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The Mystery Book

H. Douglas Thomson

First published 1934
Publisher Odhams Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 1086

Illustrator from Tuck. Additional data from The Supernatural Index. Also contains the non-genre story "My Adventure at Chiselhurst" by A. J. Alan (page 331) which is not indexed below

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Page Title Author(s) Type
7 Introduction (The Mystery Book) H. Douglas Thomson Essay
23 Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty Stacy Aumonier Short Story
40 A. V. Laider Max Beerbohm Short Story
50 A Thread of Scarlet J. J. Bell Short Story
73 The Man and the Snake Ambrose Bierce Short Story
80 The Occupant of the Room Algernon Blackwood Short Story
89 A Terribly Strange Bed W. Wilkie Collins Short Story
105 The Horla Guy de Maupassant Novelette
127 The Black Veil Charles Dickens Short Story
140 The Ivory God J. S. Fletcher Short Story
153 The Squire's Story Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Short Story
169 The Furnished Room O. Henry Short Story
176 A Tale of Terror Thomas Hood Short Story
179 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
199 The Smile of La Gioconda Morley Roberts Short Story
206 The Invisible Man H. G. Wells Novel
340 The Nice Girl H. C. Bailey Short Story
360 The Game Played in the Dark Ernest Bramah Novelette
381 The Swedish Match Anton Chekhov Short Story
401 The Envelope J. Storer Clouston Short Story
415 The Missing Baronet G. D. H. Cole & M. I. Cole Novelette
440 The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express Freeman Wills Crofts Novelette
464 The Adventure of the Speckled Band Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
490 Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
501 The Wrong House E. W. Hornung Short Story
515 Another Shot in the Locker Michael Kent Short Story
523 The Black Pearl Maurice Leblanc Short Story
539 The Cave of Ali Baba Dorothy L. Sayers Novelette
568 Markheim Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
586 The Green Mamba Edgar Wallace Short Story
603 Jerry Jarvis's Wig Richard Harris Barham Short Story
620 The Last Séance Agatha Christie Short Story
634 The Upper Berth F. Marion Crawford Novelette
654 The Haunted Ships Allan Cunningham Short Story
669 Mrs. Veal Daniel Defoe Short Story
678 Out of the Deep Walter de la Mare Novelette
705 A Night at an Inn Lord Dunsany Short Story
718 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
729 The Turn of the Screw Henry James Novel
829 "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" M. R. James Novelette
850 The Witch Aunt Charles Lamb Short Story
857 Thurnley Abbey Perceval Landon Short Story
872 Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
906 The Haunted and the Hauters; or, The House and the Brain Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton Novelette
942 The Werewolf Captain Frederick Marryat Short Story
962 The Open Door Margaret Oliphant Novelette
1002 Tchériapin Sax Rohmer Short Story
1020 Wandering Willie's Tale Sir Walter Scott Short Story
1040 Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched May Sinclair Novelette
1060 The Judge's House Bram Stoker Short Story