Transcriber's Note

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Archaic and dialect spellings have been retained. Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, taf??.

A table of contents, though not present in the original publication, has been provided below:

• MEMOIR
• TO MY MOTHER
• PREFACE
• BOOK I—THE WEDDING RING
  • The Vault
  • The Skeleton Hand
  • The Park
  • The Hall
  • Sir Reginald Rookwood
  • Sir Piers Rookwood
  • The Return
  • An Irish Adventurer
  • An English Adventurer
  • Ranulph Rookwood
  • Lady Rookwood
  • The Chamber of Death
  • The Brothers
• BOOK II—THE SEXTON
  • The Storm
  • The Funeral Oration
  • The Churchyard
  • The Funeral
  • The Captive
  • The Apparition
• BOOK III—THE GIPSY
  • A Morning Ride
  • A Gipsy Encampment
  • Sybil
  • Barbara Lovel
  • The Inauguration
  • Eleanor Mowbray
  • Mrs. Mowbray
  • The Parting
  • The Philter
  • Saint Cyprian's Cell
  • The Bridal
  • Alan Rookwood
  • Mr. Coates
  • Dick Turpin
• BOOK IV—THE RIDE TO YORK
  • The Rendezvous at Kilburn
  • Tom King
  • A Surprise
  • The Hue and Cry
  • The Short Pipe
  • Black Bess
  • The York Stage
  • Roadside Inn
  • Excitement
  • The Gibbet
  • The Phantom Steed
  • Cawood Ferry
• BOOK V—THE OATH
  • The Hut on Thorne Waste
  • Major Mowbray
  • Handassah
  • The Dower of Sybil
  • The Sarcophagus
• L'ENVOY
• NOTES