The Mystery Book
Edited by H. Douglas Thomson
Odhams Press Ltd, Long Acre, London, W.C.2 (1934)
17 b/w Illustrations by Ernest Wallcousins
Each story is accompanied by a b/w portrait of the author and biographical notes
CONTENTS:
Introduction by H. Douglas Thomson
Stories of Mystery and Adventure:Stacy Aumonier, Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty
Max Beerbohm, A. V. Laider
J. J. Bell, Thread o’ Scarlet
Ambrose Bierce, The Man and the Snaks
Algernon Blackwood, The Occupant of the Room
W. Wilkie Collins, A Terribly Strange Bed
Guy de Maupassant, The Horla
Charles Dickens, The Black Veil
J. S. Fletcher, The Ivory God
Mrs. Gaskell, The Squire’s Story
O. Henry, The Furnished Room
Thomas Hood, A Tale of Terror
Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
Morley Roberts, The Smile of La Gioconda
H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man
Stories of Crime and Detection:
A. J. Alan, My Adventure at Chislehurst
H. C. Bailey, The Nice Girl
Ernest Bramah, The Game Played in the Dark
Anton Chekhov, The Swedish Match
J. Storer Clouston, The Envelope
G. D. H. and M. I. Cole, The Missing Baronet
Freeman Wills Crofts, The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe
E. W. Hornung, The Wrong House
Michael Kent, Another Shot in the Locker
Maurice Leblanc, The Black Pearl
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Cave of Ali Baba
Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim
Edgar Wallace, The Green Mamba
Stories of the Supernatural:
R. H. Barham, Jerry Jarvis’s Wig
Agatha Christie, The Last Séance
F. Marion Crawford, The Upper Berth
Allan Cunningham, The Haunted Ships
Daniel Defoe, Mrs. Veal
Walter de la Mare, Our of the Deep
Lord Dunsany, A Night at an Inn
W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey’s Paw
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
M. R. James, Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, my Lad
Charles Lamb, The Witch Aunt
Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey
Sheridan Le Fanu, Green Tea
E. Bulwer Lytton, The Haunted and the Haunters
Frederick Marryat, The Werewolf
Mrs. Oliphant, The Open Door
Sax Rohmer, Tchériapin
Sir Walter Scott, Wandering Willie’s Tale
May Sinclair, Where Their Fire is not Quenched
Bram Stoker, The Hudge’s House
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