Contents
Foreword (Victorian Tales of Terror) • (1974) • essay by Hugh Lamb
Xélucha • (1896) • short story by M. P. Shiel
The Black Veil • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens
The Mystery at Fernwood • (1861) • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [as by Elizabeth Braddon]
The Black Lady of Brin Tor • (1904) • short story by Guy Boothby
The Mother of Monsters • (1974) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La mère aux monstres 1883)
The Murderer’s Violin • (1860) • short story by Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (trans. of Le violon du pendu) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian]
The Mask • (1892) • novelette by Richard Marsh
The Dead Man of Varley Grange • (1878) • short story by uncredited
My Favourite Murder • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of My Favorite Murder)
The Shadow in the Moonlight • (1896) • novelette by Mary Louisa Molesworth [as by Mrs. Molesworth]
The Last of Squire Ennismore • (1888) • short story by Mrs. J. H. Riddell
The Red Warder of the Reef • (1902) • short story by J. A. Barry
Wolverden Tower • (1896) • novelette by Grant Allen
Madam Crowl’s Ghost • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Cave of Blood • (1899) • short story by Dick Donovan