• Publication: Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon BlackwoodPublication Record # 358619
• Editor: V. H. Collins
• Date: 1924-10-00
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pub. Series: The World's Classics
• Pub. Series #: 284
• Price:
  2/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: xvi+506
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Webpages: babel.hathitrust.org
• Notes: Contents from HathiTrust scan Essay is signed M. R. James, but "Casting the Runes" is credited Montague R. James
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 406
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3309009
  • Reginald-1: 03220

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• v • Introduction (Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood) • (1924) • essay by M. R. James
• 1 • Mrs. Veal • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
• 14 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 41 • The Werewolf • short story by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf (excerpt: chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship) 1839)
• 71 • The Haunted and the Haunters: or The House and the Brain • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton]
• 126 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 146 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar A. Poe]
• 169 • Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter • (1894) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 204 • The Lifted Veil • (1859) • novelette by George Eliot
• 267 • The Open Door • (1881) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
• 329 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
• 357 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 373 • The Crystal Egg • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 398 • Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 467 • The Moon-Slave • (1901) • short story by Barry Pain
• 475 • Casting the Runes • novelette by M. R. James [as by Montague R. James]