Help! It's the Annual Halloween Horde of Horrible Happenings!

[For previous installments, see 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. Unfortunately, HorrorMasters links have all gone to the great beyond.]

This year's theme: mid-19th c. terrors, ca. 1840-1865 or so.

• "The Mysterious Stranger" (1860).  Involves vampires, coffins, and a lot of nails.  
• "A Night in a Haunted House" (1848).  Man finds himself in the awkward position of conversing with a ghost.  (You may need to search at the link to find the text.) 
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "The Cold Embrace" (1860).  Don't make undying vows that you don't intend to keep...
• Wilkie Collins, "A Terribly Strange Bed."  It's always a good idea to double-check unfamiliar furniture.  
• Page through Catherine Crowe's Ghosts and Family Legends: A Volume for Christmas (1859), in which several people tell ghost stories, Decameron-style.
• Charles Dickens, "A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second."  On the eve of his execution, a man contemplates the murder that brought him to prison.
• Charles Dickens, ed., The Haunted House (1859).  A Christmas Book.  Includes short fiction by Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter (better known as a poet), George Augustus Sala, and Hesba Stretton (best-selling evangelical novelist).
• Amelia B. Edwards, "How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries" (1863).  A working man tells a story of murder and haunting.
• Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Old Nurse's Story" (1852).  A woman relates a tale of long-ago jealousy and injustice.  
• John Berwick Harwood, "Horror: A True Tale" (1861).  A man finds himself besieged by a series of increasingly inexplicable and terrifying happenings in an old mansion.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown."  Yes, you've all read it before, but why not read it again?
• Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter."  Yet another entry in the "please check that your bridegroom is alive before you marry him" sweepstakes.
• ---, "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh."  Mysterious guest arrives; bad things happen.  Anthologized as part of the Purcell Papers.  
• Herman Melville, "The Bell-Tower" (1855).  Something goes not quite right when a mammoth bell is cast.