Terror by Gaslight

Contents

Editor’s Foreword (Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror) • (1975) • by Hugh Lamb
Purification • (1896) • short story by Robert Barr
The Beckoning Hand • (1887) • novelette by Grant Allen
Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • short story by Rhoda Broughton (variant of The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth)
The Haunted House of Paddington • (1841) • short story by Charles Ollier
A Dreadful Night • (1894) • short story by Edwin L. Arnold [as by Edwin Lester Arnold]
The House of Strange Stories • (1886) • short story by Andrew Lang
The Invisible Eye • (1870) • short story by Alexandre Chatrian and Émile Erckmann (trans. of L’œil invisible ou L’auberge des trois pendus 1857) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian]
The Earth Draws • short story by Jonas Lie (trans. of Jorden Drager 1891)
The Wondersmith • (1859) • novelette by Fitz-James O’Brien
The Basilisk • (1894) • short story by R. Murray Gilchrist
A Dead Man’s Teeth • (1905) • short story by Sabine Baring-Gould [as by S. Baring-Gould]
The Doomed Man • (1899) • novelette by Dick Donovan
Kentucky’s Ghost • (1868) • short story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward]
The Weird Woman • (1871) • short story by Anonymous