title: The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales
author:  Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
description: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835 - 1915) was a prominent and prolific Victorian novelist whose major works, including Lady Audley's Secret and Aurora Floyd, attracted a huge contemporary readership. She was also the author of numerous beautifully macabre ghost stories, many of which have been unjustly neglected. Edited by Greg Buzwell, Curator of Printed Literary Sources at the British Library and co-curator of a major exhibition in 2014 - 15, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
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  # The Best British Short Stories of 1922
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  INTRODUCTION
  
  
  THE LOOKING GLASS
  
  
  THE OLIVE
  
  
  ONCE A HERO
  
  
  THE PENSIONER
  
  
  BROADSHEET BALLAD
  
  
  THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT
  
  
  SEATON'S AUNT By WALTER DE LA MARE
  
  
  THE REAPER
  
  
  THE SONG
  
  
  A HEDONIST
  
  
  THE BAT AND BELFRY INN
  
  
  THE LIE
  
  
  A GIRL IN IT
  
  
  THE BACKSTAIRS OF THE MIND
  
  
  THE BIRTH OF A MASTERPIECE
  
  
  “GENIUS”
  
  
  THE DEVIL TO PAY
  
  
  EMPTY ARMS
  
  
  LENA WRACE
  
  
  THE DICE THROWER
  
  
  THE STRANGER WOMAN
  
  
  THE WOMAN WHO SAT STILL
  
  
  MAJOR WILBRAHAM
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  THE BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES OF 1922
  
  
  EDITED BY EDWARD J. O'BRIEN AND JOHN COURNOS
  
  
  TO STACY AUMONIER
  
  
  
  
  
  BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  
  
  Grateful acknowledgement for permission to include the stories and
  
  
  other material in this volume is made t