Madder Mysteries

Contents:

• Introduction
• Baskerville's Midgets
• The Wig: A Monologue for an Actor
• Tawny
• The Head
• The Devil's Funeral
• A Donkey at the Mysteries
• The Game of Bear (with by M. R. James)
• The Devil's Number
• Stella Gibbons, a Writer and the Supernatural (essay)
• Ghost Stories of Another Antiquary: Montague Summers and the Supernatural Tale (essay)
• The Scholar and the Story Teller: Aspects of M. R. James (essay)
• Religion, Evil, and Obsession in the Ghostly Stories of Henry James (essay)
• Putting on the Surrealist Hat: The Decadent Aesthetic of Jules Charnier
• The Sleeping Portrait of Monkshood Hall
• Temporary Disappearance of a School
• The Destruction of the Great Empires by Trees
• Mrs. Midnight's Animal Comedians
• A Boiled Egg Called Lowestoft
• A Cautionary Tale Concerning Beards
• The Romantic Ruin at St. Botolph's
• The Rev. Arthur Gasport and His Daemonograph
• "I Uomini di Burro" by Ugo Sossigi
• Soren Ünting and His Philosophy
• Acknowledgements