• Publication: After DarkPublication Record # 360840
• Author: Wilkie Collins
• Date: 1856-02-00
• Publisher: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • The stories are linked by the framing narrative "Leaves from Leah's Diary", which is non-speculative and not indexed here.
  • Description of this edition from Wilkie Collins Information Pages: "2 volumes, Smith, Elder, London 1856. Dark grey-green cloth, covers blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt, pale yellow end-papers. Half-title in each volume. Published in February 1856. Variant binding in paper boards, half cloth, with white end-papers. Vol I viii + 316 pp. 16 pp publishers' catalogue bound in at end (dated January, February or April 1856). Vol II (iv) + 324 pp. Publisher's advertisement occupies p. (323)."
  • WorldCat notes this as published in 2 volumes, but no page counts
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 4341884

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed • short story by Wilkie Collins (variant of A Terribly Strange Bed 1852)
• The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter • non-genre • short story by Wilkie Collins (variant of A Stolen Letter 1854)
• The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose • non-genre • novella by Wilkie Collins (variant of Sister Rose 1855)
• The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange • non-genre • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Lady of Glenwith Grange)
• The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of Gabriel's Marriage 1853)
• The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask • novella by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Yellow Mask 1855)