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1

The Two-Cent Stamp

2

The Sharpers and the Moneylender, from the Thousand and One Nights

3

Parthian Shot

4

The Craft of the Three Sharpers, from the Thousand and One Nights

5

The Gallows

6

The Darkness

7

The Bloodstained Parasol - James Ravenscroft

8

The Chicken

9

Story of the Vanishing Patient - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

10

The Mysterious Case

11

The Confession - Guy de Maupassant

12

The Thinking Machine

13

The White Jade Seal

14

The Shunned House - HP Lovecraft

15

No Way Out

16

At Old Man Eckert's - Ambrose Bierce

17

Death at the Excelsior

18

Oil of Dog - Ambrose Bierce

19

The Brahman Who Lost His Treasure

20

A Strange Tale of Cannibalism

21

The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant

22

The Search Party's Find

23

Visions of the Night - Ambrose Bierce

24

The Triumph of Night - Edith Wharton

25

The Puzzle - Anonymous

26

The Second Customer and the Amber Beads

27

A Quicksilver Cassandra copy

28

The Man Who Lived Next Door To Himself

29

Hootch

30

The Nightmare Room

31

The Signal-Man - Charles Dickens

32

The Door Of Doom - Mary Sharon

33

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

34

The First Problem - Jacques Futrelle

35

Visakha

36

The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual

37

The Oval Portrait

38

Without the Wedding Garment - Anonymous

39

The Adventure of the Three Robbers - Lucius Apuleius

40

Jim Dickinson's Head - Harold Ward copy

41

The True Tale of the Phantom Coach - WIlliam Thomas Linskill

42

The Strange Orchid - HG Wells

43

The Dead Woman's Photograph - W Bob Holland copy

44

The Phantom Hag

45

The Readjustment - Mary Hunter Austin

46

Lakshadatta and Labdhadatta

47

The Adventure of the Crooked Man

48

The Cats of Ulthar - HP Lovecraft

49

The Tarn - Hugh Walpole

50

Tug of War - Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie

51

The Secret Fear

52

The Tell-Tale Heart

53

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth - Rhonda Broughton

54

The Great Ruby Robbery

55

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

56

The Man on the Bottle - Gustav Meyrink

57

A Tale of a Demon

58

His Wedded Wife - Rudyard Kipling

59

Charles Ashmore's Trail - Ambrose Bierce

60

His Thirteenth Wife - Herbert Raymond Carter

61

For Pretty Things

62

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance - MR James

63

Pichon and Sons, Of The Croix Rousse

64

A Diagnosis of Death - Ambrose Bierce copy

65

When I Was Dead - Vincent O'Sullivan

66

A Man-hating Maiden

67

The Weaver Who Became a Leach, from the Thousand and One Nights

68

The Murderer - Richard - Middleton

69

The Eyes of the Panther - Ambrose Bierce

70

The Dice Thrower

71

The Mad Woman - Guy de Maupassant

72

St John's Eve - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

73

The Lost Duchess

74

The House of Fear

75

The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe copy

76

The Spook House - Ambrose Bierce

77

The Mystery of the One - Legged Man

78

The Owl's Ear - Émile Erckmann

79

The Parlor-Car Ghost - W Bob Holland copy

80

The Deposition - Luigi Capuana

81

The Ghosts of Red Creek - W Bob Holland

82

The Pet

83

The Lost Door - Dorothy Quick

84

The Face in the Target

85

The Striding Place - Gertrude Atherton

86

The Eye of Apollo

87

Told by the Constable, from the Thousand and One Nights

88

The Mysterious Mummy

89

A Crack Shot

90

The Snake Fiend

91

The Last House in C Street - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

92

The Dishonest Goldsmith and the Ingenious Painter

93

The Power of Eloquence

94

The White Dog - Fyodor Sologub

95

A Terrible Night - Fitz-James O'Brien

96

A Case of Identity

97

Napoleon and the Spectre

98

The Golden Ingot - Fitz-James O'Brien

99

Last Scene of All - Lord Dunsany

100

The Mystery of Room 16

101

The Stranger's Latchkey

102

The Survivor - Edwin G Wood

103

The King Who Made Mats

104

A Grammatical Ghost - Mark Twain

105

A Man With Two Lives - Ambrose Bierce

106

By Word of Mouth - Rudyard Kipling

107

The Abandoned House

108

The Lingering Death - Songling Pu

109

The Spasm - Guy de Maupassant

110

The Closed Window - Arthur Christopher Benson

111

His Dead Wife's Photograph - S Mukerji

112

A Phantom Toe - W Bob Holland

113

The Mysterious Highwayman

114

An Uncomfortable Bed - Guy de Maupassant

115

In the Virginia Room

116

In the House of Suddhoo - Rudyard Kipling

117

The Heart on the Mantel - Paul Everman

118

The Owl's Ear - Emile Erckmann

119

Mother and Child - James Bowker

120

Evidence

121

The Purloined Letter copy

122

Man Overboard - Winston S Churchill

123

The Living Dead - Seymour Le Moyne

124

The Hound - HP Lovecraft

125

The Failure

126

The Clue of the Silver Spoons

127

The Vengeance of a Tree - Eleanor F Lewis

128

On Being Found Out - William Makepeace Thackeray

129

The Thing at Ghent - Honore de Balzac

130

The Hour Of Death

131

The Grave

132

The Apparition - Guy de Maupassant

133

Canon Alberic's Scrap-book - Ambrose Bierce

134

The Top Attic in Pringle's Mansion - Elliott O'Donnell

135

The House, the Light and the Man - Gordon Philip England

136

The Redhill Sisterhood

137

In a Haunted House - Joseph B Bowles

138

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

139

A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf

140

The Cold Embrace - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

141

A Dead Finger - Sabine Baring-Gould

142

The Facts of the Case of M Valdemar

143

The Terrible Old Man - HP Lovecraft

144

The Hypnotist - Ambrose Bierce

145

The Mystery Of The Semi-Detached

146

A Wireless Message - Ambrose Bierce

147

Caterpillars - EF Benson

148

The Soldier and the Vampire - WIlliiam Ralston Shedden-Ralston

149

The Perfect Crime

150

The Pipe - Anonymous

151

Cave of Murdered Men - W Benson Dooling

152

Joseph, A Story - Katherine Rickford

153

The Closing Hand - Farnsworth Wright

154

The Nameless Man

155

The Diary of A Madman - Guy de Maupassant

156

More Tricks of Spiritualists - Hereward Carrington

157

Avicenna and the Observant Young Man

158

A Dead Secret - Lafcadio Hearn

159

The Highwaymen - Lord Dunsany

160

The Valley Where Dead Men Live - Harold Ward

161

The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe

162

The Great Valdez Sapphire - Anonymous

163

The Thing in the Forest - Bernard Capes

164

Uncle Cornelius His Story - George MacDonald

165

The Minor Canon - Anonymous

166

The Waters of Death - Émile Erckmann

167

Three and One are One - Ambrose Bierce

168

The Monkey's Paw

169

The Thing at Nolan - Ambrose Bierce copy

170

The Man with the Pale Eyes - Guy de Maupassant

171

The Un-Burglars

172

The Wolf - Guy de Maupassant

173

The Manuscript - Otto Larssen

174

The Man-Eating Tree - Philip Stewart Robinson

175

The Secret of Kralitz - Hentry Kuttner

176

Doom of the House of Duryea - Earl Peirce

177

The Horror of the Heights

178

Yuki-Onna - Lafcadio Hearn

179

A Jury of Her Peers

180

A Thing That Glistened

181

Fingers from the Grave - Edwin Carty Ranck

182

The Skeleton - Rabindranath Tagore

183

A Quicksilver Cassandra

184

The Coin of Dionysus

185

The Man Who Went Too Far - EF Benson

186

Problem of the Hidden Million - Jacques Futrelle

187

The Were-Wolf - Frederick Marryat

188

The Withered Hand

189

The Tree - Walter De la Mare

190

Story of and Obstinate Corpse - Elia WIlkinson Peattie

191

The White House - Sabine Baring-Gould

192

The Interval - Vincent O'Sullivan

193

Snake

194

The Miracle of Zobeide - Pierre Mille

195

Jane of George Street, Edinburgh - Elliot O'Donnell

196

The Phantom Coach - Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

197

The Riddle of the 528

198

The Robber and the Woman, from the Thousand and One Nights

199

The Well - Julian Kilman

200

Fear - Guy de Maupassant

201

Grand-Dames Ghost Story

202

The Game Played In The Dark

203

Silence - A Fable

204

The Wonderful Stone

205

The Parrot - Guy de Maupassant

206

An Inceident on Route 12 - James H Schmitz

207

Doctor DeBruce - Earl Leanston Bell

208

The Sending of Dana Da - Rudyard Kipling

209

The Woman of the Saeter - Jerome K Jerome

210

The Face that Stared Back at Blaisdell - Edwin Carty Ranck

211

The Cheerful Workman, from the Thousand and One Nights

212

The Tithe at the Moorstone - Nigel Tourneur

213

The Unjust Sentence

214

The Brand of Cain

215

The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe copy 2

216

Mrs Davenport's Ghost - Frederick F Schrader

217

The Killer

218

The Assassins' Club

219

My First Experience with the Great Logician

220

The Sussex Vampire

221

A Scandal in Bohemia

222

The Ghost of Dr Harris - Nathaniel Hawthorne

223

The Sotry of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi

224

The Jungle Presence

225

The Rope of Fear

226

The Mystery Of Black Jean

227

The Jar of Olives and the Boy Kazir, from the Thousand and One Nights

228

An Eye For An Eye - William A McGarry

229

The Siren - Tarleton Collier

230

Calamity Ahmad and Habzalam Bazazah, from the Thousand and One Nights

231

The Tomb of Sarah - Frederick George Loring

232

A Lesson In Chemistry - Charles B Cory

233

The Moabite Cipher

234

A Mystery with a Moral - Laurence Sterne

235

The Mezzotint - MR James

236

Sir Dominick's Bargain - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

237

The Horror from the Heights - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

238

The Scarecrow - G Ranger Wormser

239

Lord Beden's Motor - Harris Burland

240

La Derniere Mobilisation - William Addison Dwiggins

241

The Ghost Farm - Susan Andrews Rice

242

Ghosts - Guy de Maupassant

243

The Fading Ghost - Willis Knapp Jones

244

John Mortonson's Funeral - Ambrose Bierce

245

A Jury of Her Peers copy

246

The Veiled Nun of St Leonards - Williiam Thomas Linskill

247

The Mystery Of The Semi-Detached copy

248

Photographing Invisible Beings - WT Stead

249

Charon - Lord Dunsany

250

The Adventure of the Second Stain

251

Devereux's Dream - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

252

How Spirits Materialize - Anonymous

253

The Perfect Game - GK Chesterton

254

On the Northern Ice - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

255

The Spectre of the Castle - William Thomas Linskill

256

The Oubliette

257

The Conscript - Honoré de Balzac

258

The Empty House - Algernon Blackwood

259

A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral

260

The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe copy 3

261

Justice in the Foothills - Clement White

262

The Tap - Arthur Edwards Chapman

263

The Man with the Twisted Lip

264

After Midnight

265

The Food of Death - Lord Dunsany

266

Perdita - Hildegarde Hawthorne

267

Over an Absinthe Bottle - WC Morrow

268

An Arc of Direction

269

The Call - Algernon Blackwood

270

Hunted Down

271

Problem of the Crystal Gazer - Jacques Futrelle

272

The Premature Burial - Edgar Allan Poe

273

The Wereworld - Eugene Field

274

Thornton Smiled Significantly

275

The Duel of the Two Sharpers, from the Thousand and One Nights

276

Carved In The Flesh - Tom Rawson Hilbourn

277

The Queer Picture - Bernard Capes

278

A Ghost's Tale - Mark Twain

279

The Body-Snatcher

280

The Lady and the Kazi

281

The Phantom Friar - Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

282

A Murderer’s Mistake

283

The Mystery of the Solitary Cyclist

284

A Moth - HG Wells

285

The Torture by Hope

286

The Red Headed League

287

In the Forest of Villefere

288

The Cunning Crone, from the Thousand and One Nights

289

The Finishing Touch

290

Midnight in Beauchamp Row

291

The Cat of the Cane-Brake - Frederick Stuart Grenne

292

Judgement of a Solomon

293

A Desperate Adventure

294

Hate

295

The Ghost of the Count - W Bob Holland

296

The Eagle's Claws

297

The Catspaw

298

Devasmitá

299

The Sultan and his Three Sons, from the Thousand and One Nights

300

The Man and the Snake

301

My Wife's Tempter - Fitz-James O'Brien

302

The Clock

303

The Floating Head of The Benrachett Inn, Near the Perth Road, Dunby - Elliott O'Donnell

304

The Lost Special

305

The Melancholist and the Sharper, from the Thousand and One Nights

306

The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel

307

My Own True Ghost Story - Rudyard Kipling

308

The Legend of Sleepy Hallow - Washington Irving

309

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

310

Levanna and Our Ladies of Sorrow - Thomas de Quincey

311

The Black Hand

312

The Clever Thief

313

The Man with the Gash - Jack London

314

The Amputated Arms - Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsøe

315

A Difficult Problem

316

The Fowl in the Pot - Stanley J Weyman

317

The Purple Heart - Herman Sisk

318

At Her Beck and Call - Flroa Annie Steel

319

Don't Think About It - William W Stuart copy

320

The Blue Sequin

321

The Mystery of Ten Mummies

322

The Second Wife - Mary Heaton Vorse

323

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

324

In a Cup of Tea - Lafcadio Hearn

325

The Reaper - Dorothy Easton

326

The Problem of the Crystal Gazer

327

Cheating the Gallows

328

The Sealed Room - Bernhard Severin Ingemann

329

Keesh, son of Keesh - Jack London

330

The Phantom Woman - W Bob Holland

331

The Oblong Box

332

The Devil Takes a Hand

333

A Voice form the Pit - Bernard Capes

334

Her Letters

335

The Ghost of Washington - W Bob Holland

336

The Green and Gold Bug - JM Alvey

337

The Triple Murder in Mulberry Bend

338

Shadow - A Parable - Edgar Allan Poe

339

Glamis Castle - Elliot O'Donnell

340

The Bloodstained Parasol

341

The Guilty Man - A Study in Tragedy

342

The Old Mansion - W Bob Holland

343

The Five Orange Pips

344

The Ghost of a Live Man - W Bob Holland

345

The Man and the Snake - Ambrose Bierce

346

There Is A Reaper

347

The Gat

348

The Night School - Jame Hopper

349

The Black Bag Left on a Doorstep

350

The Last Throw - Aluisio Azevedo

351

An Arrest - Ambrose Bierce

352

The Sequel

353

A Legend of Sonora - Hildegarde Hawthorne

354

My Favorite Murder - Ambrose Bierce

355

The House That Was Not - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

356

The Adventures of the Diamond Necklace

357

The Green-Stone God and the Stockbroker

358

The Judges House - Bram Stoker

359

The Cheated Juliet

360

The Field Bazaar

361

The Phantom Regiment of Killiecrankie - Elliot O'Donnell

362

If You Se Her Face - Bithia Mary Croker

363

The Oblong Box - Edgar Allan Poe

364

The Black Patch - Julian Kilman

365

The Ghost of Silent Smith - C Franklin Miller

366

Letter to Sura - Pliny the Younger

367

The Black Cat

368

The Torture by Hope - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

369

The Hard-Boiled Egg

370

The Miniature - John Younge Akerman

371

Murder in Haste

372

Mahaushadha

373

A Foreign Office Romance

374

The Return - Robert Murray Gilchrist

375

The Screaming Skull - Francis Marion Crawford

376

The Black Dog - Stephen Crane

377

An Unbidden Guest - W Bob Holland

378

The Reconciliation - Lafcadio Hearn

379

In the Dark - Ronal Kayser

380

A Pair of Hands, An Old Maids Story - Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

381

The Purloined Letter

382

The Insanity of Jones - Algernon Blackwood

383

Another Solomon

384

The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce

385

Elfwater - Norman Douglas

386

The Haunted House in Charnwood Forest

387

Mr Twistleton's Typewriter - Anonymous

388

The Invisible Eye - Émile Erckmann

389

The Tin Box

390

In the Mirror - Valery Bryusov

391

From the Loom of the Dead - Elia Wilkinson Peattie

392

Out of the Deep - Walter De la Mare

393

An Heiress from Redhorse - Ambrose Bierce

394

The Safety Match

395

The Golgotha Dancers - Manly Wade Wellman

396

The B-Flat Trombone

397

The Scar on the Throat, from the Thousand and One Nights

398

A Vine on a House

399

The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall - John Kendrick Bangs

400

A Scandal in Bohemia - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

401

The Black Cat - Edgar Allan Poe

402

The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe

403

The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe

404

Jim Dickinson's Head - Harold Ward

405

Don't Think About It - William W Stuart

406

The Dead Woman's Photograph - W Bob Holland

407

A Diagnosis of Death - Ambrose Bierce

408

The Thing at Nolan - Ambrose Bierce

409

The Veiled Nun of St. Leonards - Williiam Thomas Linskill

410

Mr. Twistleton's Typewriter - Anonymous

411

The Fowl in the Pot - Stanley J. Weyman

412

Without the Wedding Garment

413

The Facts of the Case of M. Valdemar

414

A Quicksilver Cassandra

415

The Mystery of the One-Legged Man