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СКАЧАТЬ a piece called “Revelation of the Spirits,” concerning a man who visits the Virginia state capitol at midnight and finds the ghosts of departed legislators debating current events and condemning the actions of their successors. The references are hopelessly obscure, and I would think it would have been pretty poor stuff even then. However, it seems to have spurred an anonymous contributor to an imitation of sorts and produced for September 1851: “Winderhans and the Gentleman in Black: A Tale of Richmond Thirty Years Ago.” (Which is to say, ca. 1820.) This picture of the Adversary is probably copied from that in Poe’s “The Devil in the Belfry” and from Adelbert von Chamisso’s “Peter Schlemiel,” but it’s more fun than either. I like the dog.

      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 СКАЧАТЬ