Mark Twain's tales of the macabre & mysterious

Author(s)

• Twain, Mark
• Rasmussen, R. Kent

Bibliographic Information

Mark Twain's tales of the macabre & mysterious

edited by R. Kent Rasmussen

Lyons Press, c2024

• : pbk

Contents of Works

• A bloody massacre
• The ghost who made an ass of himself
• The witch and the pauper
• Out of focus imaginations
• 'The dead-house
• The cross of the mysterious avenger
• Neglected graveyards
• Repulsive memories
• A grotesque & ghastly performance
• Politically correct cannibals
• A hotel unfit for perdition
• Forty-seven miles in the dark
• The mysterious new boy
• Scaring Nicodemus to death
• Murder will out!
• The incredible shrinking young man
• The war prayer
• Facing one's most pitiless enemy
• Nothing exists but mind
• A corpse not particular about style
• That mysterious country from whose Bourne no traveler returns
• Poetry that softens the terror of death
• A literary nightmare
• Heaven is a large place
• Welcome to the sixth century!
• The fragility of fame
• The death disk
• Lucretia's man in the cotton mask
• A mysterious gender-bending impasse
• Repentance & reform
• A visitation of god
• Joy cometh in the mourning

• NCID: BD06916870
• ISBN:
  • 9781493086139
• LCCN: 2024015200
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Essex, Connecticut
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 262 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS1303
  • DC23 : 813/.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Short stories, American -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Short stories, American -- 20th century