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[First edition]. |
| Description |
496 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The world of horror. Haïta the shephard -- The secret of Macarager's Gulch -- The eyes of the panther -- The stranger -- An inhabitant of Carcosa -- The applicant -- The death of Halpin Frayser -- A watcher by the dead -- The man and the snake -- John Mortonson's funeral -- Moxon's master -- The damned thing -- The realm of the unreal -- A fruitless assignment -- A vine on a house -- The haunted valley -- One of twins -- Present at a hanging -- A wireless message -- The moonlit road -- An arrest -- A jug of sirup -- The isle of pines -- At old man Eckert's -- The spook house -- The middle toe of the right foot -- The thing at Nolan -- The difficulty of crossing a field. |
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The world of horror. An unfinished race -- Charles Ashmore's trail -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- The night doings at "Deadman's" -- A baby tramp -- A psychological shipwreck -- A cold greeting -- Beyond the wall -- John Bartine's watch -- The man out of the nose -- An adventure at Brownville -- The suitable surroundings -- The boarded window -- A lady from Redhorse -- The famous Gilson bequest -- A holy terror -- A diagnosis of death. |
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The world of war. One of the missing -- A baffled ambuscade -- The affair at Coulter's Notch -- A son of the gods -- One kind of officer -- A tough tussle -- An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge -- Chickamauga -- The coup de grâce -- One officer, one man -- The story of a conscience -- Parker Addison, philosopher -- An affair of outposts -- Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General -- A horseman in the sky -- The mocking-bird -- George Thurston -- Killed at Resaca -- Three and one are one -- Two military executions -- The major's tale -- A resumed identity -- A man with two lives -- The other lodgers -- A bivouac of the dead. |
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The world of tall tales. An imperfect conflagration -- A bottomless grave -- The city of the gone away -- Curried cow -- A revolt of the gods -- Oil of dog -- The widower Turmore -- The baptism of Dobsho -- The race at Left Bower -- The failure of Hope & Wandel -- A providential intimation -- Mr. Swiddler's flip-flap -- The little story -- My favorite murder -- The hypnotist -- Mr. Masthead, journalist -- Why I am not editing "The stinger" -- Corrupting the press -- The bubble reputation -- A shipwreckollection -- The captain of the "Camel" -- The man overboard -- A cargo of cat. |
| Subject |
Manners and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Title |
Short stories
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