Publisher's Synopsis
Stories: The listener Algernon Blackwood Number 13 Montague Rhodes James The beast with five fingers William F. Harvey Sister Maddelena Ralph Adams Cram Thrawn Janet Robert Louis Stevenson The yellow cat Wilbur Daniel Steele Letter to Sura Pliny, The younger The Willows Algernon Blackwood What Was It? Fitz-James O' Brien The Middle Toe of the Right Foot Ambrose Bierce The Shell of Sense Olivia Howard Dunbar The Woman at Seven Brothers Wilbur Daniel Steele Ligeia Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Orchard Richard Le Gallienne The Bowmen Arthur Machen The house and the brain Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton The roll-call of the Reef Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch The open door Margaret Oliphant The deserted house Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (E. T. A. Hoffmann) Green branches William Sharp, Fiona MacLeod, pseudonym The four-fifteen express Amelia B. Edwards The were-wolf Frederick Marryat The withered arm Thomas Hardy The stalls of Barchester Cathedral Montague Rhodes James Lady Farquhar's Old Lady Mary Louisa Molesworth The apparition of Mrs. Veal Daniel de Foe The man who went too far Edward Frederic Benson The phantom 'Rickshaw Rudyard Kipling The rival ghosts Brander Matthews The dammed thing Ambrose Bierce The interval Vincent O'Sullivan "Dey ain't no ghosts" Ellis Parker Butler The signal-man Charles Dickens The haunted ships Allan Cunningham The mysterious card Cleveland Moffett A terribly strange bed Wilkie Collins The torture by hope Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam My fascinating friend William Archer Mr. Bloke's item - Mark Twain The secret of Goresthorpe Grange Arthur Conan Doyle The black hand Arthur Reeve Missing: Page Thirteen Anna Katharine Green Some Scotland Yard stories Sir Robert Anderson The mount of sorrow Harriet Prescott Spofrod Who was she? Bayar Taylor Balacchi brothers Rebecca Harding Davis A memorable murder Celia Thaxter A light man Henry James. The heartbreak cameo Lizzie W. Champney Brother Sebastian's friendship Harold Frederic The bishop's vagabond Octave Thanet The Brigade Commander John William De Forest The story of two lives Julia Schayer Friend Barton's concern Mary Hallock Foote Love in old cloathes Henry Cuyler Bunner Fishhead Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb The shunned House H. P. Lovecraft