Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content:Detective Stories:The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe)A Scandal in Bohemia (A. Conan Doyle)The Biter Bit (Wilkie Collins)The Safety Match (Anton Chekhov)The Black Hand (Arthur B. Reeve)Missing: Page Thirteen (Anna Katherine Green)Some Scotland Yard Cases (Sir Robert Anderson)The Rope of Fear (Thomas W. Hanshew and Mary E. Hanshew)Suspense Stories:The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne)The Oblong Box (Edgar Allan Poe)A Terribly Strange Bed (Wilkie Collins)The Torture by Hope (Villiers de l'Isle Adam)The Mysterious Card (Cleveland Moffett)The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat)My Fascinating Friend (William Archer)The Lost Room (Fitz-James O'Brien)The Great Valdez Sapphire (Anonymous)Ghost Stories:Thrawn Janet (Robert Louis Stevenson)The Horla (Guy de Maupassant)To Sura: A Letter (Pliny the Younger)The Beast with Five Fingers (William F. Harvey)Number 13 (Montague Rhodes James)Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford)Sister Maddelena (Ralph Adams Cram)The Man Who Went Too Far (E.F. Benson)The Phantom Rickshaw (Rudyard Kipling)The Apparition of Mrs. Veal (Daniel Defoe)Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book (M. R. James)The Haunted and the Haunters (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton)The Silent Woman (Leopold Kompert)The Rival Ghosts (Brander Matthews)The Damned Thing (Ambrose Bierce)The Interval (Vincent O'Sullivan)Dey Ain't No Ghosts (Ellis Parker Butler)The Banshees of IrelandSome Real American GhostsThe Deserted House (E. T. A. Hoffmann)The Withered Arm (Thomas Hardy)The House and the Brain (Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton)The Roll-Call of the Reef (A. T. Quiller-Couch)The Open Door (Mrs. Margaret Oliphant)The Mysterious Sketch (Erckmann-Chatrian)Green Branches (Fiona Macleod)The Were-Wolf (H. B. Marryatt)Clarimonde (Thophile Gautier)Paranormal Psychic Stories

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