The Third Macabre MEGAPACK®. Lafcadio Hearn
COPYRIGHT INFO
The Third Macabre Megapack is copyright © 2014 by Wildside Press LLC. Cover art copyright © 2014 by Innovari / Fotolia. All rights reserved.
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“The Waltz,” by Morris W. Gowen, originally appeared in All-Story, September 1913.
“Three at Table,” by W.W. Jacobs, is taken from the collection The Lady of the Barge (1911).
“Vera,” by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, is taken from Cruel Tales (1901)
“A Lost Day,” by Edgar Fawcett, is taken from Eleven Possible Cases (1891).
“Metzengerstein,” by Edgar Allan Poe, was originally published in the Saturday Courier magazine in 1832.
“A Tragedy of High Explosives,” by Brainard Gardner Smith, is taken from Eleven Possible Cases (1891).
“The Legend of Tchi-Niu,” by Lafcadio Hearn, is taken from Some Chinese Ghosts (1887).
“The Outgoing of the Tide,” by John Buchan, originally appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXIX (1902).
“A Strange Reunion,” by T. G. Atkinson, originally appeared in The Strand, April 1893.
“A Work of Accusation,” by Harry How, originally appeared in The Strand, June 1893.
“The Night Wire,” by H.F. Arnold, originally appeared in Weird Tales, September 1926.
“The Elixir of Life,” by Honoré de Balzac is dated October, 1930 (Paris).
“The Mirror,” by Catulle Mendès, and “The Woman and the Cat,” by Marcel Prevost, are taken from International Short Stories: French (1910).
“A Lemon Tree,” by Ouida, is taken from A Rainy June and Other Stories (1905).
“Twilight Zone,” by Mary Keegan, originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, August 19, 1916.
“Unhallowed Holiday,” by O. M. Cabral, originally appeared in Weird Tales, September-October 1941.
“The Eternity of Forms,” by Jack London, is taken from his collection The Turtles of Tasman (1916).
“Wolverden Tower,” by Grant Allen, is taken from Twelve Tales: Select Stories (1900).
“The Magic Phial,” by J.Y. Ayerman, is taken from Tales of Other Days (1830).
“The Haunted Mill,” by Jerome K. Jerome, is taken from the collection Told After Supper (1891).
“The Grove of Ashtaroth,” by John Buchan, is taken from the collection The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies (1912).
“The Well,” by W.W. Jacobs, originally appeared in 1902.
“Death and the Woman, by Gertrude Atherton, originally appeared in Vanity Fair (1892).
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Over the last year, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”
The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!).
A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS
The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your reader.)
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Note: we only consider stories that have already been professionally published. This is not a market for new works.
TYPOS
Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.
If you spot a new typo, please let us know. We’ll fix it for everyone. You can email the publisher at [email protected] or use the message boards above.
—John Betancourt
Publisher, Wildside Press LLC
www.wildsidepress.com
THE MEGAPACK SERIES
The Adventure Megapack
The Baseball Megapack
The Boys’ Adventure Megapack
The Buffalo Bill Megapack
The Christmas Megapack
The Second Christmas Megapack
The Classic American Short Story Megapack
The Classic Humor Megapack
The Dan Carter, Cub Scout Megapack
The Cowboy Megapack
The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack
The Dan Carter, Cub Scout Megapack
The Detective Megapack
The Father Brown Megapack
The Ghost Story Megapack
The Second Ghost Story Megapack
The Third Ghost Story Megapack
The Horror Megapack
The Macabre Megapack
The Second Macabre Megapack
The Martian Megapack
The Military Megapack
The Mummy Megapack
The First Mystery Megapack
The Penny Parker Megapack
The Pulp Fiction Megapack
The Rover Boys Megapack
The Science Fiction Megapack
The Second Science Fiction Megapack
The Third Science Fiction Megapack
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack
The Fifth Science Fiction Megapack
The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack
The Penny Parker Megapack
The Pinocchio Megapack
The Steampunk Megapack
The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet Megapack
The Tom Swift Megapack
The Vampire Megapack
The Victorian Mystery Megapack
The Werewolf Megapack
The Western Megapack
The Second Western Megapack
The Wizard of Oz Megapack
AUTHOR MEGAPACKS
The Edward Bellamy Megapack
The E.F. Benson Megapack
The Second E.F. Benson Megapack
The B.M. Bower Megapack
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