Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

THE SCREAM - 60 Horror Tales in One Edition


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Chapter 30. Concerning a Certain Woman in Black

       Chapter 31. Being a Short History of the Great Battle of Belmont that Lasted for So Many Days, Wherein the Belligerents Showed So Much Constancy and Valour, and Sometimes One Side and Sometimes T’other was Victorious

       Chapter 32. Narrating How Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and How They Sang and Discoursed Together

       Chapter 33. In which Captain Devereux’s Fiddle Plays a Prelude to ‘Over the Hills and Far Away.’

       Chapter 34. In which Lilias Hears a Stave of an Old Song and There is a Leave-Taking Beside the River

       Chapter 35. In which Aunt Becky and Doctor Toole, in Full Blow, with Dominick, the Footman, Behind Them, Visit Miss Lily at the Elms

       Chapter 36. Narrating How Miss Lilias Visited Belmont, and Saw a Strange Cocked-Hat in the Shadow by the Window

       Chapter 37. Showing How Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed Fiercer, and Others Were Solemnly Condoned

       Chapter 38. Dreams and Troubles, and a Dark Look-Out

       Chapter 39. Telling How Lilias Walsingham Found Two Ladies Awaiting Her Arrival at the Elms

       Chapter 40. Of a Messenger from Chapelizod Vault who Waited in the Tyled House for Mr. Mervyn

       Chapter 41. In which the Rector Comes Home, and Lily Speaks Her Mind, and Time Glides On, and Aunt Rebecca Calls at the Elms

       Chapter 42. In which Dr. Sturk Tries this Way and that for a Reprieve on the Eve of Execution

       Chapter 43. Showing How Charles Nutter’s Blow Descended, and what Part the Silver Spectacles Bore in the Crisis

       Chapter 44. Relating How, in the Watches of the Night, a Vision Came to Sturk, and His Eyes Were Opened

       Chapter 45. Concerning a Little Rehearsal in Captain Cluffe’s, Lodging, and a Certain Confidence Between Dr. Sturk and Mr. Dangerfield

       Chapter 46. The Closet Scene, with the Part of Polonius Omitted

       Chapter 47. In which Pale Hecate Visits the Mills, and Charles Nutter, Esq., Orders Tea

       Chapter 48. Swans on the Water

       Chapter 49. Swans in the Water

       Chapter 50. Treating of Some Confusion, in Consequence, in the Club-Room of the Phoenix and Elsewhere, and of a Hat that was Picked Up

       Chapter 51. How Charles Nutter’s Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-Box Were All Set Out for Him in the Small Parlour at the Mills; and How that Night was Passed in the House by the Church-Yard

       Chapter 52. Concerning a Rouleau of Guineas and the Crack of a Pistol

       Chapter 53. Relating After what Fashion Dr. Sturk Came Home

       Chapter 54. In which Miss Magnolia Macnamara and Dr. Toole, in Different Scenes, Prove Themselves Good Samaritans; and the Great Doctor Pell Mounts the Stairs of the House by the Church-Yard

       Chapter 55. In which Dr. Toole, in Full Costume, Stands Upon the Hearth-Stone of the Club, and Illuminates the Company with His Back To the Fire

       Chapter 56. Doctor Walsingham and the Chapelizod Christians Meet to the Sound of the Holy Bell, and a Vampire Sits in the Church

       Chapter 57. In which Dr. Toole and Mr. Lowe Make a Visit at the Mills, and Recognise Something Remarkable While There

       Chapter 58. In which One of Little Bopeep’s Sheep Comes Home Again, and Various Theories are Entertained Respecting Charles Nutter And Lieutenant Puddock

       Chapter 59. Telling How a Coach Drew up at the Elms, and Two Fine Ladies, Dressed for the Ball, Stepped in

       Chapter 60. Being a Chapter of Hoops, Feathers, and Brilliants, and Bucks and Fiddlers

       Chapter 61. In which the Ghosts of a by-Gone Sin Keep Tryst

       Chapter 62. Of a Solemn Resolution which Captain Devereux Registered Among His Household Gods, with a Libation

       Chapter 63. In which a Liberty is Taken with Mr. Nutter’s Name, and Mr. Dangerfield Stands at the Altar

       Chapter 64. Being a Night Scene, in which Miss Gertrude Chattesworth, Being Adjured by Aunt Becky, Makes Answer

       Chapter 65. Relating Some Awful News that Reached the Village, and How Dr. Walsingham Visited Captain Richard Devereux at His Lodgings

       Chapter 66. Of a Certain Tempest that Arose and Shook the Captain’s Spoons and Tea-Cups; and How the Wind Suddenly Went Down

       Chapter 67. In which a Certain Troubled Spirit Walks

       Chapter 68. How an Evening Passes at the Elms, and Dr. Toole Makes a Little Excursion; and Two Choice Spirits Discourse, and Hebe Trips in with the Nectar

       Chapter 69. Concerning a Second Hurricane that Raged in