Demons of the night : tales of the fantastic, madness, and the supernatural from nineteenth-century France / edited and with nine new translations by Joan C. Kessler.
Smarra, or The demons of the night / Charles Nodier -- Red Inn / Honore de Balzac -- Venus of Ille / Prosper Merimee -- Dead in love ; Arria Marcella / Theophile Gautier -- Slap of Charlotte Corday / Alexandre Dumas -- Aurelia, or Dream and life / Gerard de Nerval -- Master Zacharius / Jules Verne -- Sign ; Vera / Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Horla ; Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Veiled man / Marcel Schwob.
