Thanks to Mark Owings’ contributions to this Megapack, we would like to dedicate this volume to his memory. His research is responsible for 11 of the 20 stories in The Second Macabre Megapack.
—The Editors.
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THE MEGAPACK SERIES
The Adventure Megapack
The Boys’ Adventure Megapack
The Christmas Megapack
The Second Christmas Megapack
The Classic American Short Story 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 Horror Megapack
The Macabre Megapack
The Second Macabre Megapack
The Martian Megapack
The Military Megapack
The Mummy Megapack
The 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 E.F. Benson Megapack
The Second E.F. Benson Megapack
The B.M. Bower Megapack
The Wilkie Collins Megapack
The Philip K. Dick Megapack
The Jacques Futrelle Megapack
The Randall Garrett Megapack
The G.A. Henty Megapack
The Andre Norton Megapack
The H. Beam Piper Megapack
The Rafael Sabatini Megapack
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
“The Gray Lady,” by Mary E. Lee, originally appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger, July 1948.
“The Ebony Frame,” by Edith Nesbit, originally appeared in 1891.
“The Doom,” by Benedict, originally appeared in Southern Literary Messenger, January 1935.
“The Curse of the Catafalques,” by F. Anstey, originally appeared in The Black Poodle: And Other Tales (1884).
“The Striding Place,” by Gertrude Atherton, originally appeared in The Speaker, June 20, 1896.
“Extraordinary Indian Feats of Legerdemain,” by David Dawson Mitchell, originally appeared in Southern Literary Messenger, April 1935.
“Sister Seraphine,” by Edna W. Underwood, is taken from A Book of Dear Dead Women (1911).
“Lazarus,” by Leonid Andreyev, originally appeared in
“The Transfigured,” by Heinrich Zschokke, is translated from the German. This translation originally appeared anonymously in the Southern Literary Messenger, April 1839.
“The Uncanny Bairn,” by Mrs. Alfred (Louisa) Baldwin, originally appeared in 1892.
“Uncle Abraham’s Romance,” by Edith Nesbit, is taken from Grim Tales (1893).
“Man-Size in Marble,” by Edith Nesbit, originally appeared in 1886.
“The Secret of the Stradivarius,” by Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus) originally appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine (1881).
“Mr. Gray’s Strange Story,” by Louisa Murray, originally appeared in The Week (February 26, 1892).
“Mr. Lindsay’s Manuscript,” by T. H. E., originally appeared in Southern Literary Messenger, March 1850
“Rosaura and Her Relations,” by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, originally appeared in Wild Love and Other Tales (1844).
“The Enchanted Gifts,” by Mrs. Jane L. Swift, originally appeared in Southern Literary Messenger, February 1844.
“The Gallows Man,” by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, originally appeared in Southern Literary Messenger, in this original translation, in March 1846. The story is also known as “The Bottle-Imp.”
“The Rock of Hans Heiling,” by Theodor Koerner, originally appeared in Southern Literary Messenger, March 1846.
“The Vision of Agib” originally appeared anonymously in the Southern Literary Messenger, December 1837.
“Winderhans and The Gentleman in Black,” originally appeared anonymously in the Southern Literary Messenger, September 1851.
THE GRAY LADY, by Mary E. Lee
Some miles from the town of Milford in Wales, lies a small village, whose parsonage had some singular circumstances connected with its history, and although the post was tolerably lucrative, and the parishioners