Tales of terror; or, The mysteries of magic: a selection of wonderful and supernatural stories / translated from the Chinese, Turkish, and German. Compiled by Henry St. Clair. Two volumes in one.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

St. Clair, Henry, compiler.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Chinese

English

German

Turkish

Subjects (All):

Ghost stories.

Supernatural in literature.

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Peterson, Ichabod (autograph) (stamp)

Peterson, Waldo (autograph)

Physical Description:

iv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered pages-176, 119 pages : frontispiece ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Mysteries of magic

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Harding, 1848.

Contents:

v. 1. The magic dice, an awful narrative. The gored huntsman. The Nikkur Holl. Der Freischutz, or the magic balls. The story of Judar. The boarwolf. The cavern of death. The mysterious bell. The dervise of Alfouran. Hassan Assar, caliph of Bagdat.

v. 2. The astrologer of the nineteenth century. The Flying Dutchman. The tiger's cave. Peter Rugg, the missing man. The haunted forest. The lonely man of the ocean. The Hungarian horse dealer. The wreckers of St. Agnes.

Notes:

Title vignettes.

"...The Editor, has, therefore, sought and put together such supernatural tales as are written with equal power, and are less generally known ... Great care has been taken to admit nothing of immoral or irreligious tendency."--Preface, p. [iii]-iv

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph and stamp of Ichabod Peterson, 1849

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Waldo Peterson.

Culture Class Collection copy has annotations written in ms.

OCLC:

18453068