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The Iron Coffin (excerpt from Faust)

George W. M. Reynolds

First published 1898
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story


This is an excerpt from the 1847 novel Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals (see). It comprises most of ch. 92-93 (among Prologue, 94 chapters, and Epilogue), namely "The Iron Coffin" and "The Last Stroke of the Bell".

  (From " Faust," A Romance. By George W. M. Reynolds.) That is the entire annotation in the 1898 anthology (and the 1981 Castle Books reprint) Contents list, below the line (title and page number); identically in the story heading.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1898 Cover The Eerie Book J. Shiells & Co. Anthology 15
1981 Cover The Eerie Book Castle Books Anthology 15