• Publication: Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century FrancePublication Record # 300479
• Editor: Joan C. Kessler
• Date: 1995-04-00
• ISBN: 0-226-43207-6 [978-0-226-43207-6]
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Price:
  $45.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 347
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • Edited with notes to each story by Kessler, who also translated nine of the stories, and wrote a 51-page critical introduction (not included in the page count).
• External IDs:
  • BL: 007365960
  • Goodreads: 3587737
  • LCCN: 94029819
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 30913416 757692457

Contents (view Concise Listing)

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