Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

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Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Harper's Novelettes EDITED BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND HENRY MILLS ALDEN Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London Copyright, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1905, 1906, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

All rights reserved. GEORG SCHOCK THE CHRISTMAS CHILD RICHARD RICE THE WHITE SLEEP OF AUBER HURN HOWARD PYLE IN TENEBRAS MADELENE YALE WYNNE THE LITTLE ROOM HARRIET LEWIS BRADLEY THE BRINGING OF THE ROSE HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE PERDITA M. E. M. DAVIS AT LA GLORIEUSE F. D. MILLET A FADED SCAPULAR E. LEVI BROWN AT THE HERMITAGE H. W. McVICKAR THE REPRISAL Introduction The writers of American short stories, the best short stories in the world, surpass in nothing so much as in their handling of those filmy textures which clothe the vague shapes of the borderland between experience and illusion.

This is perhaps because our people, who seem to live only in the most tangible things of material existence, really live more in the spirit than any other.

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