The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Megapack. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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      COPYRIGHT INFO

      The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Megapack is copyright © 2013 by Wildside Press LLC. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the publisher.

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      “The Wind in the Rose-Bush” originally appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, February, 1902.

      “The Shadows on the Wall” originally appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, March, 1903.

      “Luella Miller” originally appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, December, 1902.

      “The Southwest Chamber” originally appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, April, 1903.

      “The Vacant Lot” originally appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, September, 1902.

      “The Lost Ghost” originally appeared in originally appeared in Everybody’s Magazine, May, 1903.

      “A Far-Away Melody” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, September 1883.

      “The Little Maid at the Door” originally appeared in Harper’s, February 1892.

      “A Symphony in Lavender” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, August 1883.

      “The Hall Bedroom” originally appeared in Collier’s, March 28, 1903.

      “A Gentle Ghost” originally appeared in Harper’s Monthly, August 1889.

      “The Twelfth Guest” originally appeared in Harper’s Monthly, December 1889.

      “The Witch’s Daughter” originally appeared in Harper’s Weekly, Dec. 1, 1910.

      “The Prism” originally appeared in The Century Magazine, July 1901.

      “The Pot of Gold” originally appeared in Wide Awake, September, 1886.

      “The Cow with Golden Horns” originally appeared in Wide Awake, June, 1884.

      “Princess Rosetta and the Pop-Corn Man” originally appeared in Wide-Awake, August, 1890.

      “The Christmas Monks” originally appeared in Wide-Awake, January 1883.

      “The Pumpkin Giant” originally appeared in From Wide Awake, November, 1882.

      “The Christmas Masquerade.” originally appeared in Wide Awake, December, 1886.

      “The Dill” originally appeared in Wide Awake, December, 1887.

      “The Silver Hen.” originally appeared in Wide Awake, December, 1888.

      “Toby” originally appeared Wide Awake, in August, 1883.

      “The Patchwork School” originally appeared in Wide Awake, December, 1883.

      “The Squire’s Sixpence” originally appeared in Wide Awake, May, 1888.

      “A Plain Case” originally appeared in Wide Awake, June, 1889.

      “The Stranger in the Village” originally appeared in Wide Awake, March, 1885.

      “The Bound Girl” originally appeared in Wide Awake, August, 1885.

      “Deacon Thomas Wales’s Will” originally appeared in Wide Awake, September, 1885.

      “The Adopted Daughter” originally appeared in Wide Awake, October, 1885.

      “Two Old Lovers” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, March 31, 1883.

      “The Bar Light-house” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, April 28, 1883

      “The Story of Little Mary Whitlow” originally appeared in Lippincott’s Magazine, May 1883.

      “A Mistaken Charity” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, May 26, 1883.

      “A Tardy Thanksgiving” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, December 15, 1883.

      “On the Walpole Road” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, February 9, 1884.

      “A Humble Romance” originally appeared in Harper’s New Monthly, June 1884.

      “A Modern Dragon” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, June 14, 1884.

      “An Honest Soul” originally appeared in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, July, 1884.

      “A Moral Exigency” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, July 26, 1884.

      “A Taste of Honey” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, September 6, 1884.

      “A Gatherer of Simples” originally appeared in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, October, 1884.

      “Brakes and White Vi’lets” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, November 8, 1884.

      “An Object of Love” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, February 14, 1885.

      “A Souvenir” originally appeared in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, March, 1885.

      “Old Lady Pingree” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, May 2, 1885.

      “A Wayfaring Couple” originally appeared in Utica Weekly Herald, Tuesday, May 26, 1885.

      “In Butterfly Time” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, July 25, 1885.

      “An Old Arithmetician” originally appeared in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, September, 1885.

      “Robins and Hammers” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, September 19, 1885.

      “Gentian” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, January 23, 1886.

      “A Conflict Ended” originally appeared in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, February, 1886.

      “The ‘Horse House’ Deed” originally appeared in Wide Awake, March, 1886.

      “An Unwilling Guest” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, March 20, 1886.

      “Cinnamon Roses” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, August 7, 1886.

      “A Wandering Samaritan” originally appeared in The Cosmopolitan, September, 1886.

      “A Lover of Flowers” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, September 4, 1886.

      “A Patient Waiter” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, November 6, 1886.

      “A Conquest of Humility” originally appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, January 29, 1887.

      A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

      Victorian author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is most remembered today for her ghost stories, but she was a prolific and popular author in many genres: not only the supernatural, but mystery and suspense, romance, and especially contemporary fiction were her forté.

      She was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and attended Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870–71. She later finished her education at West Brattleboro Seminary.

      She began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. While working as secretary to the author and physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., she began writing poetry and novels with a strong New England regional flavor. When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism, and these have proved very influential. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph.

      She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. She is best known for two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908).

      For this volume, we have grouped the most famous