The Book of the Living Dead

by John Richard Stephens

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  Lovecraft, H. P. “Herbert West: Reanimator,” Home Brew, vol. 1, nos. 1-6, published in six parts, February-July 1922.

  I. “ From the Dark,” Home Brew, February 1922.

  II. “The Plague-Daemon,” Home Brew, March 1922.

  III. “Six Shots by Moonlight,” Home Brew, April 1922.

  IV. “The Scream of the Dead,” Home Brew, May 1922.

  V.“The Horror from the Shadows,” Home Brew, June 1922.

  VI. “The Tomb-Legions,” Home Brew, July 1922.

  Lowell, Amy. “The Cross-Roads,” Men, Women and Ghosts, New York: Macmillan, 1916.

  Maupassant, (Henri René Albert) Guy de. “La Main” (“The Hand”), Le Gaulois, December 23, 1883. Anonymous translator, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, New York: Walter J. Black, 1903. Also published as “The Englishman.”

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  Scott, Sir Walter.“The Hero of the Tomb”, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, Edinburgh, Scotland: Ballantyne & Co., 1840, citing Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150-1220), Gesta Danorum, vol. 5.

  Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 revised edition, abridged by John Richard Stephens. This novel was originally published in 1818.

  Twain, Mark. “A Curious Dream (Containing a Moral), Buffalo Express, April 30 and May 7, 1870.