by Candace Ward

This delicious variety of outstanding stories ranges over two centuries, from Romanticism to Modernism. It includes George Eliot's Gothic tale 'The Lifted Veil'; 'The Mortal Immortal,' a supernatural fable by Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley; plus scintillating stories by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Rosa Mulholland, Elizabeth Bowen, Ella D'Arcy, and others.