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Halloween Mysteries
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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)
Extracted from the Correspondence of the London Police
The Safety Match (Anton Chekhov)
I
II
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)
I
II. The Card Unveiled
The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)
I
II
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
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)
The Difference Between Elementals and Elementaries
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 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
Chan Tow The Highrob (Chester Bailey Fernando)
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Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Anton Chekhov, Arthur B. Reeve, Anna Katherine Green, Sir Robert Anderson, Thomas W. Hanshew, Mary E. Hanshew, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Cleveland Moffett, Florence Marryat, William Archer, Fitz-James O'Brien, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Pliny the Younger, William F. Harvey, M. R. James, Katherine Rickford, Ralph Adams Cram, E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling, Daniel Defoe, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Leopold Kompert, Ambrose Bierce, Vincent O'Sullivan, Ellis Parker Butler, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Thomas Hardy, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Margaret Oliphant, Erckmann-Chatrian, Fiona Macleod, Amelia B. Edwards, Frederick Marryat, Théophile Gautier, Jack London, William T. Stead, Gambier Bolton, Andrew Jackson Davis, Nizida, Helena Blavatsky, Walter F. Prince, Mark Twain, Chester Bailey Fernald
The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)
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"I paid especial attention to a large writing-table near which he sat, and upon which lay confusedly some miscellaneous letters and other papers, with one or two musical instruments and a few books. Here, however, after a long and very deliberate scrutiny, I saw nothing to excite particular suspicion.
"No sooner had I glanced at this letter than I concluded it to be that of which I was in search. To be sure, it was, to all appearance, radically different from the one of which the Prefect had read us so minute a description. Here the seal was large and black, with the D—— cipher, there it was small and red, with the ducal arms of the S—— family. Here, the address, to the Minister, was diminutive and feminine; there the superscription, to a certain royal personage, was markedly bold and decided; the size alone formed a point of correspondence. But, then, the radicalness of these differences, which was excessive: the dirt; the soiled and torn condition of the paper, so inconsistent with the true methodical habits of D——, and so suggestive of a design to delude the beholder into an idea of the worthlessness of the document,—these things, together with the hyperobtrusive situation of this document, full in the view of every visitor, and thus exactly in accordance with the conclusions to which I had previously arrived; these things, I say, were strongly corroborative of suspicion, in one who came with the intention to suspect.
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