The Annual Halloween Horrorama! Scary Objects Edition

In this year's roundup of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century horror, we have...fifteen spooky things.  Clothes.  Bags.  Bedsheets.  Paintings.  Books.  You might want to keep a close eye on your knicknack shelves.

(For previous installments, see 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.  Alas, all links to HorrorMasters are now duds.) 

• "The Weird Violin" (Gaslight).  As a general rule, avoid musical instruments linked to lovers' quarrels.
• E. F. Benson, "The Room in the Tower" (Gaslight).  I've linked this before, but it's always good for a scare.  Remember that when the paintings move, so should you.
• ---, "The Other Bed" (Moonlight Stories).  You may wish to make sure that that empty bed is actually empty. 
• Algernon Blackwood, "The Kit-Bag"  (Project Gutenberg).  It's probably a good idea to check the provenance of your various luggage items.
• Mme. Blavatsky,  "The Ensouled Violin" (Gaslight).  A violin gets humanized, as it were.
• Bernard Capes, "The Green Bottle" (Horror Stories).  Wine bottles have been known to contain things other than wine. 
• Hugh Conway, "The Secret of the Stradivarius" (Gaslight).  If your musical instruments could talk...
• W. W.  Jacobs, "The Monkey's Paw" (Gaslight).  Those three wishes can be tricky things.
• Henry James, "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" (The Ladder).  Ah, the dangers of jealousy...
• M. R. James, "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" (Gaslight).  Why you should never engage in archaeology.
• ---, "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook" (Literary Gothic).  Collecting antiquarian books is often contraindicated.
• ---, "The Haunted Doll's House" (PDF only) (Literary Gothic).  Small doll things can be as scary as big ones.
• Edith Nesbit, "The Ebony Frame" (Literary Gothic).  A new frame animates an old painting.
• ---, "The Power of Darkness" (Pseudopodium).  May cause permanent allergies to Madame Tussaud's.
• Bram Stoker, "The Judge's House" (Victorian Ghost Stories).  Bell ropes + paintings of hanging judges = well, you figure it out. 

Comments

[Nemo]

Might I recommed "The Case of Mr. Lucraft" (a/k/a "The Appetite of Mr. Lucraft") by Walter Besant and James Rice. A desperate young man sells something intangible to a sinister older man, however it is NOT his soul.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602141h.html

Also, I was reading Arthur Machen's THE THREE IMPOSTORS last week. This is supposed to be a novel, but it is really a collection of stories (some better than others) built around a frame story. Of interest here because one character makes a passing reference to ROBERT ELSMERE.

[Miriam]

Thanks for the heads up!