• Publication: The Mystery BookPublication Record # 710403
• Editor: H. Douglas Thomson
• Date: 1934-00-00
• Publisher: Odhams Press
• Pages: 1086
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: 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
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1595
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 13227672
  • Reginald-1: 14093

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Mystery Book • interior artwork by Ernest Wallcousins
• 7 • Introduction (The Mystery Book) • essay by H. Douglas Thomson
• 23 • Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty • (1922) • short story by Stacy Aumonier
• 40 • A. V. Laider • (1916) • short story by Max Beerbohm
• 50 • A Thread of Scarlet • short story by J. J. Bell
• 73 • The Man and the Snake • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 80 • The Occupant of the Room • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 89 • A Terribly Strange Bed • short story by Wilkie Collins [as by W. Wilkie Collins]
• 105 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 127 • The Black Veil • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 140 • The Ivory God • (1905) • short story by J. S. Fletcher
• 153 • The Squire's Story • non-genre • (1853) • short story by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
• 169 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 176 • A Tale of Terror • (1821) • short story by Thomas Hood
• 179 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 199 • The Smile of La Gioconda • short story by Morley Roberts
• 206 • The Invisible Man • [The Invisible Man] • (1897) • novel by H. G. Wells
• 340 • The Nice Girl • short story by H. C. Bailey
• 360 • The Game Played in the Dark • non-genre • [Max Carrados] • (1914) • novelette by Ernest Bramah
• 381 • The Swedish Match • short story by
  Антон Чехов^?Anton Chekhov
  (trans. of
  Шведская спичка^?Shvedskaya spichka
  1884) [as by Anton Chekhov]
• 401 • The Envelope • short story by J. Storer Clouston
• 415 • The Missing Baronet • novelette by G. D. H. Cole and Margaret I. Cole [as by G. D. H. Cole and M. I. Cole]
• 440 • The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express • novelette by Freeman Wills Crofts
• 464 • The Adventure of the Speckled Band • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 490 • Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe • (1834) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 501 • The Wrong House • [Raffles] • (1901) • short story by E. W. Hornung
• 515 • Another Shot in the Locker • short story by Michael Kent
• 523 • The Black Pearl • short story by Maurice Leblanc
• 539 • The Cave of Ali Baba • novelette by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 568 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 586 • The Green Mamba • [J. G. Reeder] • short story by Edgar Wallace
• 603 • Jerry Jarvis's Wig • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • (1843) • short story by Richard Harris Barham
• 620 • The Last Séance • (1926) • short story by Agatha Christie
• 634 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 654 • The Haunted Ships • (1821) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 669 • Mrs. Veal • (1924) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
• 678 • Out of the Deep • (1923) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 705 • A Night at an Inn • (1916) • short fiction by Lord Dunsany
• 718 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 729 • The Turn of the Screw • [The Turn of the Screw] • (1898) • novel by Henry James
• 829 • "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" • (1904) • novelette by M. R. James
• 850 • The Witch Aunt • short story by Charles Lamb (variant of Maria Howe: The Witch Aunt 1809)
• 857 • Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
• 872 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1869) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 906 • The Haunted and the Hauters; or, The House and the Brain • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton]
• 942 • The Werewolf • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by Captain Frederick Marryat]
• 962 • The Open Door • (1882) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant
• 1002 • Tchériapin • (1920) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• 1020 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 1040 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair
• 1060 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker