Marvellous tales of haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted houses

Mother Goose.

Old Mr. Salford was a crab-apple of an old gentleman who wandered all day in the Gardens (1913)

Peter Pan is the fairies’ orchestra (1913)

Puss in boots. (1911)

Put his strange case before old Solomon Caw (1913)

Reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones

Ring a ring o’ roses. (1912)

Sauntering along in the twilight

She did not mind death, but she could not stand pinching. (1911)

‘She hath a mark, like a violet, between her shoulders, and another like it on the instep of her left foot.’ (1912)

Sir Thomas, her Lord, was stout of limb. (1911)

The Duchess shed tears large as marrow-fat peas. (1911)

The frog prince (1913)

The horn, at the gate of the Barbican tower, was blown with a loud twenty-trumpeter power. (1911)

The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives (1913)

‘The knight took the beautiful girl in his arms and bore her over the narrow space where the stream had divided her little island from the shore.’

The little man had seated himself in the centre of the circle upon the large skull (1911)

The moment her shadowy form met his view he…made one grasshopper spring to the door–and was gone! (1911)

The princess and the pea

‘The rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some outdoor work to do’ (1905)

The spectre of Tappington (1911)

The white snake (1920)

The wolf disguised as grandmother (1902)

There’s an old woman dwells upon Tappington Moor. (1911)

These stiles sadly bothered Odille. (1911)

These tricky fairies sometimes change the board on a ball night (1913)

‘They crowed round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity.’ (1905)

They’d such very odd heads and such very odd tails. (1911)

Undine outside the window (1912)