• Publication: Stories with a Vengeance by George Augustus Sala and OthersPublication Record # 281923
• Editor: uncredited
• Date: 1883-00-00
• Publisher: John Dicks
• Price:
  -/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 134
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Webpages: archive.org
• Notes:

  • Series "Dicks' English novels". Only known speculative fiction included. Publication date not stated, but 1883 according to Melvyl and the British Library. (The copyright page of the 1976 Arno Press edition of "Ancient Hauntings" says "ca. 1870".) Publication level data from Melvyl, COPAC and the British Library. Content level data from the copyright page of the 1976 Arno Press edition of "Ancient Hauntings".
  • Contents and price from The Supernatural Index.

  Contents' page numbers from Archive.org copy. "NINE ILLUSTRATIONS" on title page; contents page, which faces p. 134, lists stories and their illustrators. The works by M.H.H. and H.L. Cowen are not illustrated.

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 5 • The Story of Jack the Painter and the Three Ugly Old Women • novelette by George Augustus Sala
• 22 • At the Tunnel's Mouth • short story by Richard Dowling
• 36 • The Haunted Hansom • short story by Howell Davies
• 49 • The Captain of the Fortune: A Naval Tale • short story by Percy B. St. John
• 63 • A Ghost in the Witness-Box • short story by Charles H. Ross
• 69 • Lord Severnoak's Daughter • short story by M. H. H.
• 78 • Years Ago • short story by George Manville Fenn
• 87 • Some Authenticated Ghost Stories • essay by H. L. Cowen
• 95 • Or Runs Your Mind on Another Love? • short story by Jessie Maclaren
• 111 • The Spectre of the Strand: A Tale of the Day • short story by J. Greville Burns
• 127 • Saved • short story by George Augustus Sala