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Word: "Is your lordship not going to order a battue soon for all these famished beasts?"

1. The driving of game from cover (by beating the bushes, etc. in which they lodge) to a point where a number of sportsmen wait to shoot them.

10. F.H. Brunell - The Ghostly Christmas Gift, 3 stars. Old friend is haunted by the spectre of a thief he killed.
11. Luke Sharp - The Blizzard, 3 stars. Ill-prepared friends try out pioneer life, can't even build a proper chimney, the chumps.
12. Louis Glass - Warned by the Wire, 3 stars. Telegraph operator receives warning of future accidents.

Word: "Out with the rest of the dunnage."

1. Light material, as brushwood, mats, and the like, stowed among and beneath the cargo of a vessel to keep it from injury by chafing or wet; any lighter or less valuable articles of the cargo used for the same purpose.

2. Loosely used for miscellaneous baggage; slang, a sailor's or tramp's clothes.

07. Anonymous - The Snow Flower of the Sierras, 3 stars. Pretty girl was raised in the mountains, dies when she leaves.
08. Julian Hawthorne - The Devil's Christmas, 3 stars. Satan is the special guest at a Christmas party for the rich and famous.
09. Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Harlakenden's Christmas, 2 stars. Ex-sailor misses the life now that he's saddled with a wife and child.

Wiki: "See! with the sunset came once more
The Palatine Light, the ship on fire,
Each generation, son and sire,
Had watched it gleam, since the current bore
The fated ship to a merciless wreck
With the crew in sight on the blazing deck."

Wiki: "In early times, the fire-flower, as it was called, was counted miraculous by the pious few who, on missions of mercy, crossed the icy peaks."

04. Lucy A. Randall - The Christmas Ghost, 3 stars. Estranged man returns home after 18 years, daughter in tow.
05. The Hermit of Iowa - The Frozen Husband, 2 stars. Ignorant mother and daughter accept the proposal of a wealthy stranger.
06. Emma Frances Dawson - A Sworn Statement, 3 stars. Man is chased around the world by a jilted ghost.

Wiki: "Ghosts, gnomes, kelpies, brownies, bogles, goblins, Pucks, Robin Goodfellows, and the numerous tribes of fairies and sprites..."

01. Joseph Holt Ingraham - The Green Huntsman; or, The Haunted Villa, 3 stars. Kidnapper pledges his children to a demon in exchange for blinding a beautiful nun.
02. Bill Bramble - Burt Pringle and the Bellesnickle, 3 stars. Locals tease the new guy with a folk story, has plans of his own.
03. Anonymous - Worse Than a Ghost Story, 3 stars. Wife promises to come back as a reanimated corpse when her husband dies.

Wiki: "The rest of the morning he spent backing his way into the first sentence of a seven-hundred-word piece about a seven-hundred-page book about Warwick Deeping."

Wiki: "The soberly ticking cottage clock, the jar of dried honesty and achillea, the ropes of onions hanging from a high beam, were all tributes to rural restfulness in another time."

48. Possession of Angela Bradshaw, 3 stars. Young woman is possessed by a poet, gets rid of her dull fiance.
49. Cancel All I Said, 3 stars. Smug bastard berates his wife, gets greedy and blows up life to smithereens.
50. The Chaser, 3 stars. Young man buys a love potion, fails to consider the consequences.

45. The Right Side, 2 stars. Devil tries to tempt a suicidal man, hell is a dodgy nightclub.
46. Spring Fever, 2 stars. Sneering artist turns to ventriloquism to get the big bucks, makes his dummy too realistic.
47. Youth from Vienna, 3 stars. Scientist takes a slow revenge on his ex-fiance and her husband, gives them a wedding present.

41. Mary, 3 stars. Ignorant man makes his affection starved wife nurse-maid to a pig.
42. Hell Hath No Fury, 2 stars. Devil is jealous of angel's bland boyfriend.
43. In the Cards, 3 stars. Fortune teller is on the lookout for a potential husband coming into money.
44. The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island, 2 stars. American is convinced he's in love with an Irish fairy.

37. Night! Youth! Paris! and the Moon!, 3 stars. Creeper peeps at a woman from inside a trunk, falls in love.
38. The Steel Cat, 3 stars. Inventor pitches to a sadistic business man, loses his best friend.
39. Sleeping Beauty, 3 stars. Creep buys a sideshow freak, is enraged when she's not appreciative enough.
40. Interpretation of a Dream, 3 stars. Man consults a psychiatrist about a series of chaining dreams.

33. Green Thoughts, 2 stars. Hungry orchid devours pet/person household.
34. Romance Lingers, Adventure Lives, 3 stars. Tired men accidentally swap houses, give each other's wife a grand time.
35. Bird of Prey, 4 stars. Couple's parrot lays a monstrous chick, husband has a jealousy problem.
36. Variation on a Theme, 3 stars. Writer takes an unscrupulous sort under his wing, remains happily ignorant of his betrayal.

29. Thus I Refute Beelzy, 3 stars. Overbearing father lectures son about invisible friends, intends to beat him.
30. Special Delivery, 3 stars. Man falls in love with his department store mannequin.
31. Rope Enough, 3 stars. Man scoffs at native magic trick, later uses it to earn a living.
32. Little Memento, 4 stars. Local man shows newcomer his museum of objects from tragic events, hints at wife's infidelity.

25. Collaboration, 2 stars. Formerly rich man can't cut it as a writer, hires secretaries to do it for him.
26. Midnight Blue, 3 stars. Wife dreams (in great detail) that her husband murdered a coworker.
27. Gavin O'Leary, 1 star. Flea takes on the personality of his latest meal.
28. If Youth Knew, If Age Could, 3 stars. Young man with zero qualities wants to marry an innocent girl, meets a likely one on the bus.

21. The Devil, George, and Rosie, 2 stars. Misogynist punishes women in hell, until he meets a pretty girl.
22. Ah, the University!, 3 stars. Wealthy father prioritizes his comforts over his son's education.
23. Back for Christmas, 4 stars. Doctor murders his meddling wife, thinks he's covered it up successfully.
24. Another American Tragedy, 4 stars. Nephew executes a daft plan to get rich uncle's money at last.

Word: "George dispatched an S.O.S. for one of the leading casuists of Hell proper."

1. A theologian (or other person) who studies and resolves cases of conscience or doubtful questions regarding duty and conduct. (Often with a sinister application: see casuistry.)

20. Manly Wade Wellman - Owls Hoot in the Daytime, 2 stars. Curious man resists temptation in a cave.
21. Richard Matheson & Richard Christian Matheson - Where There's a Will, 2 stars. Man wakes up buried alive, refuses to give up fighting.
22. Gahan Wilson - Traps, 3 stars. Exterminator listens to a crazy rodent lady talk about a rat army.
23. Stephen King - The Mist, 3 stars. [20??]

17. Ray Bradbury - A Touch of Petulance, 3 stars. Man's future self warns present self not to murder his wife.
18. Joe Haldeman - Lindsay and the Red City Blues, 3 stars. Ignorant American tourist takes on street urchins, acts irresponsibly in Morocco.
19. Charles L. Grant - A Garden of Blackred Roses, 2 stars. People steal flowers from a man's garden, pay a dear price.

14. Lisa Tuttle - Where the Stones Grow, 4 stars. Man has a lifelong phobia of rocks after witnessing his father's death in a foreign country.
15. Robert Bloch - The Night Before Christmas, 3 stars. Penniless portrait painter has an affair with a rich man's wife, husband gets revenge.
16. Edward Gorey - The Stupid Joke, 2 stars. Illustrated: child won't get out of bed, bed escapes.

Wiki: "Then again, a lot of Armenian Christians still think the Yezidi straight-up worship the Devil, so I guess it sort of went both ways."

This lady passionately loathes her kid.

Wiki: "Or how it was only the fact of Louis-Aimé Augustin Le Prince’s own still-unsolved disappearance — off a moving train, freakishly enough — which prevented him from “inventing” the motion picture camera five years before the Lumière brothers did."

Wiki: "A familiar idea, except for the trappings. And there was something about it which reminded me of The Golden Bough, James George Frazer’s compendium of pagan lore and tradition."

10. Theodore Sturgeon - Vengeance Is, 4 stars. Local thugs attack the wrong couple, get a gentler end than they deserved.
11. Ramsey Campbell - The Brood, 3 stars. [2018]
12. Clifford D. Simak - The Whistling Well, 4 stars. Writer researching his family gets mega-creeped out by the old homestead.
13. Russell Kirk - The Peculiar Demesne, 3 stars. Government official is kind to an old conman, almost loses his body.

Wiki: "The Archvicar Gerontion — how harmoniously perfect in his evil, his ‘unblemished turpitude’ — was as smoothly foul a being as one might hope to meet."

Wiki: "Gastroliths, the grey-bearded curator had told him."