CONTENTS

I The Evolution of the Short-Storyn

II The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)

III The Mysterious Bride by James Hogg (1770-1835)

IV The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving (1783-1859)

V Dr Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864)

VI The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

VII Rab and His Friends by Dr. John Brown (1810-1882)

VIII The Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

IX A Story of Seven Devils by Frank R Stockton (1834-1902)

X A Dog's Tale by Mark Twain (1835)

XI The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte (1839-1902)

XII The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy (1840)

XIII Julia Bride by Henry James (1843)

XIV A Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)