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Title: A Stable for Nightmares
or Weird Tales

Author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Charles Young
and Others

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Language: English

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A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES

[Illustration: A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES]

A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES

OR

WEIRD TALES

BY

J. SHERIDAN LE FANU
AUTHOR OF "UNCLE SILAS," "HOUSE BY THE CHURCHYARD,"

SIR CHARLES YOUNG, BART.

AND OTHERS

Illustrated

NEW YORK NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY
156 FIFTH AVENUE
1896

Copyright, 1896,
by
NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

DICKON THE DEVIL, 9

A DEBT OF HONOR, 27

DEVEREUX'S DREAM, 59

CATHERINE'S QUEST, 89

HAUNTED, 115

PICHON AND SONS, OF THE CROIX ROUSSE, 135

THE PHANTOM FOURTH, 163

THE SPIRIT'S WHISPER, 185

DR. FEVERSHAM'S STORY, 209

THE SECRET OF THE TWO PLASTER CASTS, 229

WHAT WAS IT? 241

DICKON THE DEVIL.

About thirty years ago I was selected by two rich old maids to visit a
property in that part of Lancashire which lies near the famous forest of
Pendle, with which Mr. Ainsworth's "Lancashire Witches" has made us so
pleasantly familiar. My business was to make partition of a small
property, including a house and demesne to which they had, a long t