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1. The First Slaughtering

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. THE TEN TALES v
  3. 1. The First Slaughtering 1
  4. 2. From the Yard of Blood to the Yard of the Woman in Red 50
  5. 3. Cupid with His Arrows 80
  6. 4. Lively Souls and Siankes, Their Shadows 141
  7. 5. The Black Shoes, Dekatessara . . . 170
  8. 6. Rapinas Nocturnas (It Wasn’t a Winter’s Tale) 220
  9. 7. The Bell-Wearers; Velvety and the Werewolf 264
  10. 8. “An Evil Angel Passed by and Thought It Good to Touch Me” 336
  11. 9. “The Winds Were Blowing from All Quarters and the Tortoise Went with the Candle on Its Back” 405
  12. 10. “The Bird and the Crumb” 480
At Twilight They Return
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https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300224580-001

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. THE TEN TALES v
  3. 1. The First Slaughtering 1
  4. 2. From the Yard of Blood to the Yard of the Woman in Red 50
  5. 3. Cupid with His Arrows 80
  6. 4. Lively Souls and Siankes, Their Shadows 141
  7. 5. The Black Shoes, Dekatessara . . . 170
  8. 6. Rapinas Nocturnas (It Wasn’t a Winter’s Tale) 220
  9. 7. The Bell-Wearers; Velvety and the Werewolf 264
  10. 8. “An Evil Angel Passed by and Thought It Good to Touch Me” 336
  11. 9. “The Winds Were Blowing from All Quarters and the Tortoise Went with the Candle on Its Back” 405
  12. 10. “The Bird and the Crumb” 480
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