Halloween Books

Introduction

Halloween has become a perennial event during which all sorts of unsavory and ghoulish characters make appearances to participate in proofing fun.

Below is the list of works requested specifically for the Halloween special day proofing. Feel free to add suggested books to the Not in PG category or claim one for yourself.

Not in PG

• Anon. Terrible Tales: French; German; Italian; Spanish. 4 vols. London: Gibbings, 1891.
• Anon. Weird Tales: American; English; German; Irish; Scottish. 5 vols. Edinburgh: Paterson, 1888.
• Bowen, Marjorie (pseud, of Gabrielle Long). Black Magic. Alston Rivers, 1909.

Cleared/In-progress

• On the Trail of the Poltergeist Fodor, Nandor (English) is now in P3.proj_avail
• Die Elixiere des Teufels {fraktur} Hoffmann, E. T. A. (German) is now in proj_submit_pgposted
• Märchen und Spukgeschichten {fraktur} {needs fixing, see notes} Heyse, Paul (German) is now in proj_post_first_unavailable

Posted

• Ainsworth, W(illiam) Harrison. The Lancashire Witches. London: Colburn, 1849.
• Anonymous.
  • The Skeleton Crew: or, Wildfire Ned United Kingdom: Newagents' Publishing Company, 1867.
  • Was it a Ghost? The Murders in Bussey's Wood Boston: Loring, 1868.
• Bennett, John. Madame Margot: A Grotesque Legend of Old Charleston. New York: The Century Co., 1921.
• Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic). The Room in the Tower: and Other Stories. London: Mills & Boon, 1912.
• Blackwood, Algernon. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. Eveleigh Nash, 1906.
• Boyle, Virginia Frazer. Devil Tales. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900.
• Dumas, Alexandre. The Wolf-Leader. Methuen, 1904. Tr. by Alfred Allinson of Le Meneur de loups, 1857.
• Emerson, Edwin. The Phantom Hunter; or Love after Death. New York: Beadle and Adams, 1871.
• Falkner, John Meade. The Lost Stradivarius. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1895.
• Hardy, Alice Dale. The Riddle Club through the Holidays. Boston: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924.
• Hichens, Robert S(mythe). Tongues of Conscience. Methuen, 1900.
• Hodgson, William Hope.
  • The Ghost Pirates. Stanley Paul, 1909.
  • The House on the Borderland. Chapman & Hall, 1908.
• Housman, Clemence. The Were-Wolf. London: John Lane, 1896.
• Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas. The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1870.
• Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan.
  • All in the Dark. London: Downey & Co., 1898.
  • In a Glass Darkly. 3 Vols. Vol 1. Vol 2. Vol 3. London: Bentley, 1872.
  • Room in the Dragon Volant
  • Carmilla
  • The House by the Churchyard
• Linskill, William Thomas. St. Andrews Ghost Stories. St Andrews: J. & G. Innes, 1921.
• Machen, Arthur. The Three Impostors. London: John Lane, 1895.
• O'Donnell, Elliott Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter. London : Heath, Cranton, Ltd., 1916.
• Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret Oliphant Wilson).
  • A Beleaguered City. London: Macmillan, 1880.
  • Stories of the Seen and Unseen. Blackwood, 1902.
• Onions, Oliver (later George Oliver). Widdershins. Seeker, 1911.
• Sappington, T. L. The Sociable Sand Witch New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1923.
• Sinclair, George Satan's Invisible World Discovered 1814.
• Smith, Laura Rountree Helps and Hints for Hallowe'en March Brothers, 1920.
• Stoddart, Jane The Case Against Spiritualism Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.
• Swain, E. G. The Stoneground Ghost Tales W. Heffer & Sons, 1912.

• • Available on PG Australia
• Wylder's Hand. 3 vols. London: Bentley, 1864.

Questionable

• Blackwood, Algernon. John Silence. Eveleigh Nash, 1908. (reprint ordered) Three John Silence Stories and Three More John Silence Stories both posted.