This posthumous collection of short stories by noted author and historian of weird folklore brings together 36 of his earliest works, many of them brief romantic sketches of phantasmagoric imagery, supernatural occurrences and tales from far away places. H. P. Lovecraft said of this collection in his seminal essay Supernatural Horror in Literature that it "contains some of the most impressive ghoulishness in all literature". (Summary by Ben Tucker)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Introduction by Charles Woodward Hutson
27:02 - Chapter 2
All in White
04:45 - Chapter 3
The Little Red Kitten
05:07 - Chapter 4
The Night of All Saints
04:10 - Chapter 5
The Devil's Carbuncle
03:34 - Chapter 6
Les Coulisses
11:46 - Chapter 7
The Stranger
03:09 - Chapter 8
Y Porque?
03:12 - Chapter 9
A Dream of Kites
03:59 - Chapter 10
Hereditary Memories
07:23 - Chapter 11
The Ghostly Kiss
06:09 - Chapter 12
The Black Cupid
06:18 - Chapter 13
When I Was a Flower
03:07 - Chapter 14
Metempsychosis
06:03 - Chapter 15
The Undying One
08:27 - Chapter 16
The Vision of the Dead Creole
07:11 - Chapter 17
The Name on the Stone
04:26 - Chapter 18
Aphrodite and the King's Prisoner
09:35 - Chapter 19
The Fountain of Gold
12:29 - Chapter 20
A Dead Love
03:55 - Chapter 21
At the Cemetery
04:50 - Chapter 22
"Aida"
09:57 - Chapter 23
El Vomito
07:52 - Chapter 24
The Idyl of a French Snuff-Box
04:56 - Chapter 25
Spring Phantoms
06:30 - Chapter 26
A Kiss Fantastical
09:04 - Chapter 27
The Bird and the Girl
06:25 - Chapter 28
The Tale of a Fan
05:03 - Chapter 29
A Legend
04:30 - Chapter 30
The Gypsy's Story
11:16 - Chapter 31
The One Pill-Box
08:40 - Chapter 32
A River Reverie
08:23 - Chapter 33
"His Heart is Old"
10:08 - Chapter 34
MDCCCLIII
07:18 - Chapter 35
Hiouen-Thsang
14:40 - Chapter 36
L'Amour Après la Mort
04:56 - Chapter 37
The Post-Office
19:45