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Vardill’s Most Frequently Reproduced Tales

André-Marc Aymé

(in descending order, at least 3 times)

The Norwegian (  Legends of Lampidosa 1 , April 1817) (  15 times  )

Other titles: “The Blind Boy”, “The Idiot Accuser”.

With one illustration (W.C. Walker) in The New Casket , London, 1833; and with one illustration in Tales of Travellers , London, 1838.

The Bronze Statue (  Annals of Public Justice 4 , May 1820) (  14 times  )

One Dutch edition (“Het Bronzen Beeld”) in Het klaverblad , Rotterdam, 1837.

Tale reproduced in Westminster Detective Library (American blog 2008-2022; AJV uncredited).

The Austrian Assassin (  Annals of Public Justice 2 , March 1820) (  11 times  )

The High Court of Justiciary and Gordon the Gypsy , (  Annals of Public Justice 1 , February 1820) (  10 times  )

Theatrical adaptation (1822-1827): Gordon the Gypsy .

With one illustration in The Stanley Tales , Vol. 2, London, 1826; and with one illustration (W.C. Walker) in The New Casket , London, 1832 or 1833.

Tale falsely attributed to James Hogg after his death.

The Brothers of Dijon (  Annals of Public Justice 5 , June 1820) (  9 times  )

One German edition (“Der Bruder von Dijon”) in Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände , Stuttgart, 1820.

The Czar and Czarowitz (  Annals of Public Justice 6 , July 1820) (  7 times  )

Il Due Gobbi (  Annals of Public Justice 8 , August 1820) (  7 times  )

The Secrets of Cabalism 4 , April 1821 (  6 times  )

Theatrical adaptation: Ravenstone and Alice of Huntingdon (1821)

In the anthology Gothic Tales of Terror , vol 1, Haining, London, 1972, (  Secrets of Cabalism or Ravenstone and Alice of Huntingdon  ), falsely attributed to William Child Green.

The Secrets of Cabalism 5 , May 1821 (  6 times  ).

Other title: “The Sylph”.

The Black Gondola (  Annals of Public Justice 9 , September 1820) (cont. “d’Il Due Gobbi”) (  5 times  )

The Western Assize Court in 1689 (  Annals of Public Justice 3 , April 1820) (  5 times  )

Sandy Fraser (  Extracts from a Lawyer’s Portfolio 6 , May 1818) (  5 times  )

The Lunatic (  Extracts from a Lawyer’s Portfolio 7 , June 1818) (  5 times  )

Tale reproduced in Westminster Detective Library (American blog 2008-2022; AJV uncredited).

The Ship of the Dead (  Relics of Popular Superstitions 6 , May 1819) (  5 times  )

The Spectre Harper (  Relics of Popular Superstitions 5 , April 1819) (  5 times  )

The Pariah of Bombay (  Relics of Popular Superstitions 4 , March 1819) (  4 times  )

The Traveller’s Dream (  Annals of Public Justice 7 , August 1820) (  4 times  )

The Brother’s House (  Extracts from a Lawyer’s Portfolio 9 , August 1818) (  4 times  )

Tale reproduced in Westminster Detective Library (American blog 2008-2022; AJV uncredited).

The Assignment (  Extracts from a Lawyer’s Portfolio 1 , December 1817) (  4 times  )

It’s clearly the plagiarism of this tale in The Bower of Taste (Mrs Katherine A. Ware, Boston, 1828) that makes Poe say in his Marginalia :

“Stolen, body and soul (and spoilt in the stealing), from a paper of the same title 1 in the European Magazine for December, 1817. Blunderingly done throughout, and must have cost more trouble than an original thing.” And Poe said also: “The ladies, however, should positively not be guilty of these tricks; — for one has never the heart to unmask or deplume them.”

The Spaniard (  Legends of Lampidosa 5 , August 1817) (  4 times  )

One Dutch edition: In Algemeen letterlievend maandschrift , Volume 3, 1823: (“Juana, of het Slagtoffer van den Minnenijd”)

The Russian (  Legends of Lampidosa 2 , May 1817) (  4 times  )

The Parisian (  Legends of Lampidosa 3 , June 1817) (  3 times  )

The Italian (  Legends of Lampidosa 6 , September 1817) (  3 times  )

The Englishwoman (  Legends of Lampidosa 7 , October 1817) (  3 times  )

The Glen of Green Spirits (  Relics of Popular Superstitions 2 , January 1819) (  3 times  )

St Mark’s Eve in Yorkshire (  Relics of Popular Superstitions 3 , February 1819) (  3 times  )

The Gallery of Grondo (  Tales of Today 3 , September 1819) (  3 times  )

The Heir (  Extracts from a Lawyer’s Portfolio 3 , February 1818) (  3 times  )

The Natural Son (  Extracts from a Lawyer’s Portfolio 4 , March 1818) (  3 times  )

Family History (  Extracts from a Lawyer’s Portfolio 5 , April 1818) (  3 times  )

Count Struensee (  Secrets of Cabalism 2 , February 1821) (  3 times  )

Notes

  1. “Discrimination” in Bower of Taste . ↩