Mystery ed. A. K. Barton (Dent, 1937, 252pp, hc, an)
Anthology of ghost and mystery stories designed for use at schools, complete with a set of exercises.
- 1 · A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal · Daniel Defoe · ar B. Bragg, 1706, uncredited.
- 20 · The Spectre of Tappington · Richard Harris Barham · nv Bentley’s Miscellany February 1837, as by Thomas Ingoldsby
- 51 · The Werewolf · Frederick Marryat · ex from The Phantom Ship, Henry Colburn, May 1839
- 75 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Lord Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited.; original version.
- 119 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844
- 141 · The Black Veil · Charles Dickens · ss Sketches by Boz: First Series by Boz, Macrone, 1836, as by Boz
- 155 · The Bend of the Road · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · nv The Illustrated London News November 27 1905, as by Q
- 181 · The Envelope · J. Storer Clouston · ss The Sphere November 24 1919
- 198 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 5 1910, as “The Bolt from the Blue”
- 218 · The Dead Hand [Foreign Legion: John Bull] · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917
- 233 · My Adventure in Norfolk · A. J. Alan · ss The London Magazine October 1927
broadcast by the BBC Dec 24, 1926.
- 242 · The Ancient Sin [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine May 1923
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