Table of Contents

Detective Stories

The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)

A Scandal in Bohemia (A. Conan Doyle)

The Safety Match (Anton Chekhov)

Missing: Page Thirteen (Anna Katherine Green)

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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)

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Ghost Stories

Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Horla (Guy de Maupassant)

To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger)

The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson)

The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling)

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe)

The Damned Thing (Ambrose Bierce)

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The Deserted House

(E. T. A. Hoffmann)

The Withered Arm (Thomas Hardy)

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)

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Paranormal Psychic Stories

When the World Was Young (Jack London)

Joseph—A Story (Katherine Rickford)

Ligeia (Edgar Allan Poe)

A Ghost (Lafcadio Hearn)

The Eyes of the Panther (Ambrose Bierce)

Photographing Invisible Beings (William T. Stead)

The Sin-Eater (Fiona Macleod)

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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)