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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF WORLD’S GREATEST MYSTERIES – 60+ Detective Stories, Whodunit Tales, Suspense, Occult & Supernatural Stories in One Premium Volume (Mystery & Crime Series)

Table of Contents

Detective Stories

The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe) A Scandal in Bohemia (A. Conan Doyle)

I II III

The Biter Bit (Wilkie Collins) The Safety Match (Anton Chekhov) The Black Hand (Arthur B. Reeve) Missing: Page Thirteen (Anna Katherine Green)

I II III IV V VI VII

Some Scotland Yard Cases (Sir Robert Anderson) The Rope of Fear (Thomas W. Hanshew and Mary E. Hanshew)

Suspense Stories

The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Oblong Box (Edgar Allan Poe) A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins) The Torture by Hope (Villiers de l'Isle Adam) The Mysterious Card (Cleveland Moffett) The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat) My Fascinating Friend (William Archer)

I II III IV

The Lost Room (Fitz-James O'Brien) The Great Valdez Sapphire (Anonymous)

Ghost Stories

Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Horla (Guy de Maupassant) To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger) The Beast with Five Fingers (William F. Harvey)

I II III IV

Number 13 (Montague Rhodes James) Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford) Sister Maddelena (Ralph Adams Cram) The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson) The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling) The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe)

THE PREFACE A RELATION OF THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL TO THE READER

Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book (M. R. James) The Haunted and the Haunters (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton) The Silent Woman (Leopold Kompert) The Rival Ghosts (Brander Matthews) The Damned Thing (Ambrose Bierce)

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

The Interval (Vincent O'Sullivan) Dey Ain't No Ghosts (Ellis Parker Butler) The Banshees of Ireland Some Real American Ghosts

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

The Deserted House (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Withered Arm (Thomas Hardy)

A Lorn Milkmaid The Young Wife A Vision A Suggestion Conjuror Trendle A Second Attempt A Ride A Water-Side Hermit A Re-encounter

The House and the Brain (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton) The Roll-Call of the Reef (A. T. Quiller-Couch) The Open Door (Mrs. Margaret Oliphant) The Mysterious Sketch (Erckmann-Chatrian)

I II III

Green Branches (Fiona Macleod) The Four-Fifteen Express (Amelia B. Edwards) The Were-Wolf (H. B. Marryatt) Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier) The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (M. R. James) What Was It?

Paranormal Psychic Stories

When the World Was Young (Jack London)

I II III

Joseph—A Story (Katherine Rickford) Ligeia A Ghost (Lafcadio Hearn)

I II III IV

The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce)

I ONE DOES NOT ALWAYS MARRY WHEN INSANE II A ROOM MAY BE TOO NARROW FOR THREE, THOUGH ONE IS OUTSIDE III THE THEORY OF THE DEFENSE IV AN APPEAL TO THE CONSCIENCE OF GOD

Photographing Invisible Beings (William T. Stead) The Sin-Eater (Fiona Macleod) Ghosts in Solid Form (Gambier Bolton)

CHAPTER I

Working Hypothesis Conditions Precautions Against Fraud The Vapor Stage The Solid, but Shapeless Stage

CHAPTER II

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) A Witch's Den (Helena Blavatsky) Some Remarkable Experiences of Famous Persons (Walter F. Prince)

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

Humorous Mystery Stories

The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange (A. Conan Doyle) Mr. Bloke's Item (Mark Twain) The Man Who Went Too Far (E. F. Benson) The Man with the Pale Eyes (Guy de Maupassant) The Mummy's Foot (Théopile Gautier) The Diamond Lens (Fitz-James O'Brien)

I THE BENDING OF THE TWIG II THE LONGING OF A MAN OF SCIENCE III THE SPIRIT OF LEEUWENHOEK

A Ghost (Lafcadio Hearn)

I II III IV

Chan Tow The Highrob (Chester Bailey Fernando) The Rival Ghosts (Brander Matthews)

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