xix, 588 pages ; 20 cm. Contents: I. The Visionary Fantastic of the Nineteenth Century : The story of the Demoniac Pacheco / Jan Potocki -- Autumn sorcery / Joseph von Eichendorff -- The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The elixir of life / Honoré de Balzac -- The eye with no lid / Philaréte Chasles -- The enchanted hand / Gérard de Nerval -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The nose / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol -- The beautiful vampire / Théophile Gautier -- The Venus of Ille / Prosper Mérimée -- The ghost and the bonesetter / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- II. The Everyday Fantasic of the Nineteenth Century : The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- The dream / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev -- A shameless rascal / Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov -- The very image / Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Night: a nightmare / Guy de Maupassant -- A lasting love / Vernon Lee -- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce -- The holes in the mask / Jean Lorrain -- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The friends of the friends / Henry James -- The bridge-builders / Rudyad Kipling -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells. Wells.