an incident from mythology. The statue in Edith Wharton’s The Duchess at Prayer that changes its expression, showing on its marble face through a century the loathing and horror that the living countenance wore, or Lord Dunsany’s jade idol [226] that comes with stony steps across the desolate moor to exact vengeance on four men helpless in its presence, has a more intense thrill than Otranto’s peripatetic statue. Lord Dunsany’s The Gods of the Mountains , of which Frank Harris says, “It is the only play which has meant anything to me in twenty years,” shows an inexorable fatality as in the Greek drama. Science is revealing wonderful facts and fiction is quick to realize the possibilities for startling situations in every field. So diabolic botanical specimens, animals endowed with human or more than human craft—sometimes gifted with immortality as well—add a new interest to uncanny fiction. And the new machines that make all impossibilities come to pass inspire a significant class of supernatural stories. In general, a new force is given to all things, to raise them to the level of the human. In the same way nature is given a new power and becomes man’s equal,—sometimes far his superior—in thought and action. The maelstrom in Poe’s story is more than merely a part of the setting,—it is a terrible force in action. Algernon Blackwood stresses this variously in his stories, as where Egypt is shown as a vital presence and power, or where the “goblin trees” are as awful as any of the other characters of evil, or in the wind and flame on the mountain that are elements of supernatural power, with a resistless lure for mortals, or in the vampire soil that steals a man’s strength. This may be illustrated as well from the drama, as in Maeterlinck’s where Death is the silent, invisible, yet dominant force, or in Synge’s where the sea is a terrible foe, lying in wait for man, or in August Stramm’s The Daughter of the Moor , where the moor is a compelling character of evil. Gothic fiction did associate the phenomena of nature with the moods of the action, yet in a less effective way. The aspects of nature in recent literature have been raised to the level of humanity, becoming mortal or else diabolic or divine. In general, in modern fiction, man now makes his supernatural characters in his own image. Ghosts, angels, devils, witches, werewolves, are humanized, made like to man in appearance, passions, and powers. On the other hand, plants, inanimate objects, and animals, as well as the phenomena of nature, are raised to the human plane and given access of power. This leveling process democratizes the supernatural elements and tends to make them almost equal. The present revival of interest in the supernatural and its appearance in literature are as marked in the drama as in fiction or poetry. Mr. E. C. Whitmore, in a recently published volume on The Supernatural in Tragedy , has ably treated the subject, especially in the Greek classic period and the Elizabethan age in England. His thesis is that the supernatural is most frequently associated with tragedy, and is found where tragedy is at its best. This may be true of earlier periods of the tragic drama, yet it would be going too far to make the assertion of the drama of the present time. The occult makes its appearance to a considerable extent now in melodrama and even in comedy, though with no decrease in the frequency and effectiveness of its use in tragedy. This only illustrates the widening of its sphere and its adaptability to varying forms of art. A brief survey of some of the plays produced in the last few years, most of them being seen in New York, will illustrate the extent to which the ghostly motifs are used on the stage of to-day. Double personality is represented [227] by Edward Locke, in a play which is said by critics to be virtually a dramatization of Dr. Morton Prince’s study, [228] where psychological apparatus used in laboratory experiments to expel the evil intruder from the girl, a chronoscope, a dynograph, revolving mirrors, make the setting seem truly psychical. But the most dramatic instance of the kind, of course, is the dramatization of Dr. Jekyll’s alter ego. The plays of Charles Rann Kennedy [229] and Jerome K. Jerome [230] are akin to the old mystery plays in that they personate divinity and show the miracle of Christly influence on sinful hearts. Augustus Thomas [231] and Edward Milton Royle [232] introduce hypnotism as the basis of complication and denouement. Supernatural healing, miraculous intervention of divine power, occur in plays by William Vaughan Moody, [233] Björnson, [234] and George M. Cohan. [235] Another [236] turns on converse with spirits, as does Belasco’s Return of Peter Grimm , while a war play by Vida Sutton [237] shows four ghosts on the stage at once, astonishing phantoms who do not realize that they are dead. Others [238] have for their themes miracles of faith and rescue from danger, though the first-named play satirizes such belief and the latter is a piece of Catholic propaganda. Magic , by G. K. Chesterton, introduces supernatural forces whereby strange things are made to happen, such as the changing of the electric light from green to blue. Peter Ibbetson , the dramatization of Du Maurier’s novel, shows dream-supernaturalism, and various other psychic effects in a delicate and distinctive manner. And The Willow Tree , by Benrimo and Harrison Rhodes, is built upon an ancient Japanese legend, relating a hamadryad myth with other supermortal phantasies, such as representing a woman’s soul as contained in a mirror. We have fairy plays by J. M. Barrie, [239] W. B. Yeats, [240] and Maeterlinck, [241] and the mermaid has even been staged, [242] Bernard Shaw shows us the devil in his own home town, while Hauptmann gives us Hannele’s visions of heaven. The Frankenstein theme is used to provoke laughter mixed with thrills. [243] Owen and Robert Davis [244] symbolize man’s better angel, while The Eternal Magdalene , a dream-drama, shows another piece of symbolic supernaturalism. Lord Dunsany’s plays have already been mentioned. Yet the drama, though showing a definite revival of the supernatural, and illustrating various forms of it, is more restricted than fiction. Many aspects of the occult appear and the psychic drama is popular, but the necessities of presentation on the stage inevitably bar many forms of the ghostly art that take their place naturally in fiction. The closet drama does not come under this limitation, for in effect it is almost as free as fiction to introduce mystical, symbolic, and invisible presences. The closet drama is usually in poetic form and poetry is closer akin to certain forms of the supernatural than is prose, which makes their use more natural. The literary playlet, so popular just now, uses the ghostly in many ways. One shows the Archangel Raphael with his dog, working miracles, while another includes in its dramatis personæ a faun and a moon goddess who insists on giving the faun a soul, at which he wildly protests. As through suffering and human pain he accepts the gift, a symbolic white butterfly poises itself on his uplifted hand, then flits toward Heaven. In another, Padraic yields himself to the fairies’ power as the price of bread for the girl he loves. Theodore Dreiser’s short plays bring in creatures impossible of representation on the stage, “persistences” of fish, animals, and birds, symbolic Shadows, a Blue Sphere, a Power of Physics, Nitrous Acid, a Fast Mail (though trains have been used on the stage), and so forth. Instances from recent German drama might be given, as the work of August Stramm, who like Rupert Brooke and the ill-starred poets of the Irish revolution has fallen as a sacrifice to the war. An article in the Literary Digest says of Stramm that “he felt behind all the beauty of the world its elemental passions and believed these to be the projections of human passions in the waves of wind and light and water, in flames of earth.” He includes among his characters [245] a Spider, Nightingales, Moonlight, Wind, and Blossoms. Carl Hauptmann [246] likewise shows the elemental forces of nature and of super-nature. On the battlefield of death the dead arise to join in one dreadful chant of hate against their enemies. Leonid Andreyev’s striking play [247] might be mentioned as an example from the Russian. King-Hunger, Death, and Old time Bell-Ringer, are the principal actors, while the human beings are all deformed and distorted, “one continuous malicious monstrosity bearing only a remote likeness to man.” The starving men are slain, but over the field of the dead the motionless figure of Death is seen silhouetted. But the dead arise, and a dull, distant, manifold murmur, as if underground, is heard, “We come! Woe unto the victorious!” But as I have said, these are literary dramas, impossible of presentation on the stage, so that they are judged by literary rather than dramatic standards. For the most part fiction is infinitely freer in its range and choice of subjects from the supernatural than is the drama. The suggestive, symbolic, mystic effects which could not in any way be presented on the stage, but which are more truly of the province of poetry, are used in prose that has a jeweled beauty and a melody as of poetry. Elements such as invisibility, for instance, and various occult agencies may be stressed and analyzed in fiction as would be impossible on the stage. The close relation between insanity and the weird can be much more effectively shown in the novel or short story than in the drama, as the forces of mystery, the incalculable agencies can be thus better emphasized. Ghosts need to be seen on the stage to have the best effect, even if they are meant as “selective apparitions” like Banquo, and if thus seen they are too corporeal for the most impressive influence, while in fiction they can be suggested with delicate reserve. Supernatural presences that could not be imaged on the boards may be represented in the novel or story, as Blackwood’s Elementals or Psychic Invasions. How could one stage such action, for instance, as his citizens turning into witch-cats or his Giant Devil looming mightily in the heavens? Likewise in fiction the full presentation of scientific supernaturalism can be achieved, which would be impossible on the stage. In conclusion, it might be said that fiction offers the most popular present vehicle for expression of the undoubtedly reviving supernaturalism in English literature. And fiction is likewise the best form, that which affords the more varied chances for effectiveness. The rising tide of the unearthly in art shows itself in all literary forms, as dramatic, narrative, and lyric poetry, with a few epics—in the playlet as in the standard drama, in the short story as in the novel. It manifests itself in countless ways in current literature and inviting lines of investigation suggest themselves with reference to various aspects of its study. The supernatural as especially related to religion offers an interesting field for research. The miracles from the Bible are often used, as in Lew Wallace’s Ben Hur , and Christ is introduced in other times and places, as the war novel, [248] or in Marie Corelli’s satire on Episcopacy, [249] where the cardinal finds the Christ child outside the cathedral. The more than mortal elements, as answers to prayer, the experience of conversion, spiritual miracles, and so forth, are present to a considerable extent in modern fiction. Two very recent novels of importance base their plots on the miraculous in religion, The Brook Kerith , by George Moore, and The Leather-wood God , by William Dean Howells. I have touched on this aspect of the subject in a previous article. [250] One might profitably trace out the appearances of the ghostly in modern poetry, or one might study its manifestations in the late drama, including melodrama and comedy as well as tragedy. This present treatment of the supernatural in modern English fiction makes no pretensions to being complete. It is meant to be suggestive rather than exhaustive, and I shall be gratified if it may help to arouse further interest in a significant and vital phase of our literature and lead others to pursue the investigations. INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z A Accusing Spirit, The , 21 Address to the De’il, An , 131 Æsop, Fables , 231 Affair of Dishonor, An , 91 Afterwards , 102 , 202 Afterwards , 302 Ahasuerus, 176 Ahrinziman , 88 , 183 , 213 Aids to Gothic Effect, 36 et seq. Ainsworth, W. H., 181 Albigenses, The , 9 , 11 , 94 , 168 , 288 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 63 —— Miss Mehitabel’s Son , 68 , 85 , 287 —— Père Antoine’s Date Palm , 63 —— Queen of Sheba, The , 122 Amazonian Tortoise Myths , 232 Amboyna , 41 Amiel, Friedrich, 144 Among the Immortals , 217 Amos Judd , 40 , 257 Amphitryon , 122 Amycus and Celestine , 63 Anansi Stories , 232 Ancient Legends and Superstitions of Ireland , 229 Ancient Records of the Abbey of St. Oswyth , 9 , 21 Ancient Sorceries , 65 , 105 , 124 , 153 , 194 Andersen, Hans Christian, 155 , 176 , 233 —— The Little Mermaid , 155 , 176 , 233 Andreyev, Leonidas, 69 —— King-Hunger ,308 —— Red Laugh, The , 69 —— Silence , 293 Angel Island , 294 Angel Message, An , 207 Ankerwich Castle , 34 Another Little Heath Hound , 290 Anti-Jacobin, The , 51 Any House , 307 Apuleius, Lucius, Metamorphoses , 145 Applier, Arthur, Vendetta of the Jungles, A , 168 Arabian Nights’ Tales , 252 Architecture, Gothic, 8 et seq. Ariel, or the Invisible Monitor , 24 Arnim, Achim von, Die Beiden Waldemar , 122 Arnold, Edwin Lester, Strange Adventures of Phra, the Phœnician, The , 188 Arnold, Matthew: —— Forsaken Merman, The , 155 ,233 —— Neckan, The , 155 Arrest, An , 85 Arthur and Gorlogon , 30 Arthur Mervyn , 35 Artist of the Beautiful, The , 287 Astral Bridegroom, An , 207 At the End of the Passage , 120 At the Gate , 201 , 291 Auerbach, Berthold, 176 Austen, Jane, 47 , 49 —— Northanger Abbey , 47 , 51 Austin, Alfred, Peter Rugg, the Missing Man , 189 Austin, M. H., Readjustment , 107 Avengers, The , 56 Ayesha , 183 , 193 B Bacon, Josephine Daskam, 94 —— Children, The , 289 —— Heritage, The , 94 —— Miracle, The , 254 —— Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchion, The , 254 , 299 —— Unburied, The , 66 , 301 —— Warning, The , 276 Bahr-geist, The, 115 , 225 Balzac, Honoré de, 182 —— Elixir of Life, The , 60 —— Magic Skin, The , 60 —— Melmoth Réconcilié , 59 —— Unknown Masterpiece, The , 60 Bangs, John Kendrick, 112 , 293 —— Enchanted Typewriter, The , 207 , 286 —— House-boat on the Styx, The , 112 , 216 —— Pursuit of the House-boat, The , 112 , 187 , 216 —— Rebellious Heroine, The , 197 —— Speck on the Lens, The , 255 —— Thurlow’s Christmas Story , 121 —— Water-Ghost and Others, The , 112 Banshee, The, 99 Bardic Stories of Ireland , 243 Baring-Gould, S., 181 —— Eve , 246 Barker, Elsa, 206 , 207 —— Letters from a Living Dead Man , 207 —— War Letters from a Living Dead Man , 206 , 292 Barker, Granville, 123 , 198 —— Souls on Fifth , 123 , 198 , 215 Barrett, Eaton Stannard, 8 , 49 —— Heroine, The , 49 , 50 Barrie, J. M., 240 —— Little White Bird, The , 240 —— Peter Pan , 240 , 306 Baynim, John, 246 Baynim, Michael, 246 Beckford, William, 17 —— Vathek , 8 , 17 , 22 , 25 , 29 , 33 , 37 , 70 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 53 , 297 —— Death’s Jest Book , 53 , 115 , 297 Beetle, The , 290 Belasco, David, Return of Peter Grimm, The , 201 , 298 Beleaguered City, The , 211 Bellamy, Edward, 189 —— Looking Backward , 189 , 262 Belled Buzzard, The , 296 Benet, William Rose, Man with the Pigeons, The , 218 Ben Hur , 309 Bennett, Arnold, Ghost, The , 117 Beowulf , 281 Berenice , 62 Besant, Walter, Ivory Gate, The , 122 Betrothed, The , 225 Beyond Their Strength , 306 Bierce, Ambrose, 53 , 61 , 109 , 116 , 290 , 300 —— Arrest, An , 85 —— Damned Thing, The , 61 , 92 —— Death of Halpin Frazer, The , 110 , 192 —— Eyes of the Panther, The , 170 , 271 —— Middle Toe of the Right Foot, The , 61 , 92 —— Mysterious Disappearances , 259 —— Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The , 275 —— Two Military Executions , 116 —— Vine on the House, A , 90 Biology, Supernatural, 270 Biology, Supernatural in Gothicism, 34 Birthmark, The , 185 , 270 Bisclavret , 30 , 168 Bisland, Elizabeth, The Case of John Smith , 215 Björnson, Björnstjerne, 306 —— Beyond Their Strength , 306 Black Magic , 146 Black Monk, The , 69 Black Patch, The , 255 Blackmore, R. D., Lorna Doone , 226 Blackwood, Algernon, 68 , 76 , 79 , 85 , 96 , 105 , 166 , 171 , 235 , 273 , 285 , 287 , 300 , 304 , 309 —— Ancient Sorceries , 65 , 124 , 153 , 194 —— Camp of the Dog, The , 170 —— Clairvoyance , 289 —— Empty House, The , 98 , 117 —— Glamour of the Snow, The , 231 —— Haunted Island, A , 114 —— Heath Fire, The , 231 —— Human Chord, The , 275 —— Jules Le Vallon , 194 —— Keeping His Promise , 98 —— Man from the Gods, The , 121 —— Man Whom the Trees Loved, The , 230 , 272 —— Nemesis of the Fire, A , 98 —— Old Clothes , 124 , 194 —— Psychic Invasion, A , 106 —— Regeneration of Lord Ernie, The , 230 —— Return, The , 123 , 198 —— Sand , 230 —— Sea Fit, The , 230 —— Secret Worship , 105 , 117 , 137 —— Temptation of the Clay, The , 231 —— Terror of the Twins, The , 122 , 192 —— Transfer, The , 164 —— Wave, The , 194 —— With Intent to Steal , 62 , 117 Bleek, W. H. I., Reynard, the Fox, in South Africa , 232 Blind, The , 64 , 298 Blithedale Romance, The , 188 , 199 Blue-Bird, The , 64 , 278 , 280 , 306 Blue Roses , 268 Blue Sphere, The , 208 , 278 Blythe, James, Mine Host and the Witch , 148 Bon Bon , 95 , 141 Bones, Sanders, and Another , 156 Bonhote, Mrs., 20 —— Bungay Castle , 20 , 45 Book of the Serpent , 292 Book of Wonder, The , 245 Borderland, The , 124 Botany, Supernatural, 272 et seq. Bottle Imp, The , 70 Bottomley, Gordon, 65 , 153 , 285 —— Crier by Night, The , 65 , 238 —— Riding to Lithend , 152 Bowmen and Others, The , 204 , 258 , 282 Brand , 65 Brandes, Georg, 122 —— Romantic Reduplication and Personality , 122 Brentano, Die Mehreren Wehmüller , 122 Bride of Lammermoor, The , 38 Brieux, Eugene, 252 Brissot’s Ghost , 89 Brontë, Emily, 86 —— Wuthering Heights , 86 , 226 Brook Kerith, The , 310 Brooke, Rupert, 308 —— Failure , 222 —— Heaven , 221 , 283 —— On Certain Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society , 281 , 283 Brown, Alice, 101 , 211 —— Here and There , 101 , 107 —— Tryst, The , 126 , 211 Brown, Charles Brockden, 35 —— Arthur Mervyn , 35 —— Edgar Huntley , 39 —— Wieland , 35 , 39 Brownie of Bodbeck, The , 26 , 38 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 148 —— Drama of Exile, A , 133 —— Lay of the Brown Rosary, The , 148 Browning, Robert, 69 —— Sludge, the Medium , 69 Brushwood Boy, The , 195 Bubble Well Road , 138 Buchanan, Robert, 177 —— Wandering Jew, a Christmas Carol, The , 177 , 180 —— Haunters and the Haunted, The , 60 , 78 , 188 , 299 —— Strange Story, A , 90 , 182 Bungay Castle , 20 , 45 Bunyan, John, 213 Burger, 56 —— Lenore , 56 Burnett, Frances Hodgson, White People, The , 203 , 298 Burns, Robert, 232 —— Address to the De’il, An , 131 —— Tam O’Shanter , 156 Burns, Miss, Shropshire Folk-tales , 291 Butler, Ellis Parker, Dey Ain’t No Ghosts , 128 Butler, Katherine, —— In No Strange Land , 96 , 212 Butler, Samuel, 262 —— Erewhon , 262 By the Waters of Paradise , 83 Byron, Lord: —— Cain , 136 —— Giaour, The , 160 —— Heaven and Earth , 221 —— Vision of Judgment, A , 134 C Cable, George W., 226 Calderon, 27 , 133 —— El Embozado , 119 —— El Magico Prodigioso , 100 , 143 Camp of the Dog, The , 170 Campbell-Praed, Mrs., 207 —— Nyria , 207 Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, Extracts from , 201 , 217 Car of Phœbus, The , 207 Carmen Sylva, 176 , 233 Case of Becky, The , 305 Case of John Smith, The , 215 Castle of Caithness, The , 20 Castle of Otranto, The , 4 , 8 , 16 , 25 , 31 , 36 , 40 , 52 , 101 Castle of Wolfenbach, The , 48 Castle Specter, The , 53 Celestial Grocery, The , 265 , 300 Celestial Railroad, The , 213 , 265 , 300 Celtic Revival, The , 227 Celtic Twilight, The , 239 Chambers, Robert W., 87 , 290 , 296 —— The Messenger , 88 Chamisso, 59 , 176 —— Erscheinung , 122 Chansons de Gestes , 7 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 87 , 140 , 217 —— Friar’s Tale, The , 140 Chemistry, Supernatural, 267 Cher, Marie, 197 —— Immortal Gymnasts, The , 197 Chesterton, G. K., 306 —— Magic , 306 Children, The , 289 Children of the Mist, The , 226 Christabel , 148 , 238 Clairvoyance , 289 Clara Militch , 68 , 162 Clark, Rev. T., Wandering Jew, or the Travels of Bareach, the Prolonged, The , 178 Clarke, Laurence, 94 —— Grey Guest, The , 94 , 282 Clermont , 48 Cloak, The , 68 Closed Cabinet, The , 107 Cobb, Irvin, Belled Buzzard, The , 296 Cobb, Palmer, Influence of E.T.A. Hoffmann on Edgar Allan Poe, The , 58 Cocotte , 61 Coffin Merchant, The , 254 Cohan, George M., 306 —— Miracle Man, The , 306 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 65 , 118 —— Christabel , 148 , 238 —— Wanderings of Cain, The , 118 Collins, Wilkie, 78 —— Dream Woman, The , 78 —— Ghost Touch, The , 103 —— Haunted Hotel, The , 89 , 100 —— Queen of Hearts, The , 107 , 113 Collins, William, Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands , 74 Collison-Morley, Lacy, 202 —— Greek and Roman Ghost Stories , 202 Comer, Cornelia A. P., Little Grey Ghost, The , 118 Comus , 7 , 148 Confessions of a Justified Sinner , 29 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , 268 Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court, A , 189 , 262 , 286 Converse, F., 93 —— Co-operative Ghosts , 93 , 98 Conway, Hugh, 103 —— Our Last Walk , 103 Conway, M. D., 180 Cooper, J. Fenimore, 226 Co-operative Ghosts , 93 , 98 Corbin, John, 76 Corelli, Marie: —— Master Christian, The , 309 —— Romance of Two Worlds, A , 213 —— Sorrows of Satan, The , 136 , 144 Count Roderick’s Castle , or Gothic Times , 20 Countess Cathleen , 65 , 143 Courting of Dinah Shadd, The , 152 Coward, The , 61 Craddock, Charles Egbert, 83 , 104 , 226 —— His Unquiet Ghost , 83 Crawford, F. Marion, 37 , 68 , 94 , 109 , 116 , 117 —— Among the Immortals , 217 —— By the Waters of Paradise , 83 —— Dead Smile, The , 70 , 109 —— Doll’s Ghost , A, 98 —— For the Blood Is the Life , 62 , 78 , 162 —— Khaled , 62 , 70 , 147 —— Man Overboard , 97 —— Mr. Isaacs , 37 , 71 —— Screaming Skull, The , 60 , 89 , 92 —— Upper Berth, The , 100 —— Witch of Prague, The , 149 , 195 , 266 Crawford, Hope, Ida Lomond and Her Hour of Vision , 207 Creation , 277 Crier by Night, The , 65 , 238 Crock of Gold, The , 241 , 246 Croly, George, 179 —— Salathiel , or Tarry Thou Till I Come , 179 Crystal Egg, The , 263 Cuchulain of Muirthemne , 243 Culex , 290 Curran, Mrs. John H., Patience Worth , 197 , 207 Curse of the Cashmere Shawl, The , 153 Curse of the Fires and the Shadows, The , 154 Curse of the Wandering Jew, The , 177 Curtin, Jeremiah, 244 Curtis, George William, 121 , 258 —— Prue and I , 121 , 258 D Dacre, Mrs., 10 , 77 —— Zofloya , 10 , 17 , 28 , 33 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 53 , 154 , 251 Damned Thing, The , 61 , 92 Danby, Frank, Twilight , 268 Daniel and the Devil , 141 D’Annunzio, Gabriel, 66 —— Daughter of Jorio, The , 67 , 149 —— La Città Morta , 66 , 298 —— Sogno d’un Mattino di Primavera , 67 , 300 —— Sogno d’un Tramonto d’Autunno , 67 , 152 Dante, 27 , 130 , 133 , 144 , 209 , 215 Dark Nameless One, The , 155 Darwin, Charles, 73 , 251 Darwin, Erasmus, 14 Daughter of Jorio, The , 67 , 149 Daughter of the Moor, The , 304 Davis, Owen, and Robert, Any House , 307 Davis, Richard Harding, Vera, the Medium , 200 Day of My Death, The , 199 Days of the Comet, The , 264 Dead Are Singing, The , 282 Dead City, The , 298 Dead Ship of Harpswell, The , 187 Dead Smile, The , 70 , 109 Deakin, Lumley, 146 —— Red Debts , 146 Death of Halpin Frazer, The , 110 , 192 Death’s Jest Book , 53 , 115 , 297 Defoe, Daniel, 205 —— Apparition of Mrs. Veal , 205 —— History of Duncan Campbell, The , 225 Demi-gods, 242 Demi-gods, The , 219 , 221 Dæmonic Spirits, 158 et seq. Dæmonology, Gothic, 33 De Morgan, William Frend, 92 , 283 —— Affair of Dishonor, An , 91 —— Likely Story, A , 287 De Quincey, Thomas —— Avengers, The , 56 —— Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , 268 —— Dream Fugue , 15 —— Klosterheim , 56 —— On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth , 295 Descent into the Maelstrom, The , 231 , 253 Devil, The , 138 Devil and His Allies, The, 130 et seq. Devil, Gothic, The, 27 et seq. Devil and Tom Walker, The , 140 Devil in the Belfry, The , 141 Dey Ain’t No Ghosts , 128 Diamond Lens, The , 274 Dickey, Paul, 307 —— Last Laugh, The , 307 Dickens, Charles: —— Haunted House, The , 171 —— Signal Man, The , 114 Die Beiden Waldemar , 122 Die Braut von Corinth , 162 Die Mehreren Wehmüller , 122 Disassociation of a Personality, The , 305 Divine Adventure, The , 248 Dr. Bullivant , 185 Dr. Faustus , 15 , 143 Dr. Heidigger’s Experiment , 184 , 252 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , 120 , 268 , 305 Dog Harvey, The , 291 Doings of Raffles Haw, The , 267 Dolliver Romance, The , 183 , 184 Doll’s Ghost, A , 98 Door in the Wall, The , 258 Doppelgänger, 57 , 119 Doppelgänger, The , 122 Dorset, St. John, 159 —— Vampire, The , 159 Double Personality, 305 Doyle, A. Conan, 79 —— Doings of Raffles Haw, The , 267 —— Hound of the Baskervilles, The , 290 —— Los Amigos Fiasco, The , 187 , 270 —— Lot No. 49 , 62 —— Secret of Goresthorpe Grange, The , 79 —— Silver Mirror, The , 259 —— Terror of Blue John Gap, The , 272 Dracula , 78 , 163 , 188 , 301 Dream, The , 68 Dream Fugue , 15 Dream Gown of the Japanese Ambassador, The , 79 Dream of Armageddon, A , 196 , 262 Dream of Provence, A , 293 Dream Woman, The , 78 Dreams, 13 , 77 Dreiser, Theodore: —— Blue Sphere, The , 208 , 278 —— In the Dark , 208 —— Laughing Gas , 278 —— Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural , 208 —— Spring Recital, A , 208 Dromgoole, Will Allen, 226 Dryden, John, 41 —— Amboyna , 41 Duchess at Prayer, The , 121 , 303 Duchess of Malfi, The , 8 , 166 Dumas, Alexandre, Père, 159 —— Le Vampire , 159 Du Maurier, George: —— Martian, The , 196 , 207 , 264 —— Peter Ibbetson , 186 , 196 , 206 , 300 —— Trilby , 267 Dunbar, Aldis, 244 Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 85 —— Shell of Sense, The , 85 , 212 Dunsany, Lord, 52 , 63 , 235 , 242 , 244 , 247 , 249 , 285 , 292 , 300 —— Book of Wonder, The , 245 —— Glittering Gate, The , 221 , 222 —— Gods of Pegana, The , 245 —— Gods of the Mountain, The , 244 , 303 —— Night at an Inn, A , 244 , 303 —— Time and the Gods , 245 —— Usury , 198 —— When the Gods Slept , 63 , 74 E Edgar Huntley , 39 Edwards, Amelia, 86 —— Four-fifteen Express, The , 86 Eel-King, The , 233 Eighty-third, The , 61 , 281 El Embozado , 119 Elementals, 300 Eleonora , 103 Eliot, George, 167 , 257 —— Lifted Veil, The , 157 Elixiere des Teufels , 57 Elixir of Life, The, 35 , 182 et seq. Elixir of Life, The , 60 Elixir of Youth, The , 186 Elizabethan Drama, The , 139 El Magico Prodigioso , 100 , 143 Elsie Venner , 170 Elves, 247 Emperor and Galilean , 42 , 66 Empty House, The , 98 , 117 Enchanted Typewriter, The , 207 , 286 Erckmann-Chatrian, 62 —— Invisible Eye, The , 62 —— Owl’s Ear, The , 62 —— Waters of Death, The , 62 Erewhon , 262 Erscheinung , 122 Eternal Magdalen, The , 27 Eternal Mystery, The , 306 Ethelwina, or the House of Fitz-Auburne , 25 Eubule-Evans, A., 177 —— Curse of the Wandering Jew, The , 177 Eve , 246 Evil Eye, The , 152 Exchange, The , 153 , 156 , 197 Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven, An , 217 Eyes, The , 297 Eyes of the Panther, The , 170 , 271 F Fable for Critics, A , 57 Fables , 231 Facts in the Case of M. Waldemar , 266 Faerie Queene, The , 7 Failure , 22 Fair God, The , 246 Fairies of Pesth, The , 240 Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries , 237 Fairy, The, 239 et seq. Faith Healer, The , 306 Fall of the House of Usher, The , 295 Faraway Melody, A , 97 Faust , 143 , 175 Feathertop , 152 , 156 Fenn, George M., Man with the Shadow, The , 122 Fiction of the Irish Celts , 243 Field, Eugene, 141 —— Daniel and the Devil , 141 —— Eel-King, The , 233 —— Holy Cross, The , 181 —— Moon Lady, The , 233 —— Mother in Paradise, The , 213 —— Pagan Seal-wife, The , 233 —— Werewolf, The , 169 , 172 Finch, Lucine, Butterfly, The , 307 First Men in the Moon, The , 264 Fisherman and His Soul, The , 134 , 153 , 236 Fisk, Isabel Howe , 290 Flaireurs , 64 Flower of Silence, The , 273 Flowering of the Strange Orchid, The , 62 , 164 , 273 Flying Dutchman, The , 187 Fogazzaro, Antonio, 66 —— Saint, The , 66 —— Sinner, The , 66 —— Woman, The , 66 , 194 , 300 Folk-lore, 73 Ford, James L., 266 Forest Lovers , 149 Forsaken Merman, The , 155 , 233 For the Blood Is the Life , 62 , 78 , 162 Fouqué, Henri Auguste, 57 , 59 —— Undine , 57 Four-fifteen Express, The , 86 Fourth Dimension, The, 256 Fox, John, Jr., 226 France, Anatole, 63 —— Amycus and Celestine , 63 —— Isle of the Penguins, The , 63 —— Juggler of Notre Dame, The , 63 —— Mass of Shadows, The , 63 —— Putois , 63 —— Revolt of the Angels, The , 220 —— Scholasticus , 63 Frankenstein , 14 , 17 , 34 Franklin, Andrew, 176 —— Wandering Jew, The , 176 Freeman, Mary Wilkins, 78 —— Faraway Melody , 97 —— Hall Bedroom, The , 79 , 260 —— Shadows on the Wall, The , 78 , 99 , 104 , 226 Freud, 79 Friar’s Tale, The , 140 Fu Manchu Stories , 253 , 268 , 270 , 272 Furnished Room, The , 60 , 101 Future, Magic Views of the, 256 G Garland, Hamlin, 69 , 76 , 200 —— Shadow World, The , 200 —— Tyranny of the Dark, The , 200 Garments of Ghosts, 92 et seq. Gaston de Blondeville , 19 Gates Ajar, The , 210 Gates Between, The , 210 Gates Beyond, The , 210 Gautier, Théophile, 62 —— La Morte Amoreuse , 62 , 163 —— Mummy’s Foot, The , 62 —— Romance of the Mummy, The , 62 General William Booth Enters into Heaven , 217 German Romanticism, 67 Gerould, Gordon H., 202 —— Grateful Dead, The , 202 Gerould, Katherine Fullerton, 61 , 71 , 104 —— Eighty-Third, The , 61 , 281 —— Louquier’s Third Act , 61 —— On the Stairs , 83 , 114 , 122 Ghost, The , 60 Ghost at Point of Rock, The , 83 Ghost-children, 287 et seq. Ghost Moth, The , 290 Ghost of Miser Brimpson, The , 83 Ghost of the White Tiger , 291 Ghost Ship, The , 111 , 293 Ghost of Futurity, 114 Ghost of Jack, The, 110 Ghost Touch, The, 101 , 103 Ghostly Doubles, 119 Ghostly Odor, 100 Ghostly Perfume, 101 Ghostly Psychology, 106 Ghostly Sounds, 97 et seq. Ghosts, Gothic, 18 et seq. Ghosts, Modern, 81 et seq. Ghouls, 158 Giaour, The , 160 Gigantism, 36 Gilmore, Inez Haynes, 294 —— Angel Island , 294 Glamour of the Snow, The , 231 Glanville, Joseph, 191 Glasgow, Ellen, Shadowy Third, The , 203 Glass of Supreme Moments, The , 157 Glittering Gate, The , 221 , 222 Glover, Richard, Ballad of Hosier’s Ghost , 89 Gnoles, 247 Gnomes, 247 Goblin Market , 148 Goddard, Charles W., 307 —— Last Laugh, The , 307 Gods, 242 Gods and Fighting Men , 244 Gods of Pegana , 245 Gods of the Mountains, The , 244 , 303 Godwin, William, 35 , 182 —— St. Leon , 35 , 36 Goethe, 133 , 162 —— Die Braut von Corinth , 162 —— Faust , 143 , 175 Gogol, 68 —— Cloak, The , 68 Gothic Romance, 6 et seq. Granville, Charles, 179 —— Plaint of the Wandering Jew, The , 179 Great God Pan, The , 247 Great Stone of Sardis, The , 262 Greek and Roman Ghost Stories , 202 Gregory the Great, Dialogues , 202 Gregory, Lady, 229 , 234 , 237 , 240 , 285 —— Cuchulain of Muirthemne , 243 —— Gods and Fighting Men , 243 Grey Guest, The , 94 , 282 Grosse, Marquis, 49 —— Horrid Mysteries , 49 Guy Mannering , 150 Gypsy Christ, The , 181 H Hag, The , 148 Haggard, Rider, 183 , 193 —— Ayesha , 183 , 193 —— She , 183 Hale, Lucretia P., Spider’s Eye, The , 62 , 274 Hall Bedroom, The , 79 , 260 Hall of Eblis, The , 8 Hamlet , 18 , 118 , 144 Hand, The , 61 Hannele , 218 Hans Pfaal , 286 Happy Prince, The , 238 Hardy, Thomas: —— Return of the Native, The , 150 —— Tess of the D’ Urbervilles , 143 —— Under the Greenwood Tree , 150 —— Withered Arm, The , 225 Harper, Olive, Sociable Ghost, The , 111 Harris, Joel Chandler, 74 , 226 —— Uncle Remus Tales , 232 , 235 Hart, Charles F., Amazonian Tortoise Myths , 232 Hartley, Randolph, Black Patch, The , 255 Haunted Hotel, The , 89 , 100 Haunted House, The , 171 Haunted Island, A , 114 Haunted Subalterns, The , 138 Haunters and the Haunted, The , 60 , 78 , 188 , 299 Hauptmann, Carl, 282 —— Dead Are Singing, The , 282 Hauptmann, Gerhardt: —— Hannele , 218 —— Sunken Bell, The , 158 Hawkesworth, John, 70 , 190 —— Transmigration of a Soul , 190 Hawthorne, Julian, 121 —— Lovers in Heaven , 121 , 144 , 213 Hawthorne, Nathaniel: —— Artist of the Beautiful, The , 287 —— Birthmark, The , 185 , 270 —— Blithedale Romance, The , 188 , 199 —— Celestial Railroad, The , 213 —— Dr. Heidigger’s Experiment , 184 , 252 —— Dolliver Romance, The , 183 , 184 —— Feathertop , 152 , 156 —— House of Seven Gables, The , 158 —— Howe’s Masquerade , 122 —— Intelligence Office, The , 265 —— Main Street , 152 —— Marble Faun, The , 57 —— Prophetic Pictures , 121 —— Rappacini’s Daughter , 252 , 272 —— Scarlet Letter, The , 152 —— Select Party, A , 178 —— Septimius Felton , 143 , 150 , 183 , 252 —— Virtuoso’s Collection, A , 78 —— Young Goodman Brown , 151 Hearn, Lafcadio, 1 , 77 —— Interpretations of Literature , 1 , 77 Heath Fire, The , 231 Heaven , 221 , 283 Heaven and Earth , 221 Heijermans, 176 Hellas , 176 Henry, O., Furnished Room, The , 60 , 101 Here and There , 101 , 107 Heretic, The , 207 Heritage, The , 94 Herodotus, 166 Heroes, 242 Heroine, The , 49 , 50 Herrick, Robert, Hag, The , 148 Hewlett, Maurice, Forest Lovers , 149 Heywood, Eliza, Lasselia , 42 His Unquiet Ghost , 83 History of Duncan Campbell, The , 255 History of Jack Smith, or the Castle of St. Donats , 20 Hoax Ghosts, 82 Hodder, Reginald, Vampire, The , 68 , 163 Hoffmann, David, 181 Hoffmann, E. T. A., 51 , 59 , 69 , 182 , 190 , 199 —— Doppelgänger , 58 —— Elixiere des Teufels , 58 —— Kater Murr , 58 —— Magnetiseur , 58 Hogg, James: —— Brownie of Bodbeck , 26 , 38 —— Confessions of a Justified Sinner , 29 —— Hunt of Eildon, The , 26 , 27 , 30 , 32 —— Witch of Fife, The , 148 —— Wool-gatherer, The , 23 , 29 , 30 , 32 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Elsie Venner , 170 Holy Cross, The , 181 Horrid Mysteries , 49 Horsley-Curties, T. J., 9 —— Ancient Records or the Abbey of St. Oswyth , 9 , 12 , 21 , 32 , 42 , 43 —— Ethelwina, or the House of Fitz-Auburne , 25 , 38 Hound of the Baskervilles, The , 290 Hound of Heaven, The , 283 House of Judgment, The , 214 House of Souls, The , 271 House-boat on the Styx, The , 112 , 216 House of Seven Gables, The , 158 Howells, William Dean, 76 —— Leatherwood God, The , 310 —— Undiscovered Country, The , 200 , 267 Howe’s Masquerade , 122 Human, Chord, The , 275 Human Personality , 202 Humorous Ghosts, 110 Hunt, Leigh, 105 Hunt of Eildon, The , 26 , 27 , 30 , 32 Huxley, Thomas Henry, 73 , 252 Hyde, Dr., Paudeen O’Kelley and the Weasel , 237 I Ibsen, Henrik, 35 , 42 —— Brand , 65 —— Emperor and Galilean , 42 , 66 —— Lady from the Sea, The , 66 —— Master Builder , 35 , 66 —— Pretenders, The , 65 —— Rosmersholm , 66 —— Vikings of Helgeland, The , 65 Ida Lomond and Her Hour of Vision , 207 Immortal Gymnasts, The , 197 In Castle Perilous , 118 In Mr. Eberdeen’s House , 124 In No Strange Land , 96 , 212 In the Dark , 208 In the House of Suddoo , 146 Inferno , 144 Insanity and the Supernatural, 69 , 299 Insanity in Gothic Fiction, 35 et seq. Intelligence Office, The , 265 Interior , 64 Interpretations of Literature , 1 , 77 Intricate Personality of Specters, 119 Invisible Man, The , 95 , 269 Invisible Eye, The , 62 Irving, Washington, 110 , 226 —— Devil and Tom Walker, The , 140 —— Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The , 89 —— Rip Van Winkle , 246 —— Specter Bridegroom, The , 83 , 110 —— Tales of the Alhambra , 226 Island of Dr. Moreau, The , 271 Isle of the Penguins, The , 63 Italian, The , 48 Ivan, the Fool , 68 , 138 , 144 Ivory Gate, The , 122 In the Track of the Wandering Jew , 178 J Jacobs, W. W., Monkey’s Paw, The , 98 , 253 James, Henry: —— Jolly Corner, The , 122 —— Turn of the Screw, The , 86 , 91 , 109 Janvier, Thomas A., Legends of the City of Mexico , 226 Jealousy of Ghosts, 117 Jeanne, The Maid , 282 Jerome, Jerome K., Passing of the Third Floor Back, The , 305 Jewel of Seven Stars, The , 191 , 274 Jigar-Khor, The, 165 John Inglesant , 87 , 98 Johnson, Arthur, In Mr. Eberdeen’s House , 124 Johnston, Mary, Witch, The , 150 Jolly Corner, The , 122 Joyzelle , 64 Judgment of God, The , 234 Juggler of Notre Dame, The , 63 Jules Le Vallon , 194 Julius Cæsar , 18 , 84 Jungle Tales , 232 K Kaffir Tales , 232 Kater Murr , 58 Keats, John, 148 —— La Belle Dame sans Merci , 148 —— Lamia , 162 Keeping His Promise , 98 Kelpie, The, 155 Kennedy, Charles Rann, Servant in the House, The , 66 , 305 Kennedy, Patrick, 243 —— Bardic Stories of Ireland , 243 —— Fiction of the Irish Celts , 243 Kentucky’s Ghost , 199 Kerfol , 290 Khaled , 62 , 70 , 147 Kinetoscope of Time, The , 256 King, Basil, 203 —— Old Lady Pingree , 203 King Lear , 13 Kingdom Come , 282 , 306 Kingemann, 176 King Hunger , 207 , 308 Kingsley, Charles, Water Babies , 240 Kipling, Rudyard, 53 , 71 , 99 , 104 , 180 —— At the End of the Passage , 120 —— Brushwood Boy, The , 195 —— Bubble Well Road , 138 —— Courting of Dinah Shadd, The , 152 —— Dog Harvey, The , 291 —— Haunted Subalterns, The , 138 —— In the House of Suddoo , 146 —— Jungle Tales , 232 —— Last of the Stories, The , 197 ,215 —— Mark of the Beast, The , 100 , 167 —— Phantom Rickshaw, The , 88 , 94 —— Swept and Garnished , 94 , 282 , 288 —— They , 84 , 93 , 288 Kittredge, George Lyman, 30 , 224 —— Arthur and Gorlogon , 30 Kleist, 59 Klosterheim , 56 Knock! Knock! Knock! 68 Kummer, Frederick Arnold, Second Coming, The , 281 Kundry, 181 L Le Belle Dame sans Merci , 148 La Città Morta , 66 , 299 Lady from the Sea, The , 66 La Horla , 61 , 95 Lair of the White Worm, The , 188 Lais , 7 Lamia , 162 La Morte Amoreuse , 62 , 163 Land of Darkness, The , 212 Land of Heart’s Desire, The , 65 , 240 , 306 Lang, Andrew, 118 , 188 , 242 —— In Castle Perilous , 118 —— St. Germain, the Deathless , 188 Lasselia , 42 Last Ghost in Harmony, The , 104 , 201 Last Laugh, The , 307 Last of the Stories, The , 197 , 215 Later Influences, 54 et seq. Latham, Francis, Midnight Bell , 49 Laughing Gas , 278 Lay of the Brown Rosary, The , 148 Leatherwood God, The , 310 Leaves from the Autobiography of a Soul in Paradise , 207 Lee, Robert James: —— Astral Bridegroom, An , 207 —— Car of Phœbus, The , 207 —— Heretic, The , 207 —— Leaves from the Autobiography of a Soul in Paradise , 207 —— Life Elysian, The , 207 —— Through the Mists , 208 —— Vagrom Spirit, The , 207 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The , 89 Legend of Sharp, A , 134 Leprechauns, 239 Letters from a Living Dead Man , 207 Le Vampire , 159 Lewis, Arthur, 242 —— London Fairy Tales , 242 Lewis, Mary L., Stranger than Fiction , 207 Lewis, Matthew Gregory (“Monk”), 14 , 16 , 77 —— Castle Specter, The , 53 —— Monk, The , 12 , 16 , 22 , 24 , 26 , 27 , 30 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 37 , 177 Liebgeber Schappe , 122 Life after Death, 209 et seq. Lifted Veil, The , 257 Ligeia , 123 , 191 Likely Story, A , 287 Lindsay, Nicholas Vachell, General William Booth Enters into Heaven , 217 Little Crow of Paradise, The , 234 Little Gray Ghost, The , 118 Little Mermaid, The , 155 , 176 , 233 Little Pilgrim in the Unseen, The , 212 Little White Bird, The , 240 Lloyd, N. M., Last Ghost in Harmony, The , 104 , 201 Locke, Edward, Case of Becky, The , 305 Lodge, Sir Oliver, 74 —— Raymond, or Life and Death , 75 London Fairy Tales , 242 London, Jack: —— Scarlet Plague, The , 262 —— Star Rover, The , 264 Long Chamber, The , 118 Looking Backward , 189 , 262 Los Amigos Fiasco, The , 187 , 270 Loss of Breath, The , 74 Lot No. 49 , 62 Louquier’s Third Act , 61 Love Philter, The , 267 Lovers in Heaven , 121 , 144 , 213 Lowell, James Russell, Fable for Critics , A, 57 Lucas, Charles, History of Jack Smith, or the Castle of St. Donats, The , 20 Lycanthrope, The , 39 Lytton, Edward George, Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st baron, 60 M Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 110 Macbeth , 18 , 98 , 153 , 295 Machen, Arthur, 52 , 70 , 79 , 117 , 247 , 250 , 300 , 301 —— Bowmen and Others, The , 204 , 258 , 282 —— Hill of Dreams, The , 79 —— House of Souls, The , 271 —— Monstrance, The , 288 —— Red Hand, The , 247 —— Seeing the Great God Pan , 139 —— Three Impostors, The , 247 , 269 Mad , 61 Mad Lady, The , 286 Madness , 61 Maeterlinck, Maurice, 6 , 42 , 64 , 299 —— Blind, The , 64 , 298 —— Blue-bird, The , 64 , 278 , 289 , 306 —— Interior ,64 —— Intruder, The , 64 , 304 —— Joyzelle , 64 Magic, 306 Magic Shadow, The , 296 Magic Skin, The , 60 Magnetiseur , 58 Maighdeanmhara, The, 155 Main Street , 152 Man and Superman , 217 Man in Black, The , 137 Man from the Gods, The , 121 Man Overboard , 97 Man with a Shadow, The , 122 Man Whom the Trees Loved, The , 230 , 272 Man with the Pigeons, The , 218 Man Who had been in Fairyland, The , 241 MS. found in a Bottle, The , 253 Marble Faun, The , 57 Marie de France, 30 , 118 —— Bisclavret , 30 , 168 Markheim , 120 Mark of the Beast, The , 100 , 167 Marlowe, Christopher, 27 , 153 —— Doctor Faustus , 15 , 143 Marsh, Richard, Beetle, The , 290 Martian, The , 196 , 207 , 264 Mass of Shadows, The , 63 Master Builder, The , 35 , 66 Master Christian, The , 309 Mather, Cotton, 130 Matthews, Brander: —— Dream Gown of the Japanese Ambassador, The , 79 —— Kinetoscope of Time, The , 256 —— Primer of Imaginary Geography, A , 181 , 216 —— Rival Ghosts , 112 Maturin, Charles Robert, 9 , 17 , 38 , 59 , 182 —— Albigenses, The , 9 , 11 , 94 , 168 , 288 —— Melmoth, the Wanderer , 8 , 10 , 12 , 24 , 26 , 36 , 41 , 44 , 138 Maupassant, Guy de, 60 , 69 , 299 —— Cocotte , 61 —— Coward, The , 61 —— Ghost, The , 60 —— Hand, The , 61 —— La Horla , 61 , 95 —— Mad , 61 —— Madness , 61 —— Tress, The , 61 —— Wolf, The , 172 McDonald, George, Portent, The , 266 McLeod, Fiona: —— Dark Nameless One, The , 155 —— Divine Adventure, The , 248 —— Judgment of God, The , 234 —— Sin Eater, The , 138 Mechanistic Supernaturalism, 286 et seq. Meg Merrilies, 150 Meinhold, 56 Melmoth Réconcilié , 59 Melmoth, the Wanderer , 8 , 10 , 12 , 24 , 26 , 36 , 41 , 44 , 138 Meredith, George, 71 , 127 —— Shaving of Shagpat, The , 71 Merlin, 145 Mermaid, The, 234 Mermaid, The , 306 Merman and the Seraph, The , 234 Meroe, 145 Mesmeric Revelations , 266 Messenger, The , 88 Metamorphoses , 145 Metempsychosis, 180 et seq. Metzengerstein , 287 , 291 Middle Toe of the Right Foot, The , 61 , 92 Middleton, Jessie Adelaide, 92 —— Ghost with Half a Face, The , 92 Middleton, Richard, 111 , 288 —— Coffin Merchant, The , 254 —— Ghost Ship, The , 111 , 293 —— Passing of Edward, The , 99 , 288 Midnight Bell , 49 Midsummer Night’s Dream, A , 64 Milne-Horne, Mary Pamela, Anansi Stories , 232 Milton, John, 27 , 133 , 239 —— Comus , 7 , 148 —— Paradise Lost , 144 , 209 , 211 , 215 Mine Host and the Witch , 148 Miracle, The , 254 Miracle Man, The , 306 Miss Mehitabel’s Son , 63 , 68 , 85 , 287 Mistaken Ghost, The , 62 Mitchell, J. A., Amos Judd , 40 , 257 Molnar, Fernac, Devil, The , 138 Monastery, The , 225 Monk, The , 12 , 16 , 22 , 24 , 26 , 27 , 30 , 33 , 35 , 37 , 177 Monkey’s Paw, The , 98 Monstrance, The , 288 Moody, William Vaughn, Faith Healer, The , 306 Moon Lady, The , 233 Moon Madness , 139 , 231 Moore, George, Brook Kerith, The , 310 Morella , 123 , 190 Morris, William, 236 , 250 —— Water of the Wondrous Isle, The , 236 —— Well at the World’s End, The , 236 —— Wood beyond the World, The , 236 Mosen, Julius, 176 Mother in Paradise, The , 213 Motives for Ghost Appearance, 113 Mr. Isaacs , 37 , 71 Mrs. Veal , 205 Mummy’s Foot, The , 62 Mummy’s Tale, The , 110 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror , 225 Myers, Human Personality , 202 Mysteries of Udolpho, The , 9 , 48 Mysterious Mother, The , 53 Mysterious Stranger, The , 142 Mysterious Warnings , 49 Mystery and Mystification in Gothicism, 43 Mystery of Joseph Laquedem, The , 181 , 195 Myths and Legends of Our Land , 187 N Nathan, George Jean, Eternal Mystery, The , 306 Neckan, The , 155 , 233 Nemesis of Fire, A , 98 Never Bet the Devil Your Head , 140 New Accelerator, The , 286 New Arabian Nights, The , 70 Night at an Inn, A , 244 , 303 Night Call, The , 83 Nightingale and the Rose, The , 235 , 293 Nightmare Abbey , 51 Norris, Frank, Vandover and the Brute , 167 Northanger Abbey , 47 , 51 Notch on the Axe, The , 89 , 188 Noyes, Alfred, Creation , 277 Nyria , 207 O O’Brien, Fitz-James, 61 —— Diamond Lens, The , 274 —— What Was It? A Mystery , 61 , 96 Occult Magazine, The , 163 Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The , 275 Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands , 74 O’Donnell, Elliot, 88 , 110 —— Mummy’s Tale, The , 110 —— Werewolves , 170 Old Clothes , 124 , 194 Old English Baron, The , 16 , 19 , 40 Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts , 154 Old Lady Mary , 211 Old Men of the Twilight, The , 234 Old Wives’ Tale , 110 , 145 Oliphant, Mrs. Margaret: —— Beleaguered City, The , 211 —— Land of Darkness, The , 212 —— Little Pilgrim in the Unseen, The , 212 —— Old Lady Mary , 211 , 298 —— Open Door, The , 211 —— Portrait, The , 211 On Certain Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society , 221 On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth , 295 On the Stairs , 61 , 114 , 122 Open Door, The , 211 Origin of Individual Gothic Tales, 13 et seq. O’Shaughnessy, Arthur, 168 Our Last Walk , 103 Oval Portrait, The , 58 Ovid, 166 Owl’s Ear, The , 62 P Pagan Seal-wife, The , 233 Page, Thomas Nelson, 226 Pain, Barry, 53 , 79 , 157 —— Blue Roses , 268 —— Celestial Grocery, The , 265 , 300 —— Exchange, The , 153 , 156 , 197 —— Glass of Supreme Moments, The , 157 —— Love Philter, The , 267 —— Moon Madness , 139 , 231 —— Undying Thing, The , 271 —— Wrong Elixir, The , 186 —— Zero , 257 Paine, Albert Bigelow, Elixir of Youth, The , 186 Pair of Hands, A , 103 , 288 Pangborn, Georgia Wood, Substitute, The , 88 Paradise Lost , 144 , 209 , 211 , 215 Parsifal , 181 Parsons, Francis, Borderland, The , 124 Parsons, Mrs. M., Mysterious Warnings , 49 Passing of Edward, The , 99 , 288 Passing of the Third Floor Back, The , 66 , 303 Passionate Crime, The , 242 Patience Worth , 197 , 207 Paudeen O’Kelley and the Weasel , 237 Peacock, Thomas Love, Nightmare Abbey , 51 Pearce, J. H., Little Crow of Paradise, The , 234 Peele, George, 145 —— Old Wives’ Tale , 110 , 145 , 202 , 293 Père Antoine’s Date Palm , 63 Peter Ibbetson , 186 , 196 , 206 , 300 Peter Pan , 240 , 306 Peter Rugg, the Missing Man , 189 Phantom Rickshaw, The , 88 , 94 Phantoms , 68 Phelps, William Lyon, 41 —— Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement , 41 Phillpotts, Eden, 83 —— Another Little Heath Hound , 290 —— Children of the Mist , 226 —— Ghost of Miser Brimpson, The , 83 —— Witch, The , 151 , 226 Picture of Dorian Gray, The , 32 , 60 , 121 , 134 Pit and the Pendulum, The , 253 Plaint of the Wandering Jew, The , 179 Planche, J. R., 160 —— Vampire, or the Bride of the Isles , 160 Plattner Case, The , 260 Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural , 208 Pliny, 72 Poe, Edgar Allan, 58 , 69 , 252 , 299 —— Berenice , 62 —— Bon Bon , 41 , 95 —— Descent into the Maelstrom, The , 231 , 253 —— Devil in the Belfry, The , 141 —— Eleonora , 103 —— Facts in the Case of M. Waldemar, The , 266 —— Fall of the House of Usher, The , 295 —— Hans Pfaal , 286 —— Ligeia , 123 , 191 —— Loss of Breath , 74 —— MS. Found in a Bottle , 253 —— Mesmeric Revelations , 266 —— Metzengerstein , 287 , 291 —— Morella , 123 , 190 —— Never Bet the Devil Your Head , 140 —— Oval Portrait, The , 58 —— Pit and the Pendulum, The , 253 —— Raven, The , 56 —— Tale of the Ragged Mountains, A , 58 , 190 —— William Wilson , 58 , 120 Polidior, Vampyre, The , 160 Pomponius Mela, 166 Portent, The , 266 Portents in Gothic Romance, 39 Portrait, The , 211 Powell, J. W., 232 Pretender, The , 65 Primer of Imaginary Geography, The , 181 , 216 Primitive Culture , 227 Prince, Morton, 305 —— Disassociation of a Personality, The , 305 Prince of India, The , 179 Proby, W. C., Spirit of the Castle, The , 40 Prophetic Pictures , 121 Prue and I , 121 , 258 Psychic Invasion, A , 106 Psychical Research, 73 , 199 et seq. Pursuit of the House-boat, The , 112 , 187 , 216 Pushkin, Alexander, Queen of Spades, The , 69 Putois , 63 Pyle, Howard, Evil Eye, The , 152 Q Queen Mab , 176 Queen of Hearts, The , 107 , 113 Queen of Sheba, The , 122 Queen of Spades, The , 69 Quiller-Couch, A. T., 154 —— Magic Shadow, The , 296 —— Mystery of Joseph Laquedem, The , 181 , 195 —— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts , 154 —— Pair of Hands, A , 103 , 288 —— Roll-call of the Reef, The , 107 Quinet, Edgar, 176 R Radcliffe, Anne, 9 , 16 , 23 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 71 , 82 —— Gaston de Blondeville , 19 —— Italian, The , 48 —— Mysteries of Udolpho, The , 9 , 48 —— Romance of the Castle, The , 44 —— Sicilian Romance, A , 45 , 50 , 301 Raleigh, Sir Walter, English Novel, The , 46 Rappacini’s Daughter , 252 , 272 Raven, The , 56 Raymond, or Life and Death , 75 Readjustment , 107 Real Ghost Stories , 282 Rebellious Heroine, The , 197 Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, The , 122 Red Debts , 146 Red Hand, The , 247 Red Ranrahan , 186 , 243 Reeve, Clara, 16 —— Old English Baron, The , 16 , 19 , 40 Regeneration of Lord Ernie, The , 230 Reinecke Fuchs , 213 Religion in Recent American Novels , 310 Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes, The , 256 Return, The , 123 , 198 Return of Peter Grimm, The , 201 , 298 Return of the Native, The , 150 Revolt, of the Angels, The , 220 Reynard the Fox, 231 Reynard the Fox, in South Africa , 232 Rhodes, Benrimo and Harrison, Willow Tree, The , 306 Richter, Jean Paul, Leibgeber Schappe , 122 Rideout, Henry, Ghost of the White Tiger, The , 291 Riders to the Sea , 10 , 304 Riding to Lithend , 152 Rip Van Winkle , 246 Rival Ghosts , 112 Roche, Regina Maria, 10 , 43 , 45 , 50 —— Clermont , 45 , 49 Roger of Wendover’s Chronicles , 175 Rohmer, Sax, 146 —— Flower of Silence, The , 273 —— Fu-Manchu Stories , 253 , 268 , 270 , 272 Roll-call of the Reef, The , 107 Romance of the Castle, The , 40 Romance of the Mummy, The , 62 Romance of Two Worlds, A , 213 Romantic Movement, 55 Romantic Reduplication and Psychology , 122 Rosary, The , 306 Rosmersholm , 66 Rossetti, Christina, Goblin Market , 148 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, Sister Helen , 67 , 153 Royle, Edward Milton, Unwritten Law, The , 306 Russian Literature, 67 S St. Germain, the Deathless , 188 St. Irvyne, the Rosicrucian , 17 , 35 , 36 St. Leon , 35 , 36 St. Oswyth , 12 Saintsbury, George, Tales of Mystery , 48 Saint, The , 66 Salathiel, or Tarry Thou Till I Come , 179 Sancta Susanna , 307 Satire on Gothicism, 47 et seq. Satirical Supernaturalism, 294 Scarlet Letter, The , 152 Scarlet Plague, The , 262 Scenery, Gothic, 10 Schiller, Robbers, The , 16 Schlegel, 176 Scholasticus , 63 Science, Gothic, 33 Science, Supernatural, 251 et seq. Scott, Sir Walter, 38 , 56 , 115 , 225 , 246 —— Betrothed, The , 225 —— Bride of Lammermoor, The , 38 —— Guy Mannering , 150 —— Monastery, The , 225 —— My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror , 225 —— Talisman, The , 134 , 146 , 147 , 225 —— Two Drovers, The , 151 , 225 —— Woodstock , 225 Screaming Skull, The , 60 , 89 , 92 Sea Fit, The , 230 Sea Lady, The , 234 Second Coming, The , 281 Second Wife, The , 122 Secret of Goresthorpe Grange, The , 79 Secret Worship , 105 , 117 , 137 Seeing the Great God Pan , 139 Select Party, A , 178 Selfish Giant, The , 246 Sensitives, 298 Septimius Felton , 143 , 150 , 183 , 252 Servant in the House, The , 66 , 305 Shadow World, The , 200 Shadows on the Wall, The , 78 , 99 , 104 , 226 Shadowy Third, The , 203 Shakespeare, 13 , 18 , 56 , 84 , 115 , 119 —— Hamlet , 18 , 118 , 144 —— Julius Cæsar , 18 , 84 —— King Lear , 13 —— Macbeth , 17 , 98 , 152 , 153 , 295 —— Midsummer Night’s Dream , 64 —— Tempest, The , 64 Sharp, William, 65 , 285 —— Gypsy Christ, The , 181 —— Vistas , 65 , 278 Shaving of Shagpat, The , 71 Shaw, George Bernard, Man and Superman , 217 , 306 She , 183 Sheldon, Edward: —— Mermaid, The , 234 Shell of Sense, The , 85 , 212 Shelley, Mary, 14 —— Frankenstein , 14 , 17 , 34 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 17 , 35 , 176 , 180 ,182 —— Fragment of an Unfinished Drama , 48 —— Hellas , 176 —— Queen Mab , 176 —— St. Irvyne, the Rosicrucian , 17 , 35 , 36 —— Witch of Atlas, The , 148 —— Wandering Jew, The , 176 —— Zastrozzi , 10 , 12 Shorthouse, J. H.: —— Countess Eve , 138 —— John Inglesant , 66 , 87 , 98 Shropshire Folk Tales , 291 Sicilian Romance, A , 45 , 50 , 301 Sidhe, The, 242 Signal Man, The , 114 Silence , 293 Silvani, Anita, 88 , 207 —— Ahrinziman , 88 , 183 , 213 Silver Mirror, The , 259 Sin Eater, The , 138 Sinner, The , 66 Sister Helen , 67 , 153 Skinner, C. M., 187 —— Myths and Legends of Our Land , 187 Smale, Fred C., Afterwards , 102 , 202 Smith, Benjamin, Merman and the Seraph, The , 234 Sociable Ghost, The , 111 Sogno d’un Mattino di Primavera , 67 , 300 Sogno d’un Tramonto d’Autunno , 67 , 152 Solomon, Simeon, Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep , 79 Song of Love Triumphant, The , 68 Songs from a Vagrom Spirit , 207 Song of the Wandering Jew, The , 176 Sorcerer, The , 145 Sorrows of Satan, The , 136 , 144 Soul of the Moor, The , 207 Soul on Fire, A , 193 Souls on Fifth , 123 , 198 , 215 Southey, Robert, Thalaba , 161 Spearmen, F. H., Ghost at Point of Rock, The , 83 Speck on the Lens, The , 255 Specter Bridegroom, The , 83 , 110 Spectral Mortgage, The , 63 Spencer, Herbert, 251 Spenser, Edmund, 239 —— Faerie Queene, The , 7 Speranza (Lady Wilde), 229 , 240 —— Ancient Legends and Superstitions of Ireland , 229 Spider’s Eye, The , 62 , 274 Spirit of Turrettville, The , 23 Spiritualism, 73 , 199 et seq. Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 286 —— Mad Lady, The , 286 Spring Recital, A , 208 Star, The , 264 Star Rover, The , 264 Stead, W. T., 74 Stephens, James, 219 —— Crock of Gold, The , 241 , 246 —— Demi-gods, The , 219 , 221 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 70 —— Bottle Imp, The , 70 —— Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , 120 , 268 , 305 —— Markheim , 120 —— New Arabian Nights, The , 70 —— Thrawn Janet , 137 Stockton, Frank R., 293 —— Great Stone of Sardis, The , 262 —— Spectral Mortgage, The , 63 —— Tale of Negative Gravity, A , 274 , 286 —— Transferred Ghost, The , 63 , 87 , 111 , 122 Stoker, Bram, 78 , 92 , 117 , 180 —— Dracula , 78 , 163 , 188 , 301 —— Jewel of Seven Stars, The , 191 , 274 —— Lair of the White Worm, The , 188 Stories of Red Ranrahan , 186 , 243 Story of Days to Come, A , 262 Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham, The , 122 , 185 Stramm, August, 209 , 251 , 308 —— Daughter of the Moor, The , 304 —— Sancta Susanna , 307 Strange Adventures of Phra, the Phœnician, The , 188 Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchion, The , 254 , 299 Strange Story, A , 90 , 182 Stuart, Ruth McEnery, 226 Styx River Anthology, The , 216 Subjective Ghosts, 83 Substitute, The , 88 Sue, Eugene, 176 , 178 —— Wandering Jew, The , 176 , 180 Suggested by Some of the Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society , 283 Sunken Bell, The , 158 Supernatural in Folk-tales, 233 et seq. Supernatural in Tragedy, The , 305 Supernatural Life, 174 et seq. Supernatural Science, 251 et seq. Sutton, Vida, Kingdom Come , 282 , 306 Swept and Garnished , 94 , 282 , 288 Synge, John, 10 , 229 , 240 —— Riders to the Sea , 10 , 304 Swanson, Frederick, Ghost Moth, The , 290 Swift, Dean, 35 T Tale of Negative Gravity, A , 274 , 286 Tale of the Ragged Mountains, A , 58 , 190 Tales of the Alhambra , 226 Tales of Mystery , 48 Talisman, The , 134 , 146 , 147 , 225 Tam O’Shanter , 156 Tchekhoff: —— Black Monk, The , 69 —— Sleepyhead , 69 —— Ward No. 6 , 69 Temperament, Gothic, 46 Tempest, The , 64 Temptation of the Clay, The , 231 Terror of Blue John Gap, The , 272 Terror of the Twins, The , 122 , 192 Tess of the D’ Urbervilles , 143 Thackeray, W. M., 55 , 89 —— Fairy Pantomime, A , 240 —— Notch on the Axe, A , 89 , 188 Thalaba , 161 Theal, Kaffir Tales , 232 Theodora , 103 They , 84 , 93 , 288 They That Mourn , 85 , 108 They That Walk in Darkness , 136 Thomas, Augustus, 306 —— Witching Hour, The , 306 Thompson, Francis, Hound of Heaven, The , 283 Thorndike, Ashley Horace, 42 —— Tragedy , 42 Thrawn, Janet , 137 Three Impostors, The , 247 , 269 Through the Mists , 207 Thurlow’s Christmas Story , 121 Thurston, E. Temple, Passionate Crime, The , 242 Ticket-of-leave Angel, The , 221 Tieck, Ludwig, 56 , 59 Time and the Gods , 245 Time Machine, The , 189 , 260 Tolstoi, Ivan, 68 —— Ivan, the Fool , 68 , 138 , 144 Tompkins, Juliet Wilbur, They That Mourn , 85 , 108 Tragedy , 42 Transfer, The , 164 Transferred Ghost, The , 63 , 87 , 111 , 122 Transmigration of a Soul, The , 190 Tress, The , 61 Trilby , 267 Triumph of Night, The , 121 Tryst, The , 126 , 211 Turgeniev, Ivan, 68 , 69 , 163 —— Clara Militch , 68 , 162 —— Dream, The , 68 —— Knock! Knock! Knock! , 68 —— Phantoms , 68 —— Song of Love Triumphant, The , 68 Turn of the Screw, The , 86 , 91 , 109 Twain, Mark, 142 —— Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court, A , 189 , 262 , 286 —— Extracts from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven , 201 , 217 —— Mysterious Stranger, The , 142 , 303 —— Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, The , 122 Twilight , 268 Two Drovers, The , 151 , 225 Two Military Executions , 116 Two Voices , 97 Tylor, Primitive Culture , 227 Tyranny of the Dark, The , 200 U Unburied, The , 66 , 301 Uncle Remus Tales , 232 , 235 Under the Greenwood Tree , 150 Undine , 57 Undiscovered Country, The , 200 , 267 Unknown Masterpiece, The , 60 Undying Thing, The , 271 Unwritten Law, The , 306 Upper Berth, The , 100 Usury , 198 V Vampire, The, 159 Vampire, The , 68 , 163 Vampire Bride, The , 159 Vampire, or the Bride of the Isles, The , 159 Vampires, 158 et seq. Vampyre, The , 160 Vandover and the Brute , 167 Van Dyke, Henry, Night Call, The , 83 Van Lerberghe, Charles, Flaireurs , 64 Vathek , 8 , 17 , 22 , 25 , 29 , 33 , 37 , 70 Vendetta of the Jungle, A , 168 Vera, the Medium , 200 Vergil, Culex , 290 Views of Other Planets, 263 Vikings of Helgeland, The , 65 Vine on the House, The , 90 Virtuoso’s Collection, The , 78 Vision of Judgment, A, 214 Vision of Judgment, A , 134 Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, A , 79 Vistas , 65 , 278 Vorse, Mary Heaton, Second Wife, The , 122 , 192 W Wallace, Edgar, Bones, Sanders, and Another , 156 Wallace, Lew, 179 —— Fair God, The , 256 —— Prince of India , 179 Wandering Jew, The, 8 , 175 et seq. Wandering Jew, The , 176 Wandering Jew, The , 176 Wandering Jew, The , 176 , 180 Wandering Jew, A Christmas Carol, The , 177 Wandering Jew, or the Travels of Bareach, the Prolonged, The , 178 Wanderings of Cain, The , 118 Walpole, Horace, 6 , 8 , 11 , 14 , 71 , 92 , 188 , 309 —— Castle of Otranto, The , 6 , 8 , 16 , 17 , 25 , 31 , 32 , 36 , 40 , 41 , 52 , 101 —— Mysterious Mother, The , 53 War Letters from a Living Dead Man , 207 , 292 War of the Wenuses, The , 263 War of the Worlds, The , 263 Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 199 , 290 —— Day of My Death, The , 199 —— Gates Ajar, The , 210 —— Gates Between, The , 210 —— Gates Beyond, The , 210 —— Kentucky’s Ghost , 199 Ward No. 6 , 69 Warning, The , 276 Water Babies, The , 240 Water Ghost and Others, The , 112 Water of the Wondrous Isle, The , 236 Waters of Death, The , 62 Wave, The , 194 Webster, John, Duchess of Malfi, The , 8 , 166 Wedmore, Frederick, Dream of Provence, A , 293 Well at the World’s End, The , 236 Wells, Carolyn, Styx River Anthology, The , 216 Wells, H. G.: —— Crystal Egg, The , 263 —— Days of the Comet, The , 264 —— Door in the Wall, The , 258 —— Dream of Armageddon, A , 196 , 262 —— First Men in the Moon, The , 264 —— Flowering of the Strange Orchid , 62 , 164 , 273 —— In the Days of the Comet , 264 —— Invisible Man, The , 95 , 269 —— Island of Dr. Moreau, The , 271 —— Man Who Had Been in Fairyland, The , 241 —— New Accelerator, The , 286 —— Plattner Case, The , 260 —— Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes, The , 256 —— Sea Lady, The , 234 —— Star, The , 264 —— Story of Days to Come, A , 262 —— Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham, The , 122 , 185 —— Time Machine, The , 189 , 260 —— Vision of Judgment, A , 214 —— War of the Worlds, The , 263 —— When the Sleeper Wakes , 262 —— Wonderful Visit, The , 218 , 221 , 302 Wentz, W. Y. E., 239 —— Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries , 239 Werewolf, The, 166 et seq. Werewolf, The , 169 , 172 Werewolves, 170 Weston, Jessie Adelaide, 146 —— Black Magic , 146 —— Mummy’s Foot, The , 62 Wetmore, Elizabeth Bisland, Doppelgänger, The , 122 Weyman, Stanley J., Man in Black, The , 137 Wharton, Edith, 53 , 121 —— Afterwards , 302 —— Duchess at Prayer, The , 121 , 303 —— Eyes, The , 297 —— Kerfol , 290 —— Triumph of Night, The , 121 What Was It? A Mystery , 61 , 96 When the Gods Slept , 63 , 74 When the Sleeper Wakes , 262 Whicher, George Frisbee, Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Heywood , 42 White Lady of Avenel , 225 White People, The , 203 , 298 White Sleep of Auber Hurn, The , 121 Whitman, Stephen French, Woman from Yonder, The , 126 , 187 Whitmore, E. C., 305 —— Supernatural in Tragedy, The , 305 Wieland, 35 , 39 Wilde, Oscar, 32 , 240 , 249 —— Fisherman and His Soul, The , 134 , 153 , 236 —— Happy Prince, The , 238 —— House of Judgment, The , 214 —— Legend of Sharp, A , 134 —— Nightingale and the Rose, The , 235 , 293 —— Picture of Dorian Gray, The , 32 , 60 , 121 , 134 —— Selfish Giant, The , 246 Wilkinson, William Cleaver, 284 William of Newbury, 159 William Wilson , 58 , 120 Williams, Blanche Colton, 83 Williams, Frances Fenwick: —— Soul on Fire, A , 193 —— Theodora , 193 Willow Tree, The , 306 Wisdom of the King, The , 154 Witch, The , 149 Witch, The , 151 Witch, The, 145 et seq. Witch of Atlas, The , 148 Witch of Edmondton, The , 150 Witch of Endor, The , 145 Witch of Fife, The , 148 Witch of Prague, The , 149 , 195 , 266 Witch Hazel , 157 Witches, Gothic, 26 et seq. Witching Hour, The , 306 With Intent to Steal , 62 , 117 Withered Arm, The , 225 Wizard, The, 145 et seq. Wolf, The , 172 Woman, The , 66 , 194 , 300 Woman from Yonder, The , 126 , 187 Wonderful Visit, The , 218 , 221 , 302 Wood beyond the World, The , 236 Woodstock , 225 Wool-gatherer, The , 23 , 29 , 30 Word with a Mummy, A , 62 Wordsworth, William, Song of the Wandering Jew, The , 176 Wrong Elixir, The , 186 Wuthering Heights , 86 , 226 Y Yeats, W. B., 226 , 237 , 240 , 248 , 285 —— Celtic Twilight, The , 239 —— Countess Cathleen , 65 , 143 —— Curse of the Fires and the Shadows, The , 154 —— Land of Heart’s Desire, The , 65 , 240 , 306 —— Old Men of the Twilight, The , 234 —— Stories of Red Ranrahan , 186 , 243 —— Wisdom of the King, The , 154 Young Goodman Brown , 151 Z Zangwill, Israel, They That Walk in Darkness , 136 Zastrozzi , 17 Zero , 257 Zofloya , 10 , 17 , 28 , 33 , 37 , 38 , 53 , 154 , 251 Zola, Émile, 252

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