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• ix • Introduction (Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France) • essay by Joan C. Kessler
• xi • Acknowledgments (Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France) • essay by Joan C. Kessler
• 1 • Smarra, or The Demons of the Night • (1993) • novelette by Charles Nodier (trans. of Smarra, ou les démons de la nuit 1821)
• 30 • The Red Inn • novella by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of L'auberge rouge 1831)
• 63 • The Venus of Ille • (1966) • novelette by
  Prosper Mérimée^?Prosper Merimee
  (trans. of La Vénus d'Ille 1837)
• 91 • The Dead in Love • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
• 118 • Arria Marcella • (1976) • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of Arria Marcella 1852)
• 145 • The Slap of Charlotte Corday • novelette by Alexandre Dumas (trans. of Le soufflet de Charlotte Corday 1849)
• 172 • Aurélia, or Dream and Life • [Aurélia] • novella by
  Gérard de Nerval^?Gerard de Nerval
  (trans. of Aurélia 1855)
• 224 • Master Zacharius • (1874) • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Maître Zacharius ou l'horloger qui avait perdu son âme 1854)
• 258 • The Sign • (1963) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of L'intersigne 1868)
• 274 • Véra • (1883) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of
  Véra^?Vera
  1874)
• 284 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 309 • Who Knows? • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
• 322 • The Veiled Man • short story by Marcel Schwob (trans. of
  L'homme voilé^?L'homme voile
  1890)