Contents: A. J. Alan -- The smell in the library

Michael Arlen -- The man in the bell

W. E. Aytoun -- The mysterious man

Honore de Balzac -- The folding doors

Marjorie Bowen -- The lady of Glenwith Grange

Wilkie Collins -- The new sun

J. S. Fletcher -- Hot water

Val Gielgud -- The island

L. P. Hartley -- Edward Randolph's portrait

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The spectre bridegroom

Washington Irving -- The fasts in the case of M. Valdemar

Edgar Allan Poe -- The tarn

Hugh Walpole -- The resurrectionist

Samuel Warren -- The blue room

Prosper Merimee -- The cafe of terror

E. Phillips Oppenheim -- The avenging chance

Anthony Berkeley -- A lesson in crime

G. D. H. and M. Cole -- Mr. Pemberton's commission

Freeman Wills Crofts -- Who killed castelvetri?

Gilbert Frankau -- The aluminium dagger

R. Austin Freeman -- The Glyston slander

Herbert Jenkins -- Arsene Lupin in prison

Maurice Leblanc -- The Fenchurch street mystery

baroness Orczy -- Peacock house

Eden Phillpotts -- The vanishing diamond

John Rhode -- Staley Fleming's hallucination

Ambrose Bierce -- The Italian's story

Catherine Crowe -- The ghost of Dorothy Dingley

Daniel Defoe -- To be taken with a grain of salt

Charles Dickens -- The phantom coach

Amelia B. Edwards -- Madam Crowl's ghost

Sheridan Le Fanu -- Black coffee

Jeffery Farnol -- The black ferry

John Galt -- The dreamland bride

Theophile Gautier -- The dilemma of Phadrig

Gerald Griffin -- Mary Burnet

James Hogg -- The three sisters

W. W. Jacobs -- Mr. Kempe

Walter De La Mare -- The tapestried chamber

sir Walter Scott -- The frontier guards

Russell Wakefield -- The red room

H. G. Wells -- The sphinx without a secret

Oscar Wilde -- The gardener

E. F. Benson -- A Spanish ghost story

Norman Macleod -- The doctor's ghost