title: The Midnight Reader: Great Stories of Haunting and Horror (The Beckoning Fair One; The Mezzotint; Tarnhelm; The Willows; Mark of the Beast; Upper Berth; Yellow Wall Paper; Millvale Apparition; et al)
author: Editor Stern Philip Van Doren
description: Great stories of Haunting and Horror! Edited, and with an Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern. Published by Henry Holt and Company of New York. Stories: The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions; The Mezzotint by M.R. James; Tarnheim by Sir Hugh Walpole; The Willows by Algernon Blackwood; August Heat by W.F. Harvey; The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling; Couching At The Door by D.K. Broster; The Familiar by Sheridan Le Fanu; The Upper Berth by F.M. Crawford; The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte P. Gilman; Afterward by Edith Wharton; Full Fathom Five by Alexander Woollcott; The Millvale Apparition by Louis Adamic; The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James.
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  The Midnight Hour
  
  
  Book 2
  
  
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  Nicholas’ Nightmare
  
  
  
  
  
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