Fantastics and Other Fancies

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I AM conscious they are only trivial, wrote Lafcadio Hearn from New Orleans in 1880 to his friend H. E. Krehbiel, speaking of the weird little Sketches he was publishing from time to time in the columns of the Daily...