Stories New and Old

By J. H. Shorthouse, James Lane Allen, Hamilton Wright Mabie, J Brown, Austin, William, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Wister, Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Subjects: short stories, American fiction, fear, horror, American short stories, Horror stories, American Horror tales, Fiction, Children's fiction, American literature, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, English short stories

Description: General introduction: The short story, by H. W. Mabie-- Peter Ragg, the missing man, by W. Austin Dr. Marigold's prescriptions, by C. Dickens Rab and his friends, by J. Brown Ethan Brand, by N. Hawthorne [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W), by E. A. Poe Will o the mill, by R. L. Stevenson The Marquis Jeanne Hyacinth St. Palaye, by J. H. Shorthouse Quite so, by T. R. Aldrich King Solomon of Kentucky, by J. L. Allen The game and the nation, by O. Wister