Author's note
Prologue
pt. 1. Demon bridegroom
Ash Wednesday eve, 1905
Postscript: "Ash Wednesday eve, 1905"
Narcissus
The spectral daughter
Angel trumpet; or, "Mr. Mayte of Virginia "
Author's Note: Princeton snobbery
The unspeakable I
The burning girl
Author's Note: The historian's confession
The spectral wife
The demon bridegroom
pt. 2. The curse incarnate
The duel
Postscript: The historian's dilemma
The unspeakable II
The cruel husband
The search cont'd
October 1905
"God's creation as viewed from the evolutionary hypothesis"
The phantom lovers
The turquoise-marbled book
The bog kingdom
Postscript: Archaeopteryx
The curse incarnate
pt. 3. "The brain, within its groove ..."
"Voices"
Bluestocking temptress
The glass owl
"Ratiocination our salvation"
The ochre-runnered sleigh
"Snake frenzy"
Postscript: Nature's burden
"Defeat at Charleston"
"My precious darling ..."
"A narrow fellow in the grass ..."
Dr. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler's novelty machine
Quatre face
"Angel trumpet" elucidated
"Armageddon"
pt. 4. The curse exorcised
Cold spring
21 May 1906
Lieutenant Bayard by night
Postscript: On the matter of the "unspeakable" at Princeton
"Here dwells happiness"
The nordic soul
Terra incognita I
Terra incognita II
The wheatsheaf enigma I
The wheatsheaf enigma II
"Sole living heir of nothingness"
The temptation of Woodrow Wilson
Postscript: "The second battle of Princeton"
Dr. De Sweinitz's prescription
The curse exorcised
A game of draughts
The death of Winslow Slade
"Revolution is the hour of laughter"
The Crosswicks miracle
Epilogue: The covenant.