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Title: Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

Author: Various

Editor: William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden

Release Date: November 28, 2008 [EBook #27352]

Language: English

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Shapes that
Haunt the Dusk

Harper's Novelettes

EDITED BY

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

AND

HENRY MILLS ALDEN

[Illustration: Publisher's Logo]

Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London

Copyright, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898,
1905, 1906, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

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_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 bec