My Aunt Margarets Mirrorby Sir Walter Scott
A haunting gothic tale of a woman consulting a mystic mirror to witness her husbands attempted bigamy and its tragic consequences. A moral fable on the dangers of seeking forbidden knowledge and the consequences of betrayal.
The Steel Mirrorby William Wilthew Fenn
A vivid, haunting dream about a mysterious, antique steel mirror which acts as a prophetic or magical object. The events that unfold in the dream appear to be a dark foretelling of the future
The Face in the Glassby Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A young womans reflection begins to show her as haggard and aged, ultimately warning of approaching, premature death
A Dark Mirrorby Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Instead of reflecting clear, colorful images, this peculiar glass casts back livid, shadowy reflections. The unnamed narrator peers into this dark mirror to witness a grim tableau representing the Brontë family.
The Haunted Glassby Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
A man becomes trapped in a bizarre, cyclical loop of death and rebirth.
The Glass of Supreme Momentsby Barry Pain
An enigmatic woman shows him, in a magic mirror, the supreme moments in the lives of his friends. His own supreme moment is death and she is Death.
The Magic Mirrorby Thomas J. Vivian
A sailor gives his sweetheart an ancient Persian mirror in which she sees his fatal love affair with another mans wife.
The Face in the Mirrorby Helen Mathers
Strains of music draw her to an abandoned room in her friends manor, where she finds a mirror displaying a ghost re-enacting its death.
The Silver Mirrorby Arthur Conan Doyle
The mirror replays the 1566 assassination of David Rizzio in the presence of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The Chippendale Mirrorby E. F. Benson
The mirrors surface inexplicably darkens to reveal horrific glimpses of the supernatural. The mirror which hung in the victims bedroom has recorded Mrs. Yeats murder in all its grisly glory.
In the Mirrorby Valery Bryusov
A woman who fills her room with mirrors becomes infatuated with her reflection, and loses her sanity as the reflection tries to take her place in the real world.
The Looking Glassby J. D. Beresford
An aging delusional aunt struggles to accept reality; her neice discovers the truth about her look-alike aunt
The Magic Mirrorby Mary S. Brown
The narrator encounters a mysterious girls reflection in mirrors. She communicates through written messages, explaining that she cannot fully appear due to existing between dimensions.
The Trapby Henry S. Whitehead
and H. P. Lovecraft
A boarding school teacher discovers that his recently acquired antique mirror acts as a trans-dimensional prison created by a dark sorcerer in search of immortality.
The Mirrorby George Burrowes
A strange and tragic story of a looking-glass that reflected what did not lie before it.
The Florentine Mirrorby Frederick Cowles
An antique mirror in an elaborately grotesque frame hosts a centuries-dead ghost, and the current owner is falling under his evil spell.
The Magic Mirrorby Algernon Blackwood
A man on a cruise ship regales his friends with the story of a haunted artifact from Tibet that can bring immense wealth but inevitably causes a tragic demise.
The Mirrorby Liam Kennedy
Who or what was the murderous wraith in that old dressing-room? The terrifying experience of an opera singer.
The Snow Queenby Hans Christian Andersen
Gerda embarks on a perilous quest to rescue her best friend, Kai, after he is corrupted by an evil mirror and abducted by the icy Snow Queen.
The Magic Mirrorby George MacDonald
Cosmos mirror has enslaved a princess to appear in the reflection of any room in which it is set.
The Mirrorby Catulle Mendès
A fable-like allegory: A hideously ugly queen bans all reflective surfaces in her kingdom to avoid seeing herself, ultimately learning a tragic lesson about inner beauty.
