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Gaslight-Arts main page: a chronological index

Website for stories of mystery, adventure and The Weird (1800-1919),
emphasizing serial publication from newspapers and magazines.


Some antique authors here held offensive opinions, casually. The slurs and superior attitudes on display were not justified; not now — not then. But it would feel dishonest to hide their mistakes.

As you read, you will understand why different groups, throughout history, have had to make a stand for themselves.

- The Editor.


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"Are there men in other worlds?" (1908) by Louis Robinson (1857–1928)

"The haunted room : A veritable ghost story" (1855) by Henry Herbert

"The stone vault" (1870) by anonymous

"The tragic end of Guy de Maupassant" (1908) by Albert Schinz (1870-1943)

 

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"Among books : Queer cranks that haunt libraries in Boston" (1888) by anonymous

"The angel warriors at Mons" (1915) by Ralph Shirley (1865-1946)

"The bowmen" (1914) by Arthur Machen (1863-1947)

"The cannibal's love : And how it proved uncomfortably consuming to the object of its choice" (1880) by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook (1854-1882)]

"Changing trains at a mile a minute" (1896) by anonymous

"Crow Avery; And how he came to get the Book" (1883) by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook (1854-1882)]

"Detective Stories Inspired as Are Poems, So Says Burton E. Stevenson" (1915) by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

"The detective story" (1919) by Ernest M Poate (1884-1935)

"The detective in the inkpot : An interview with Mr Inglis - the penman" (1886) by anonymous

"The doctor's metempsychosis" (1893) by M Penrose

"Exposing The Ocean Sharpers" (1896, 1921 ed) by A Oakey Hall (1826-1898)

"Fatal presentiments" (1824) by "Cassius"

"Additional instances of 'fatal presentiments'" (1824) by "Oniropolos"

"Feu des Roussi" (1872) by Faucher de Saint-Maurice [pseudonyme pour Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher 🍁] (1844-1897)

"Fiddle o' dreams" (1913, 1933 ed) by Arthur Morrison (1863-1945)

Forewarned : A story of the intelligence department (1897~98) by Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908)

"The ghost and the jewels" (1897) by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)

"The ghost of George Washington" (1904 ed) by anonymous

"Ghosts up in Ontario : Queer things the people say they see and hear" (1898) by anonymous

"The house in the wood" (1897) by Hubert S Ryan (1876-1948)

"The inexplicable fee" (1907) by James Hazelton Willard (1848-1901)

"La jeune fille « électrique » et les lois de l'équilibre" (1892) by Dr z

  • [includes the English translation: "The electric girl"]

"John Whopper the newsboy" (1870) by Thomas M Clark (1812-1903)

The journal of a scientist during a voyage to the planet Mars (1891~92) by "Samuel H King"

"Lauder Caine the Confessor" (1896~97) by Percy Andreæ (1858-1924)

"Libellers and forgers" [possibly aka, Detectives of the inkpot] (1896) by anonymous

"Library lunatics" (1887) by anonymous

"The logic of circumstances" (1902) by James Hazelton Willard (1848-1901)

"London undermined" (1892) by Vincent Elsden

"The Lusitania waits" (1916) by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)

"Many novelists commercialize sex instincts, says Robert Herrick" (1915) by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

"Moral money-clippers" (1886) by J E H

"Mort's dream-picture" (1876) by anonymous

"My Sherlock Holmes" (1895) by Barry Kellogg

"The Negro-American" (1885) by John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890)

"Nick Hogaboom's scoop" (1903 ed) by anonymous

"On ghosts" (1847) by Angus B Reach (1821-1856)

"The origin of immorality" (1900) by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)

"Phantoms" (1853) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

"A premonition" (1896) by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)

"Restoring defective books" (1887) by anonymous

"The ride of Collins Graves" (1874) by Sidney Dickinson (1851-1919)

"The ride of Collins Graves" (1874) by John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890)

"The serial interest" (1918) by Amos R Wells (1862-1933)

"Serial system hurts our novels, says George Barr McCutcheon" (1915) by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

Strange stories of a nurse (1902~03) by anonymous

"Things wished to be true" (1839) by Robert Chambers (1802-1871)

"The tricycle of the future" (1885) by Frank R Stockton (1834-1902)

"The true story of Richard" (1880) by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook (1854-1882)]

"Unwelcome library visitors : The cranks, tramps, and vandals who poorly return their privileges" (1882) by anonymous

"The vanishing millionaire" (1902) by James Hazelton Willard (1848-1901)

"What a piece of waistcoat did" (1878) by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook (1854-1882)]

"The white ships and the red" (1915) by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

 

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