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.
zlib_text: **_By P. C. and Kristin Cast_**
  
    *  _The House of Night_
  
    * Marked
  
    * Betrayed
  
    * Chosen
  
    * Untamed
  
    * Hunted
  
    * Tempted
  
    * Burned
  
    * Awakened
  
    *  _The House of Night Novellas_
  
    * Dragon’s Oath
  
    * The Fledgling Handbook
  
   _COPYRIGHT_
  
  Published by Hachette Digital
  
  ISBN: 9780748130733
  
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  dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2011 by P. C. and Kristin Cast
  
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   **CONTENTS**
  
   _COPYRIGHT_
  
   _BY P. C. AND KRISTIN CAST_
  
   _ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS_
  
   _CHAPTER ONE_
  
   _CHAPTER TWO_
  
   _CHA