From TWICE-TOLD TALES: The gray champion -- The wedding knell -- Minister's Black Veil The maypole of Merry Mount -- The gentle boy -- Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe -- Wakefield -- The great carbuncle -- The prophetic pictures -- David Swan -- The hollow of the three hills -- The vision of the fountain -- Fancy's show box -- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Legends of the Province House: Howe's masquerade ; Edward Randolph's portrait ; Lady Eleanore's mantle ; Old Esther Dudley -- The village uncle -- The ambitious guest -- The sister years -- The seven vagabonds -- The white old maid -- Peter Goldthwaite's treasure -- The Shaker bridal -- Endicott and the red cross -- The lily's quest -- Edward Fane's rosebud -- The threefold destiny.

From MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE: The birthmark -- A select party -- Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog -- Monsieur du Miroir -- The hall of fantasy -- The celestial railroad -- The procession of life -- Feathertop : a moralized legend -- The new Adam and Eve -- Egotism; or, The bosom serpent -- The Christmas banquet -- Drowne's wooden image -- The intelligence office -- Roger Malvin's burial -- P.'s correspondence -- Earth's holocaust -- Passages from a relinquished work -- The artist of the beautiful -- A virtuoso's collection.

From THE SNOW-IMAGE AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES : The snow-image : a childish miracle -- The great stone face -- Ethan Brand -- Sylph Etherege -- The Canterbury pilgrims -- The man of adamant -- The devil in manuscript -- John Inglefield's thanksgiving -- The wives of the dead -- Little Daffydowndilly -- My knisman, Major Molineux.

MISCELLANEOUS TALES: The antique ring -- Graves and goblins -- Dr. Bullivant -- An old woman's tale -- Alice Doane's appeal -- The ghost of Doctor Harris -- The young provincial -- The haunted quack -- The New England village -- My wife's novel -- The bald eagle.