• Publication: Hauntings: Fantastic StoriesPublication Record # 708903
• Author: Vernon Lee
• Date: 1890-02-27
• Publisher: F. F. Lovell
• Pub. Series: Lovell's International Series
• Pub. Series #: 73
• Price:
  $0.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xi+237
• Format:
  digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: Digest format, given the 50-cent paper-cover edition, is implied by size 7 x 4-3/4 inches, which the Dime Novel Bibliography reports for this series. LeBlanc series 520

  Data primarily from Library of Congress copy 2, viewed online at LOC.gov:
  • Front cover or wrapper (LOC image 263), header and footer (layout varies):   "No. 73   Lovell's International Series   50 Cents"   "Issued Semi-Weekly. Annual Subscription, $30.00. Feb. 27, 1890."
  • -- title page displays LC Copyright stamp, dated 1890-04-04, and imprint "Frank F. Lovell & Company" -- t.p. verso: (c)1890 by "John W. Lovell" -- Preface, p[vii]-xi (no list of Contents) -- stories span p[1]-237 Page numbers below are those of internal title pages. Two pages later begins either the story per se, or associated material by Lee.
  • Back pages [239-45]: "Recent Publications. Frank F. Lovell & Co."
  • Facing the title page (as image 8, perhaps the inside front cover): "Lovell's International Series of Modern Novels" contains a list of volumes #1 to 49; title, author, and price.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 07-33487
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 6136663 1046043226
  • Open Library: OL6989524M

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Preface (Hauntings) • (1890) • essay by Vernon Lee
• 1 • Amour Dure: Passages from the Diary of Spiridion Trepka • (1887) • novelette by Vernon Lee (variant of Amour Dure)
• 59 • Dionea • (1890) • novelette by Vernon Lee
• 105 • Oke of Okehurst, or, A Phantom Lover • (1886) • novella by Vernon Lee (variant of A Phantom Lover)
• 193 • A Wicked Voice • (1890) • novelette by Vernon Lee