Eggp’s Reviews > The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goety, and Voodoo > Status Update

39. John Guinan - The Watcher o’ the Dead, 2 stars. Man promises his dying friend that he'll hang out in the graveyard every night.
40. E. & H. Heron - The Story of Konnor Old House, 3 stars. Glowing ghost that drives a people crazy is just stinky library fungus.
41. W.B. Seabrook - Toussel’s Pale Bride, 3 stars. Pretty young girl marries an older rich man, ruins his voodoo plans by fleeing their anniversary dinner.

36. Frederick Marryat - The White Wolf Of The Hartz Mountains, 3 stars. Murderer is tricked into marrying a sexy werewolf, breaks his oath on the life of his children.
37. Roger Pater - A Porta Inferi, 2 stars. Medium gets possessed by the spirit of a murderer, dies in an insane asylum.
38. Richard Barham - Jerry Jarvis’s Wig, 3 stars. Gardener is gifted a dishonest lawyer's old wig, turns to a life of crime.

33. Roger Pater - The Astrologer's Legacy, 2 stars. Mysterious antique tableware intrigues scholarly birthday dinner guests.
34. Amelia B. Edwards - My Brother’s Ghost Story, 3 stars. Groom dies rushing home early to surprise his bride, new friends see/hear his ghost.
35. Vincent O'Sullivan - The Bargain of Rupert Orange, 3 stars. Former pampered rich dandy sells his soul for 5 years of health, wealth, and comfort.

30. Richard Barham - Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, Doctor in Divinity, 3 stars. Medical student dabbles in the occult, tortures people that love him.
31. Jasper John - The Spirit of Stonehenge, 2 stars. Amateur archaeologist is compelled to make a blood sacrifice for the stones.
32. Jasper John - The Seeker of Souls, 3 stars. Unseen apparation knocks on doors, goes back to bed every night.

27. Vernon Lee - Oke of Okehurst, 3 stars. Cousins' incompatible married life is overshadowed by their mutual ancestors' adultery/murder scandal.
28. Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Eveline's Visitant, 3 stars. Ugly cousin kills attractive cousin in a duel, wife is haunted by his pretty ghost.
29. Roger Pater - De Profundis, 3 stars. Priests investigate a wayward convent after hearing a distressed voice there.

Wiki: "About five o'clock, as I was strolling among the red-brick round-gabled outhouses--each with its armorial oak--and the old-fashioned spalliered kitchen and fruit garden..."

23. Vincent O'Sullivan - When I was Dead, 3 stars. Hostile dead man refuses to accept the obvious.
24. E. & H. Heron - The Story of Yand Manor House, 3 stars. Interfering with a corpse stops a crushing haunting.
25. Vincent O'Sullivan - The Business of Madame Jahn, 3 stars. Impatient nephew murders aunt for spending money.
26. Vernon Lee - Amour Dure, 3 stars. Historian falls in love with a murderess 300 years dead.

19. Charles Dickens - To be Taken with a Grain of Salt, 3 stars. Ghost of a murder victim influences the jury.
20. Charles Dickens - The Signal-Man, 3 stars. Man is warned by a figure multiple times about impending accidents.
21. Charles Collins - The Compensation House, 3 stars. Guilty man has a fear of mirrors.
22. Amelia B. Edwards - The Engineer, 3 stars. Close "friends" fight over the same unfaithful lover.

Wiki: "It represented a woman with brown eyes and golden hair, looking over her shoulder into a circular mirror held by a bearded man in the background."

16. Miss Braddon - The Cold Embrace, 3 stars. Unfaithful lover can't be bothered to end his secret engagement, fiancé kills herself rather than be married to another.
17. Amelia B. Edwards - How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries, 2 stars. Kind man loses his young sweetheart to a wily Frenchman.
18. Rosa Mulholland - Not To Be Taken At Bed-time, 3 stars. Vengeful man puts a love curse on his enemy's pretty daughter.