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Index
Title Page
Contents
Supernatural & Mystery Thrillers:
Contents
Edgar Allan Poe
Contents
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Cask of Amontillado
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Masque of the Red Death
The Black Cat
The Oblong Box
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Purloined Letter
Berenice
Morella
King Pest
Shadow
Silence
Ligeia
William Wilson
The Man of the Crowd
The Oval Portrait
The Premature Burial
The Imp of the Perverse
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Hop-Frog
Henry James
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The Turn of the Screw
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
Owen Wingrave
The Real Right Thing
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Jolly Corner
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Sir Edmund Orme
The Ghostly Rental
The Way It Came
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
The Third Person
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Algernon Blackwood
Contents
The Willows
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Wendigo
The Damned
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
The Kit-Bag
The Glamour of the Snow
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
The Empty House
A Haunted Island
A Case of Eavesdropping
Keeping His Promise
With Intent to Steal
The Wood of the Dead
Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House
A Suspicious Gift
The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp
A Psychical Invasion
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Ancient Sorceries
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
The Nemesis of Fire
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Secret Worship
The Camp of the Dog
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
A Victim of Higher Space
H.P Lovecraft
Contents
Herbert West-Reanimator
Contents
I. From the Dark
II. The Plague-Daemon
III. Six Shots by Midnight
IV. The Scream of the Dead
V. The Horror from the Shadows
VI. The Tomb-Legions
The Dunwich Horror
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
The Shunned House
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Dagon
The Picture in the House
The Outsider
The Music of Erich Zann
From Beyond
M. R. James
Contents
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Contents
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book
Lost Hearts
The Mezzotint
The Ash-Tree
Number 13
Count Magnus
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2
Contents
A School Story
The Rose Garden
The Tractate Middoth
Casting the Runes
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
Martin's Close
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance
A Thin Ghost and Others
Contents
The Residence at Whitminster
The Diary of Mr. Poynter
An Episode of Cathedral History
The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance
Two Doctors
Wilkie Collins
Contents
The Haunted Hotel
Contents
Part I
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Part II
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part III
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Part IV
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
The Dead Secret
Contents
Preface
Part I
Contents
1. The Twenty-Third Of August, 1829
2. The Child
3. The Hiding Of The Secret
Part II
Contents
1. Fifteen Years After
2. The Sale Of Porthgenna Tower
3. The Bride And Bridegroom
Part III
Contents
1. Timon Of London
2. Will They Come?
3. Mrs. Jazeph
4. The New Nurse
5. A Council Of Three
6. Another Surprise
Part IV
Contents
1. A Plot Against The Secret
2. Outside The House
3. Inside The House
4. Mr. Munder On The Seat Of Judgment
5. Mozart Plays Farewell
Part V
Contents
1. An Old Friend And A New Scheme
2. The Beginning Of The End
3. Approaching The Precipice
4. Standing On The Brink
5. The Myrtle Room
6. The Telling Of The Secret
Part VI
Contents
1. Uncle Joseph
2. Waiting And Hoping
3. The Story Of The Past
4. The Close Of Day
5. Forty Thousand Pounds
6. The Dawn Of A New Life
The Devil's Spectacles
Contents
I. Memoirs of an Arctic Voyager
II. Memoirs of Myself
III. The Test of the Spectacles
IV. The Test of Long Fallas
V. The Truth in the Shrubbery
VI. The End of the Spectacles
VII. Between the Reader and the Editor
A Terribly Strange Bed
Mrs Zant and the Ghost
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
The Last Stage Coachman
E. F. Benson
Contents
The Room in the Tower
The Man Who Went Too Far
Caterpillars
The Thing in the Hall
The Dust-Cloud
The Confession of Charles Linkworth
At Abdul Ali’s Grave
The Shootings of Achnaleish
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
The Cat
The Bus-Conductor
Between the Lights
Outside the Door
The Other Bed
The House with the Brick-Kiln
The Terror by Night
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Contents
Rappaccini's Daughter
The Birth Mark
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The Minister's Black Veil
Young Goodman Brown
Ambrose Bierce
Contents
The Death of Halpin Frayser
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
One Summer Night
The Moonlit Road
Contents
I. Statement Of Joel Hetman, Jr
II. Statement Of Caspar Grattan
III. Statement Of The Late Julia Hetman, Through The Medium Bayrolles
A Diagnosis of Death
Moxon’s Master
A Tough Tussle
One of Twins
The Haunted Valley
Contents
I. How Trees Are Felled In China
II. Who Drives Sane Oxen Should Himself Be Sane
A Jug of Sirup
Staley Fleming’s Hallucination
Hazen’s Brigade
A Baby Tramp
The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s”
Beyond the Wall
A Psychological Shipwreck
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
John Mortonson’s Funeral 1
The Damned Thing
Contents
I. One Does Not Always Eat What Is On The Table
II. What May Happen In A Field Of Wild Oats
III. A Man Though Naked May Be In Rags
IV. An Explanation From The Tomb
John Bartine’s Watch
The Ways of Ghosts
Present at a Hanging
Soldier-Folk:
Three and One Are One
A Baffled Ambuscade
Two Military Executions
Some Haunted Houses
A Fruitless Assignment
A Vine on a House
At Old Man Eckert’s
The Thing at Nolan
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
Charles Ashmore’s Trail
Science to the Front
Present at a Hanging
A Cold Greeting
A Wireless Message
An Arrest
The Spook House
The Other Lodgers
An Unfinished Race
Arthur Machen
Contents
The Great God Pan
Contents
1. The Experiment
2. Mr. Clarke’s Memoirs
3. The City of Resurrections
4. The Discovery in Paul Street
5. The Letter of Advice
6. The Suicides
7. The Encounter in Soho
8. The Fragments
The Three Impostors
Contents
Prologue
Adventure of the Gold Tiberius
The Encounter of the Pavement
Novel of the Dark Valley
Adventure of the Missing Brother
Novel of the Black Seal
Incident of the Private Bar
The Decorative Imagination
Novel of the Iron Maid
The Recluse of Bayswater
Novel of the White Powder
Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell
History of the Young Man with Spectacles
Adventure of the Deserted Residence
The Hill of Dreams
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
The Terror
Contents
1. The Coming of the Terror
2. Death in the Village
3. The Doctors Theory
4. The Spread of the Terror
5. The Incident of the Unknown Tree
6. Mr. Remnant's Z Ray
7. The Case of the Hidden Germans
8. What Mr. Merritt Found
9. The Light on the Water
10. The Child and the Moth
11. At Treff Loyne Farm
12. The Letter of Wrath
13. The Last Words of Mr. Secretan
14. The End of the Terror
The Secret Glory
Contents
Preface
Part I
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Part II
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part III
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Part IV
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Epilogue
The White People
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Epilogue
The Inmost Light
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
The Shining Pyramid
Contents
1. The Arrow-Head Character
2. The Eyes on the Wall
3. The Search for the Bowl
4. The Secret of the Pyramid
5. The Little People
The Red Hand
Contents
1. Incident of the Letter
2. Search for the Vanished Heaven
3. The Artist of the Pavement
4. Story of the Treasure-house
The Great Return
Contents
1. The Rumour of the Marvellous
2. Odours of Paradise
3. A Secret in a Secret Place
4. The Ringing of the Bell
5. The Rose of Fire
6. Olwen’s Dream
7. The Mass of The Sangraal
The Happy Children
Out of the Earth
William Hope Hodgson
Contents
The House on the Borderland
Contents
Author’s Introduction to the Manuscript
1. The Finding of the Manuscript
2. The Plain of Silence
3. The House in the Arena
4. The Earth
5. The Thing in the Pit
6. The Swine-Things
7. The Attack
8. After the Attack
9. In the Cellars
10. The Time of Waiting
11. The Searching of the Gardens
12. The Subterranean Pit
13. The Trap in the Great Cellar
14. The Sea of Sleep
15. The Noise in the Night
16. The Awakening
17. The Slowing Rotation
18. The Green Star
19. The End of the Solar System
20. The Celestial Globes
21. The Dark Sun
22. The Dark Nebula
23. Pepper
24. The Footsteps in the Garden
25. The Thing From the Arena
26. The Luminous Speck
27. Conclusion
Grief
The Night Land
Contents
The Dreams that are only Dreams
1. Mirdath the Beautiful
2. The Last Redoubt
3. The Quiet Calling
4. The Hushing of the Voice
5. Into the Night Land
6. The Way That I Did Go
7. The Night Land
8. Down the Mighty Slope
9. The Dark Pyramid
10. The Maid of the Olden Days
11. The Homeward Way
12. Downward of the Gorge
13. Homeward by the Shore
14. On the Island
15. Past the House of Silence
16. In the Country of Silence
17. The Love Days
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder Stories
Contents
1. The Gateway of the Monster
2. The House among the Laurels
3. The Whistling Room
4. The Searcher of the End House
5. The Thing Invisible
The Boats of the Glen Carrig
Contents
1. The Land of Lonesomeness
2. The Ship in the Creek
3. The Thing That Made Search
4. The Two Faces
5. The Great Storm
6. The Weed-Choked Sea
7. The Island in the Weed
8. The Noises in the Valley
9. What Happened in the Dusk
10. The Light in the Weed
11. The Signals From the Ship
12. The Making of the Great Bow
13. The Weed Men
14. In Communication
15. Aboard the Hulk
16. Freed
17. How We Came to Our Own Country
The Ghost Pirates
Contents
To Mary Whalley
Preface
The Hell O! O! Chaunty
1. The Figure Out of the Sea
2. What Tammy the ’Prentice Saw
3. The Man Up the Main
4. The Fooling with the Sail
5. The End of Williams
6. Another Man to the Wheel
7. The Coming of the Mist, and that which it Ushered
8. After the Coming of the Mist
9. The Man Who Cried for Help
10. Hands that Plucked
11. The Search for Stubbins
12. The Council
13. The Shadow in the Sea
14. The Ghost Ships
15. The Great Ghost Ship
16. The Ghost Pirates
Appendix
The Night Land
Contents
The Dreams that are only Dreams
1. Mirdath the Beautiful
2. The Last Redoubt
3. The Quiet Calling
4. The Hushing of the Voice
5. Into the Night Land
6. The Way That I Did Go
7. The Night Land
8. Down the Mighty Slope
9. The Dark Pyramid
10. The Maid of the Olden Days
11. The Homeward Way
12. Downward of the Gorge
13. Homeward by the Shore
14. On the Island
15. Past the House of Silence
16. In the Country of Silence
17. The Love Days
The Derelict
The Voice in the Night
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder Stories
Contents
The Gateway of the Monster
The House among the Laurels
The Whistling Room
The Searcher of the End House
The Thing Invisible
M. P. Shiel
Contents
Shapes in the Fire
Contents
1. Vaila, or the House of Sounds
2. Maria in the Rose-bush
3. Xélucha
4. Tulsah
5. The Serpent-ship
6. Phorfor
Arthur Conan Doyle
Contents
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Contents
I. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
II. The Curse of the Baskervilles
III. The Problem
IV. Sir Henry Baskerville
V. Three Broken Threads
VI. Baskerville Hall
VII. The Stapletons of Merripit House
VIII. First Report of Dr. Watson
IX. The Light Upon the Moor
X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
XI. The Man on the Tor
XII. Death on the Moor
XIII. Fixing The Nets
XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
XV. A Retrospection
The Silver Hatchet
The Leather Funnel
The Beetle Hunter
The Man with the Watches
The Pot of Caviare
The Japanned Box
The Black Doctor
Playing with Fire
The Jew’s Breastplate
The Lost Special
The Club-footed Grocer
The Sealed Room
The Brazilian Cat
The Usher of Lea House School
The Brown Hand
The Fiend of the Cooperage
Jelland’s Voyage
B. 24
Ralph Adams Cram
Contents
Black Spirits and White
Contents
No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince
In Kropfsberg Keep
The White Villa
Sister Maddelena
Notre Dame Des Eaux
The Dead Valley
Postscript
Grant Allen
Contents
The Reverend John Creedy
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Dr. Greatrex's Engagement
Mr. Chung
The Curate of Churnside
An Episode in High Life
The Foundering of the "Fortuna"
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
The Backslider
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
The Mysterious Occurrence in Piccadilly
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Carvalho
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Pausodyne
The Empress of Andorra
The Senior Proctor's Wooing
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
The Child of the Phalanstery
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Our Scientific Observations on a Ghost
Chemical Analysis of an Apparition
Ram Das of Cawnpore
The Essential Gothics
Contents
Horace Walpole
Contents
The Castle of Otranto
Contents
Preface To The First Edition
Preface To The Second Edition
Sonnet
1. Table of Contents
2. Table of Contents
3. Table of Contents
4. Table of Contents
5. Table of Contents
William Thomas Beckford
Contents
Vathek
Contents
About the Author
Vathek
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Notes
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Contents
The Monk
Contents
Preface
Advertisement
Volume I
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Volume II
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Volume III
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Ann Radcliffe
Contents
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Contents
Volume I
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Volume II
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Volume III
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Volume IV
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
The Italian
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Jane Austen
Contents
Northanger Abbey
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Charlotte Brontë
Contents
Jane Eyre
Contents
Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Emily Brontë
Contents
Wuthering Heights
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Contents
The House of the Seven Gables
Contents
Introductory Note
Preface
I. The Old Pyncheon Family
II. The Little Shop-Window
III. The First Customer
IV. A Day Behind the Counter
V. May and November
VI. Maule’s Well
VII. The Guest
VIII. The Pyncheon of To-day
IX. Clifford and Phoebe
X. The Pyncheon Garden
XI. The Arched Window
XII. The Daguerreotypist
XIII. Alice Pyncheon
XIV. Phoebe’s Good-Bye
XV. The Scowl and Smile
XVI. Clifford’s Chamber
XVII. The Flight of Two Owls
XVIII. Governor Pyncheon
XIX. Alice’s Posies
XX. The Flower of Eden
XXI. The Departure
Wilkie Collins
Contents
The Woman in White
Contents
Part I
Contents
1. The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, of Clement’s Inn, Teacher of Drawing
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
2. The Story Continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
3. The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe, in Extracts from her Diary
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Part II
Contents
1. The Story Continued by Marian Halcombe
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
2. Postscript by a Sincere Friend
3. The Story Continued by Frederick Fairlie, Esq., of Limmeridge House
4. The Story Continued by Eliza Michelson, Housekeeper at Blackwater Park
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
5. The Story Continued in Several Narratives
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part III
Contents
1. The Story Continued by Walter Hartright
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
2. The Story Continued by Mrs. Catherick
3. The Story Continued by Walter Hartright
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
4. The Story Continued by Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco
5. The Story Concluded by Walter Hartright
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Charles Dickens
Contents
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Contents
1. The Dawn
2. A Dean, and a Chapter Also
3. The Nuns’ House
4. Mr. Sapsea
5. Mr. Durdles and Friend
6. Philanthropy in Minor Canon Corner
7. More Confidences than One
8. Daggers Drawn
9. Birds in the Bush
10. Smoothing the Way
11. A Picture and a Ring
12. A Night with Durdles
13. Both at Their Best
14. When Shall These Three Meet Again?
15. Impeached
16. Devoted
17. Philanthropy, Professional and Unprofessional
18. A Settler in Cloisterham
19. Shadow on the Sun-dial
20. A Flight
21. A Recognition
22. A Gritty State of Things Comes on
23. The Dawn Again
Appendix:
Oscar Wilde
Contents
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Gaston Leroux
Contents
The Phantom of the Opera
Contents
Prologue
1. Is it the Ghost?
2. The New Margarita
3. The Mysterious Reason
4. Box Five
5. The Enchanted Violin
6. A Visit to Box Five
7. Faust and What Followed
8. The Mysterious Brougham
9. At the Masked Ball
10. Forget the Name of the Man's Voice
11. Above the Trap-Doors
12. Apollo's Lyre
13. A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover
14. The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin
15. Christine! Christine!
16. Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelations as to Her Personal Relations with the Opera Ghost
17. The Safety-Pin Again
18. The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian
19. The Viscount and the Persian
20. In the Cellars of the Opera
21. Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudes of a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera
22. In the Torture Chamber
23. The Tortures Begin
24. "Barrels! ... Barrels! ... Any Barrels to Sell?"
25. The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?
26. The End of the Ghost's Love Story
Epilogue
Marjorie Bowen
Contents
Black Magic
Contents
The Nun
Contents
1. Sunshine
2. The Students
3. The Experiment
4. The Departure
5. Comrades
6. The Lady
7. Spells
8. The Castle
9. Sebastian
10. The Saint
11. The Witch
12. Ysabeau
13. The Snaring of Jacobea
14. The Snaring of Theirry
15. Melchoir of Brabant
16. The Quarrel
17. The Murder
18. The Pursuit of Jacobea
19. Sybilla
20. Hugh of Rooselaare
21. Betrayed
22. Blaise
The Pope
Contents
1. Cardinal Luigi Caprarola
2. The Confession
3. The Empress
4. The Dancer in Orange
5. The Pope
6. San Giovanni in Laterano
7. The Vengeance of Michael ii
8. Ursula of Rooselaare
9. Pope and Empress
10. The Evening Before the Coronation
11. The Angels
12. In the Vatican
13. The Secret
Ghosts, Monsters & Creatures
Contents
Mary Shelley
Contents
Frankenstein
Contents
Letter 1
Letter 2
Letter 3
Letter 4
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Walton, In Continuation
Chapter 25
The Mortal Immortal
The Heir of Mondolfo
The Invisible Girl
The Dream
The Evil Eye
John William Polidori
Contents
The Vampyre
Contents
Extract Of A Letter
Introduction
The Vampyre
Extract Of A Letter, Containing
Bram Stoker
Contents
Dracula
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
The Judge's House
The Squaw
The Secret of the Growing Gold
A Gipsy Prophecy
The Coming of Abel Behenna
The Burial of the Rats
A Dream of Red Hands
Crooken Sands
Théophile Gautier
Contents
Clarimonde
The Mummy's Foot
Richard Marsh
Contents
The Beetle
Contents
Part I
Contents
1. Outside
2. Inside
3. The Man In The Bed
4. A Lonely Vigil
5. An Instruction To Commit Burglary
6. A Singular Felony
7. The Great Paul Lessingham
8. The Man In The Street
9. The Contents Of The Packet
Part II
Contents
1. Rejected
2. A Midnight Episode
3. A Morning Visitor
4. The Picture
5. The Duchess' Ball
6. Mr Lessingham Speaks
7. Atherton's Magic Vapour
8. Magic? — Or Miracle?
9. The Apotheosis Of The Beetle
10. The Lady Rages
11. A Heavy Father
12. The Terror In The Night
13. The Haunted Man
Part III
Contents
1. The Way He Told Her
2. A Woman's View
3. The Man In The Street
4. A Father's No
5. The Terror By Night
6. The Strange Story Of The Man In The Street
7. The House On The Road From The Workhouse
8. The Singular Behaviour Of Mr Holt
9. The Terror By Day
Part IV
Contents
1. A New Client
2. What Came Of Looking Through A Lattice
3. After Twenty Years
4. A Bringer Of Tidings
5. What The Tidings Were
6. What Was Hidden Under The Floor
7. The Rest Of The Find
8. Miss Louisa Coleman
9. What Miss Coleman Saw Through The Window
10. The Constable, — His Clue, — And The Cab
11. The Quarry Doubles
12. The Murder At Mrs 'enderson's
13. The Man Who Was Murdered
14. All That Mrs 'Enderson Knew
15. The Sudden Stopping
16. The Contents Of The Third-Class Carriage
17. The Conclusion Of The Matter
Guy Boothby
Contents
Pharos, the Egyptian
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Contents
Carmilla
Contents
1. An Early Fright
2. A Guest
3. We Compare Notes
4. Her Habits; A Saunter
5. A Wonderful Likeness
6. A Very Strange Agony
7. Descending
8. Search
9. The Doctor
10. Bereaved
11. The Story
12. A Petition
13. The Woodman
14. The Meeting
15. Ordeal and Execution
16. Conclusion
Uncle Silas
Contents
1. Austin Ruthyn, of Knowl, and His Daughter
2. Uncle Silas
3. A New Face
4. Madame De La Rougierre
5. Sights and Noises
6. A Walk in the Wood
7. Church Scarsdale
8. The Smoker
9. Monica Knollys
10. Lady Knollys Removes a Coverlet
11. Lady Knollys Sees the Features
12. A Curious Conversation
13. Before and After Breakfast
14. Angry Words
15. A Warning
16. Doctor Bryerly Looks in
17. An Adventure
18. A Midnight Visitor
19. Au Revoir
20. Austin Ruthyn Sets Out on His Journey
21. Arrivals
22. Somebody in the Room with the Coffin
23. I Talk with Doctor Bryerly
24. The Opening of the Will
25. I Hear from Uncle Silas
26. The Story of Uncle Silas
27. More About Tom Clarke’s Suicide
28. I Am Persuaded
29. How the Ambassador Fared
30. On the Road
31. Bartram-Haugh
32. Uncle Silas
33. The Windmill Wood
34. Zamiel
35. We Visit a Room in the Second Storey
36. An Arrival at Dead of Night
37. Doctor Bryerly Emerges
38. A Midnight Departure
39. Cousin Monica and Uncle Silas Meet
40. In which I Make Another Cousin’s Acquaintance
41. My Cousin Dudley
42. Elverston and its People
43. News at Bartram Gate
44. A Friend Arises
45. A Chapter-Full of Lovers
46. The Rivals
47. Doctor Bryerly Reappears
48. Question and Answer
49. An Apparition
50. Milly’s Farewell
51. Sarah Matilda Comes to Light
52. The Picture of a Wolf
53. An Odd Proposal
54. In Search of Mr. Clarke’s Skeleton
55. The Foot of Hercules
56. I Conspire
57. The Letter
58. Lady Knollys’ Carriage
59. A Sudden Departure
60. The Journey
61. Our Bed-Chamber
62. A Well-Known Face Looks in
63. Spiced Claret
64. The Hour of Death
65. In the Oak Parlour
Afterword
The Wyvern Mystery
Contents
Volume I
Contents
1. Alice Maybell
2. The Vale Of Carwell
3. The Grange
4. The Old Squire and Alice Maybell
5. The Terrace Garden
6. The Old Squire Unlike Himself
7. The Squire's Eldest Son Comes Home
8. Never Did Run Smooth
9. In Which the Squire Loses His Gold-Headed Cane
10. The Drive Over Cressley Common by Moonlight
11. Home
12. The Omen of Carwell Grange
13. An Inspection of Carwell Grange
14. A Letter
15. Harry Arrives
16. A Party of Three
17. Mildred Tarnley's Warning Story
18. The Brothers' Walk
19. Coming In
20. Harry Appears at the Grange
21. Harry's Beer And Conversation
22. The Trout
23. The Visitor
Volume II
Contents
1. The Summons
2. Lilly Dogger is Sent to Bed
3. The Lady Has Her Tea
4. Through the House
5. The Bell Rings
6. Tom is Ordered up
7. The Old Soldier Grows More Friendly, and Frightens Mrs. Tarnley
8. News From Cressley Common
9. An Unlooked-For Return
10. Charles Fairfield Alone
11. Awake
12. Restless
13. Through The Wall
14. A Messenger
15. Unreasonable Bertha
16. An Abduction
17. Pursuit
18. Day--Twilight--Darkness
19. Hatherton
20. The Welcome
21. The Wykeford Doctor
Volume III
Contents
1. Speech Returns
2. Harry Drinks a Glass and Spills a Glass
3. Home To Wyvern
4. A Twilight Visit
5. The Heir of the Fairfields
6. Bertha Velderkaust
7. Sergeant-Major Archdale
8. A Talk With the Squire
9. Harry Fairfield Grows Uneasy
10. A Drive to Twyford
11. How Fares the Child?
12. The Old Squire Leaves Wyvern
13. Marjory Trevellian
14. The Enchanted Garden
15. An Old Friend
16. Tom Orange
17. The Hour and the Man
18. The March to Noulton Farm
19. A Silent Farewell
20. The March by Night
Afterword
The Dead Sexton
Green Tea
Contents
Prologue
1. Dr. Hesselius Relates How He Met the Rev. Mr. Jennings
2. The Doctor Questions Lady Mary and She Answers
3. Dr. Hesselius Picks Up Something in Latin Books
4. Four Eyes Were Reading the Passage
5. Dr. Hesselius is Summoned to Richmond
6. How Mr. Jennings Met His Companion
7. The Journey: First Stage
8. The Second Stage
9. The Third Stage
10. Home
Afterword
The Familiar
Contents
Prologue
1. Footsteps
2. The Watcher
3. An Advertisement
4. He Talks with a Clergyman
5. Mr
6. Seen Again
7. Flight
8. Softened
9. Requiescat
Afterword
Mr Justice Harbottle
Contents
Prologue
1. The Judge’s House
2. Mr. Peters
3. Lewis Pyneweck
4. Interruption in Court
5. Caleb Searcher
6. Arrested
7. Chief–Justice Twofold
8. Somebody Has Got Into the House
9. The Judge Leaves His House
The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
The Drunkard's Dream
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family
The Haunted Baronet
Contents
1. The George and Dragon
2. The Drowned Woman
3. Philip Feltram
4. The Baronet Appears
5. Mrs. Julaper's Room
6. The Intruder
7. The Bank Note
8. Feltram's Plan
9. The Crazy Parson
10. Adventure in Tom Marlin's Boat
11. Sir Bale's Dream
12. Marcella Bligh and Judith Wale Keep Watch
13. The Mist on the Mountain
14. A New Philip Feltram
15. The Purse of Gold
16. The Message from Cloostedd
17. On the Course—Beeswing, Falcon, and Lightning
18. On the Lake, at Last
19. Mystagogus
20. The Haunted Forest
21. Rindermere
22. Sir Bale is Frightened
23. A Lady in Black
24. An Old Portrait
25. Through the Wall
26. Perplexed
27. The Hour
28. Sir Bale in the Gallery
29. Dr. Torvey's Opinion
30. Hush!
Madam Crowl's Ghost
Squire Toby's Will
Dickon the Devil
The Child That Went with the Fairies
The White Cat of Drumgunniol
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances
Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling
Contents
1. Peg O’Neill Pays the Captain’s Debts
2. The Blessed Candle
3. My Uncle Watson Visits Wauling
4. In the Parlour
5. The Bed–Chamber
6. The Extinguisher Is Lifted
7. The Visitation Culminates
Afterword
Sir Dominick's Bargain
Ultor de Lacy
Contents
1. The Jacobite’s Legacy
2. The Fairies in the Castle
3. The Priest’s Adventures in the Glen
4. The Light in the Bell Tower
5. The Man with the Claret Mark
6. Voices
7. Una’s Love
8. Sister Agnes and the Portrait
The Vision of Tom Chuff
Stories of Lough Guir
The Magician Earl
Moll Rial’s Adventure
The Banshee
The Governess’s Dream
The Earl’s Hall
The Evil Guest
Laura Silver Bell
The Murdered Cousin
The Mysterious Lodger
Contents
Part I
Untitled
Part II
Untitled
An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
A Debt of Honor
Haunted
Pichon and Sons, of the Croix Rousse
The Spirit's Whisper
What Was It?
George W. M. Reynolds
Contents
Prologue
Part I
Contents
1. The Death-Bed—The Oath—The Last Injunctions
2. Nisida—The Mysterious Closet
3. The Manuscript—Flora Francatelli
4. The Funeral—The Interruption Of The Ceremony
5. The Reading Of The Will
6. The Pictures—Agnes And The Unknown—Mystery
7. Revelations
8. The History Of Agnes
9. Conclusion Of The History Of Agnes
10. Francisco, Wagner And Nisida
11. Nisida And Wagner—Francisco And Flora—The Approach Of Sunset
12. The Wehr-Wolf
13. Nisida’s Emotions—The Disguise—The Plot
14. The Last Meeting Of Agnes And The Stranger Lady
15. The Sbirri—The Arrest
16. Nisida And The Carmelite Abbess
17. Wagner In Prison—A Visitor
18. Flora Francatelli—The Three Nuns—The Chair
19. The Descent—The Chamber Of Penitence
20. Francisco And Nisida—Dr. Duras And The Letter
21. The Suburb Of Alla Croce—The Jew—The Robber Chief’s Love
22. The Countess Of Arestino
23. The Love Of Woman—Giulia And Her Lover
24. The Injured Husband—The Guilty Wife—And The Insolent Lover
25. The Marquis Of Orsini
26. A Combat—The Despised And Persecuted Israelite
27. Stephano And The Marquis—The Stronghold Of The Banditti
28. A Fearful Accusation
29. The Visit Of The Banditti To The Riverola Palace
30. Flora’s Captivity—A Companion—The Living Tomb
31. The Banditti
32. The Mystery Of The Chair—The Catastrophe
33. Lomellino’s Escape—Stephano’s Intentions
34. The Abduction
35. Wagner And The Tempter—Phantasmagoria
36. The Trial Of Fernand Wagner
37. The Shipwreck
38. The Island In The Mediterranean Sea
39. The Wehr-Wolf
40. Wagner In Search Of Nisida
41. The Island Queen
42. The Temptation—The Anaconda
43. Nisida And Wagner
Part II
Contents
1. Alessandro Francatelli
2. The Lady Of Constantinople
3. The Apostate Ibrahim
4. The Siege Of Rhodes
5. The Prisoner
6. The New Grand Vizier
7. The Count Of Arestino—The Plot Thickens
8. The Meeting
9. The Greek Page—Song Of The Greek Page—A Revelation
10. The Sultana Valida—The Three Black Slaves
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
19. The Sick-room—Florence In Dismay
20. The Manuscript
Chapter 21
Thomas Hardy
Contents
What the Shepherd Saw
Second Night
Third Night
Fourth Night
The Grave by the Handpost
The Withered Arm
Contents
1. A lorn milkmaid
2. The young wife
3. A vision
4. A suggestion
5. Conjuror Trendle
6. A second attempt
7. A ride
8. A water-side hermit
9. A rencounter
Charles Dickens
Contents
The Signal-Man
The Hanged Man’s Bride
The Two Robins
The Queer Chair; or, The Bagman's Story
The Ghosts of the Mail
The Trial for Murder
The Mothers’ Eyes
Captain Murder and the Devil’s Bargain
The Haunted House
Contents
The Mortals in the House
The Ghost in the Clock Room
The Ghost in the Double Room
The Ghost in the Picture Room
The Ghost in the Cupboard Room
The Ghost in Master B.'s Room
The Ghost in the Garden Room
The Ghost in the Corner Room
The Trial for Murder
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions
Contents
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
The Mortals in the House
To Be Read At Dusk
The Mothers’ Eyes
Nurse’s Stories
Rudyard Kipling
Contents
The Phantom Rickshaw
My Own True Ghost Story
The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
The Man Who Would Be King
"The Finest Story in the World"
The City of Dreadful Night
Contents
1. A Real Live City
2. The Reflections of a Savage
3. The Council of the Gods
4. On the Banks of the Hughli
5. With the Calcutta Police
6. The City of Dreadful Night
7. Deeper and Deeper Still
8. Concerning Lucia
Sleipner, Late Thurinda16
The Mark of the Beast
At The End of the Passage
Guy de Maupassant
Contents
The Horla
The Flayed Hand
From the Tomb
The Man with the Blue Eyes
An Uncomfortable Bed
Ghosts
Fear
Elizabeth Gaskell
Contents
The Old Nurse's Story
The Poor Clare
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Lois the Witch
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
The Grey Woman
Contents
Portion I
Portion II
Portion III
Curious, if True
Lafcadio Hearn
Contents
A Ghost
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi
Oshidori
The Story of O-Tei
Ubazakura
Diplomacy
Of a Mirror and a Bell
Jikininki
Mujina
Rokuro-Kubi
A Dead Secret
Yuki-Onna
The Story of Aoyagi
Jiu-Roku-Zakura
The Dream of Akinosuke
Riki-Baka
Hi-Mawari
Horai
The Reconciliation1
A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu2
The Screen-Maiden7
The Corpse-Rider10
The Sympathy of Benten13
The Gratitude of the Samébito21
Jerome K. Jerome
Contents
Told After Supper
Contents
Introductory
How the Stories came to be told
Teddy Biffles' Story
Interlude—The Doctor's Story
Interlude
A Personal Explanation
My Own Story
Fitz-James O'Brien
Contents
The Lost Room
The Diamond Lens
Contents
1. The Bending Of The Twig
2. The Longing Of A Man Of Science
3. The Spirit Of Leeuwenhoek
Catherine Crowe
Contents
Ghosts and Family Legends
Contents
Preface
Part I
Contents
First Evening
Second Evening
Third Evening
Fourth Evening
Fifth Evening
Sixth Evening
Seventh Evening
Eighth Evening
Appendix
Part II
Contents
The Italian's Story
The Dutch Officer's Story
The Old French Gentleman's Story
The Swiss Lady's Story
The Sheep-Farmer's Story
My Friend's Story
Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian
Contents
The Man-Wolf
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
The Mysterious Sketch
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
The Owl's Ear
The Invisible Eye
The Waters of Death
Pedro De Alarçon
Contents
The Nail
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Walter Hubbell
Contents
The Great Amherst Mystery
Contents
Introduction
1. The Home Of Esther Cox
2. The Fatal Ride
3. The Haunted House
4. The Walking Of The Ghost
5. The Author And The Ghosts
6. Conclusion
Amelia B. Edwards
Contents
Monsieur Maurice
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
The Phantom Coach
A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
The Story of Salome
In The Confessional
The Tragedy in the Palazzo Bardello
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Four-Fifteen Express
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Sister Johanna's Story
All-Saints' Eve
Contents
1. The Mountaineers
2. The Storm
3. The Parsonage
4. The Vow
5. The Supper of All-Saints' Eve
6. The Lieutenant of Police
7. The Trial
8. The Scaffold and the Confession
Washington Irving
Contents
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
The Spectre Bridegroom
John Meade Falkner
Contents
The Nebuly Coat
Contents
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty One
Chapter Twenty Two
Chapter Twenty Three
Epilogue
The Lost Stradivarius
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Mr. Gaskell's Note
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Contents
The Wind in the Rose-bush
The Shadows on the Wall
Luella Miller
The Southwest Chamber
The Vacant Lot
The Lost Ghost
Louisa M. Alcott
Contents
The Abbot's Ghost
Contents
1. Dramatis Personae
2. Byplay
3. Who Was It?
4. Feeding the Peacocks
5. Under the Mistletoe
6. Miracles
7. A Ghostly Revel
8. Jasper
Lost in the Pyramid
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Edith Nesbit
Contents
The Ebony Frame
John Charrington's Wedding
Uncle Abraham's Romance
The Mystery of the Semi-detached
From the Dead
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Man-Size in Marble
The Mass for the Dead
Mary Louisa Molesworth
Contents
The Shadow in the Moonlight
Contents
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
The Man with the Cough
Half-Way between the Stiles
At the Dip of the Road
—Will Not Take Place
The Clock That Struck Thirteen
Lady Farquhar's Old Lady
Witnessed by Two
Unexplained
Contents
Part I
Part II
The Story of the Rippling Train
Francis Marion Crawford
Contents
The Doll's Ghost
The Dead Smile
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Screaming Skull
Man Overboard!
For The Blood is the Life
The Upper Berth
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
By The Water of Paradise
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Gertrude Atherton
Contents
The Bell in the Fog
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
The Striding Place
Death and the Woman
John Kendrick Bangs
Contents
Ghosts That Have Haunted Me
The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa
The Mystery of Barney O'rourke
The Exorcism That Failed
Contents
I. A Jubilee Experience
II. An Unhappy Voyage
III. The Spirit Tries To Make Reparation
IV. The Failure
V. Postscript
The Dampmere Mystery
Carleton Barker, First and Second
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall
The Spectre Cook of Bangletop
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Speck on the Lens
A Midnight Visitor
A Quicksilver Cassandra
The Ghost Club
A Psychical Prank
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
The Literary Remains of Thomas Bragdon
Contents
Chapter 1
Constancy
Disappointment
J. K. Huysmans
Contents
Là-bas
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
John Buchan
Contents
No-Man’s-Land
Contents
I. The Shieling Of Farawa
II. Tells Of An Evening’s Talk
III. The Scarts Of The Muneraw
IV. The Darkness That Is Under The Earth
V. The Troubles Of A Conscience
VI. Summer On The Moors
VII. In Tuas Manus, Domine!
VIII. Note In Conclusion By The Editor
The Watcher by the Threshold
Space
The Keeper of Cademuir
A Journey of Little Profit
The Outgoing of the Tide
The Grove of Ashtaroth
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Wood Magic
Sabine Baring-Gould
Contents
Jean Bouchon
Pomps and Vanities
McAlister
The Leaden Ring
The Mother of Pansies
The Red-haired Girl
A Professional Secret
H.P
Glámr
Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story
The Merewigs
The "Bold Venture"
Mustapha
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Little Joe Gander
A Dead Finger
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Black Ram
A Happy Release
The 9.30 Up-train
On the Leads
Aunt Joanna
The White Flag
Sax Rohmer
Contents
Brood of the Witch Queen
Contents
Prefatory Notice
1. Antony Ferrara
2. The Phantom Hands
3. The Ring Of Thoth
4. At Ferrara's Chambers
5. The Rustling Shadows
6. The Beetles
7. Sir Elwin Groves' Patient
8. The Secret Of Dhoon
9. The Polish Jewess
10. The Laughter
11. Cairo
12. The Mask Of Set
13. The Scorpion Wind
14. Dr. Cairn Arrives
15. The Witch-Queen
16. Lair Of The Spiders
17. The Story Of Ali Mohammed
18. The Bats
19. Anthropomancy
20. The Incense
21. The Magician
22. Myra
23. The Face In The Orchid-house
24. Flowering Of The Lotus
25. Cairn Meets Ferrara
26. The Ivory Hand
27. The Thug's Cord
28. The High Priest, Hortotef
29. The Wizard's Den
30. The Elemental
31. The Book Of Thoth
H. G. Wells
Contents
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Contents
Introduction
1. In The Dinghy Of The Lady Vain
2. The Man Who Was Going Nowhere
3. The Strange Face
4. At The Schooner’s Rail
5. The Landing On The Island
6. The Evil-Looking Boatmen
7. The Locked Door
8. The Crying Of The Puma
9. The Thing In The Forest
10. The Crying Of The Man
11. The Hunting Of The Man
12. The Sayers Of The Law
13. A Parley
14. Doctor Moreau Explains
15. Concerning The Beast Folk
16. How The Beast Folk Tasted Blood
17. A Catastrophe
18. The Finding Of Moreau
19. Montgomery’s `Bank Holiday’
20. Alone With The Beast Folk
21. The Reversion Of The Beast Folk
22. The Man Alone
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Robert Louis Stevenson
Contents
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Contents
1. Story of the Door
2. Search for Mr. Hyde
3. Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease
4. The Carew Murder Case
5. Incident of the Letter
6. Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon
7. Incident at the Window
8. The Last Night
9. Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative
10. Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
The Body-Snatcher
Thrawn Janet
The Waif Woman
Wilhelm Hauff
Contents
The Severed Hand
Heart of Stone; or, The Cold Heart
Contents
Part 1
Part 2
W. W. Jacobs
Contents
The Monkey's Paw
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Robert E.Howard
Contents
De Montour
Contents
In The Forest Of Villefère
In The Forest Of Villefère
Wolfshead
Wolfshead
John Kirowan
Contents
The Black Stone
The Children Of The Night
The Dwellers Under The Tomb
The Haunter Of The Ring
Other Cthulhu Mythos Stories
Contents
The Thing On The Roof
The Challenge From Beyond
The Fire Of Asshurbanipal
Dig Me No Grave
Usurp The Night; Or, The Hoofed Thing
The House
Other Horror Stories
Contents
The Dream Snake
The Hyena
The Fearsome Touch Of Death
The Cairn On The Headland
Casonetto’s Last Song
Dermod’s Bane
The Noseless Horror
Spectres In The Dark
Other Weird Menace
Contents
Black Talons
Black Talons
The Grisly Horror
Contents
1. The Horror In The Pines
2. Black Torture
3. The Black Priest
4. The Black God’s Hunger
5. The Voice Of Zemba
Black Wind Blowing
Contents
Chapter 1. “I Take This Woman!”
Chapter 2. “Tell Them — In Pity’s Name”
Chapter 3. Dead Madness
Chapter 4. Crackling Blue Flame
Chapter 1
Black Hound of Death
Contents
I. — The Killer In The Dark
Ii.— “Dead Men With Torn Throats!”
Iii. — Black Hands
Iv. — The Hound Of Satan
Chapter 1
The Faring Town Saga
Contents
Sea Curse
Restless Waters
Out Of The Deep
Weird West
Contents
The Horror From The Mound
The Horror From The Mound
The Man On The Ground
The Man On The Ground
Old Garfield’s Heart
Old Garfield’s Heart
Black Canaan
Contents
1. Call From Canaan
2. The Stranger On Tularoosa
3. Shadows Over Canaan
4. The Dwellers In The Swamp
The Dead Remember
The Dead Remember
Pigeons From Hell
Contents
1. The Whistler In The Dark
2. The Snake’s Brother
3. The Call Of Zuvembie
Secret Of Lost Valley
Secret Of Lost Valley
The Shadow Of The Beast
The Shadow Of The Beast
Miscellaneous Tales
Contents
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe)
Contents
The Préface
A Relation Of The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal
To The Reader
When the World Was Young (Jack London)
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald)
Mr. Bloke's Item (Mark Twain)
To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger)
The Open Door (Mrs. Margaret Oliphant)
A Witch's Den (Helena Blavatsky)
The Ghost's Touch (Fergus Hume)
The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House ((Harriet Beecher Stowe)
The Torture by Hope (Villiers de l'Isle Adam)
My Fascinating Friend (William Archer)
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Great Valdez Sapphire
The Beast with Five Fingers (William F. Harvey)
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Silent Woman (Leopold Kompert)
The Interval (Vincent O'Sullivan)
Dey Ain't No Ghosts (Ellis Parker Butler)
The Roll-Call of the Reef (A. T. Quiller-Couch)
Green Branches (Fiona Macleod)
The Sin-Eater (Fiona Macleod)
Photographing Invisible Beings (William T. Stead)
Ghosts in Solid Form (Gambier Bolton)
Contents
Part I
Contents
Introduction
Working Hypothesis
Conditions
Precautions Against Fraud
The Vapor Stage
The Solid, but Shapeless Stage
Part II
Contents
Tests
Experiment No. 1
Experiment No. 2
Experiment No. 3
Experiment No. 4
The Portal of the Unknown (Andrew Jackson Davis)
Nature-Spirits, or Elementals (Nizida)
Some Remarkable Experiences of Famous Persons (Walter F. Prince)
Contents
Official Investigator American Society for Psychical Research
A Premonition of Sir H. M. Stanley
Coincident Experiences of General Frémont and Relatives
Incidents Related by Dean Hole
Incidents Reported by Serjeant Ballantine
Ben Jonson's Premonition by Apparition
Rubinstein's Death Compact
Previsionary Dream by Charles Dickens
Chan Tow The Highrob (Chester Bailey Fernando)
The Rival Ghosts (Brander Matthews)
The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip)
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton)
Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker)
The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis)
The Mass of Shadows (Anatole France)
The Haunted Orchard (Richard Le Gallienne)
Some Real American Ghosts
Contents
The Giant Ghost
Some Famous Ghosts Of The National Capitol
A Genuine Ghost
The Baggageman's Ghost
Drummers See A Specter
Dr. Funk Sees The Spirit Of Beecher
Mystery Of The Coins
Mr. Beecher Appeased
Maryland Ghosts
The Ghost Of Peg Alley's Point
An Apparition And Death
An Idiot Ghost With Brass Buttons
A Model Ghost Story
A Ghost That Will Not Down
Tom Cypher's Phantom Engine
Ghosts In Connecticut
The Spook Of Diamond Island
The Ghost's Full House
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