follows but she has disappeared. At the wedding all goes well. Then Ida and the count dance. She gets tired and leaves. But a moment later she comes back, dances with Marino and then leaves with him to their bedchamber. Ida comes back to find everyone has left the reception. She asks where is Marino? Her parents are shocked and say she left with him to the bedchamber. She tells them that she had gone to her sister's room and had fallen asleep until just now. They all rush to the bedchamber and find Marino died on the floor, contorted. The marquis tours the town and finds out all he can about this Death Bride. She had been a noble lady who had scorned her lover and he had died. When she was to marry her dead lover appeared to her and she later died. Since then she wanders the land in the guise of lovers to temp men away and kills them. This was what had happened to Marino when he saw Hildegarde temping him from his betrothed. The story ends with the police looking for the marquis at the party. He runs out and is never seen from again. The Storm A wedding party in eighteenth-century Gascony is held at the château of the bridegroom's uncle. Many people from the surrounding area are invited, including some strangers. The host's daughter Emily befriends one of these, Isabella de Nunez, the widow of a Spanish officer of the Walloon Guards who had recently arrived in Gascony. An extremely heavy thunderstorm arrives, preventing the guests from leaving until the morning. The prospect of this terrifies Isabella, but Emily insists Isabella shares her room. Isabella reluctantly agrees, locks the door, and gets Emily to swear not to tell anyone what is about to happen until after she is dead. As the clock strikes midnight, a carriage is heard arriving despite the storm, followed by footsteps approaching the room, and the locked door opens. Emily soon faints, unable to bear whatever it is that she sees. Isabella leaves early the next morning, but Emily is found unconscious, and is revived by a doctor only to fall seriously ill. She recounts the contents of this story but not Isabella's secret, and dies after only a few days. Isabella also dies soon after, having "expired under circumstances of unexampled horror". The Spectre-Barber "The Spectre-Barber" is