Contents

Rudyard Kipling
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife

A. Conan Doyle
A Case of Identity
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
Egerton Castle
The Baron's Quarry


Stanley J. Weyman
The Fowl in the Pot

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pavilion on the Links

Wilkie Collins
The Dream Woman
The First Narrative
The Second Narrative
The Third Narrative
Fourth (and Last) Narrative

Anonymous
The Lost Duchess
The Minor Canon
The Pipe
The Puzzle
The Great Valdez Sapphire

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-70)
The Haunted House
No. I Branch Line: The Signal Man


BULWER-LYTTON (1803-73)
The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain
The Incantation

THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859)
The Avenger


CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN (1782-1824)
Melmoth the Wanderer

LAURENCE STERNE (1713-68)
A Mystery with a Moral

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-63)
On Being Found Out
The Notch on the Ax

ANONYMOUS
Bourgonef
The Closed Cabinet


THE MOST INTERESTING STORIES OF ALL NATIONS
"Riddle Stories"


F. MARION CRAWFORD (1854-)
By the Waters of Paradise

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1862-)
The Shadows on the Wall

MELVILLE D. POST (1871-)
The Corpus Delicti

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-)
An Heiress from Redhorse
The Man and the Snake

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-49)
The Oblong Box
The Gold-Bug

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams
Adventure of the Black Fisherman

CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN (1771-1810)
Wieland's Madness

FITZJAMES O'BRIEN (1828-1862)
The Golden Ingot
My Wife's Tempter

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)
The Minister's Black Veil

ANONYMOUS
Horror: A True Tale