- 13 stories, or 11
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"A 'devil's dozen' of short stories of the hair-raising kind have been brought together ... They turn upon the passion of fear--especially as produced by the unknown, the mysterious, and the supernatural ..."
--brief positive review The Scotsman 1910-07-21 p2 (names none of the 13)
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"EN also wrote Horror stories, most of which are collected in Grim Tales (coll 1893), Something Wrong (coll 1893) and Fear (coll 1910), the last comprising 5 stories from Grim Tales plus 6 newer stories."
--SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy, biog. entry by Lisa Tuttle
"Most of Nesbit's supernatural fiction" is assembled in the same three collections and Man and Maid (1906).
--SFE3, biog. entry by John Clute
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Publ date (inferred) and price from listing The Observer 1910-07-17 p6 among "Stanley Paul's Recent 6/- Fiction"; review The Scotsman p2 under "Fiction" (positive)
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The Scotsman review names none of the stories but reports "a 'devil's dozen' stories" (13) and describes the first, which reveals that it is "The Five Senses".
SFE3 identifies "The Five Senses" and no other.
SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy identifies none of "5 stories from Grim Tales plus 6 newer stories" (11).
Page # for "The Ebony Frame" from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/37416/PDF/1/play/.
