Cover
Also Edited by Otto Penzler
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction by Otto Penzler
THE VICTORIANS
At the Edge of the Crater
L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace
The Episode of the Mexican Seer
Grant Allen
The Body Snatcher
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula’s Guest
Bram Stoker
The Narrative of Mr. James Rigby
Arthur Morrison
The Ides of March
E. W. Hornung
NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICANS
The Story of a Young Robber
Washington Irving
Moon-Face
Jack London
The Shadow of Quong Lung
C. W. Doyle
THE EDWARDIANS
The Fire of London
Arnold Bennett
Madame Sara
The Affair of the Man Who Called Himself Hamilton Cleek
Thomas W. Hanshew
The Mysterious Railway Passenger
Maurice Leblanc
An Unposted Letter
Newton MacTavish
The Adventure of “The Brain”
Bertram Atkey
The Kailyard Novel
Clifford Ashdown
The Parole of Gevil-Hay
K. & Hesketh Prichard
The Hammerpond Park Burglary
H. G. Wells
The Zayat Kiss
Sax Rohmer
EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICANS
The Infallible Godahl
Frederick Irving Anderson
The Caballero’s Way
O. Henry
Conscience in Art
The Unpublishable Memoirs
A. S. W. Rosenbach
The Universal Covered Carpet Tack Company
George Randolph Chester
Boston Blackie’s Code
Jack Boyle
The Gray Seal
Frank L. Packard
The Dignity of Honest Labor
Percival Pollard
The Eyes of the Countess Gerda
May Edginton
The Willow Walk
Sinclair Lewis
A Retrieved Reformation
BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
The Burglar
John Russell
Portrait of a Murderer
Q. Patrick
Karmesin and the Big Flea
Gerald Kersh
The Very Raffles-Like Episode of Castor and Pollux, Diamonds De Luxe
Harry Stephen Keeler
The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
Four Square Jane
Edgar Wallace
A Fortune in Tin
The Genuine Old Master
David Durham
The Colonel Gives a Party
Everett Rhodes Castle
Footsteps of Fear
Vincent Starrett
The Signed Masterpiece
The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
Thomas Burke
“His Lady” to the Rescue
Bruce Graeme
On Getting an Introduction
The Fifteen Murderers
Ben Hecht
The Damsel in Distress
Leslie Charteris
THE PULP ERA
After-Dinner Story
William Irish
The Mystery of the Golden Skull
Donald E. Keyhoe
We Are All Dead
Bruno Fischer
Horror Insured
Paul Ernst
A Shock for the Countess
C. S. Montanye
A Shabby Millionaire
Christopher B. Booth
Crimson Shackles
Frederick C. Davis
The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon
Eugene Thomas
The Copper Bowl
George Fielding Eliot
POST–WORLD WAR II
The Cat-Woman
Erle Stanley Gardner
The Kid Stacks a Deck
The Theft from the Empty Room
Edward D. Hoch
The Shill
Stephen Marlowe
The Dr. Sherrock Commission
Frank McAuliffe
In Round Figures
The Racket Buster
Sweet Music
Robert L. Fish
THE MODERNS
The Ehrengraf Experience
Lawrence Block
Quarry’s Luck
Max Allan Collins
The Partnership
David Morrell
Blackburn Sins
Bradley Denton
The Black Spot
Loren D. Estleman
Car Trouble
Jas. R. Petrin
Keller on the Spot
Boudin Noir
R. T. Lawton
Like a Thief in the Night
Too Many Crooks
Donald E. Westlake
Permissions Acknowledgments