A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES
A STABLE
FOR NIGHTMARES
OR
WEIRD TALES
BY
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU
AUTHOR OF “UNCLE SILAS,” “HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD,”
SIR CHARLES YOUNG, Bart.
AND OTHERS
Illustrated
NEW YORK NEW
AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY
156 Fifth Avenue
1896
Copyright, 1896,
by
New Amsterdam Book Company
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Dickon the Devil, | 9 |
| A Debt of Honor, | 27 |
| Devereux’s Dream, | 59 |
| Catherine’s Quest, | 89 |
| Haunted, | 115 |
| Pichon and Sons, of the Croix Rousse, | 135 |
| The Phantom Fourth, | 163 |
| The Spirit’s Whisper, | 185 |
| Dr. Feversham’s Story, | 209 |
| The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts, | 229 |
| What Was It? | 241 |
[9]DICKON THE DEVIL.
ABOUT thirty years ago I was selected by two rich old maids to visit aproperty in that part of Lancashire which lies near the famous forest ofPendle, with which Mr. Ainsworth’s “Lancashire Witches” has made us sopleasantly familiar. My business was to make partition of a smallproperty, including a house and demesne to which they had, a long timebefor
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