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; plusscintillating stories by Charlotte Brontë,Elizabeth Gaskell, Rosa Mulholland, Elizabeth Bowen, Ella D'Arcy, and others.