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

Stories arranged chronologically

1782

• Three versions of "Erlkönig" ["The Elf-King"] (1782~1912) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); Walter Scott (1771-1832); & Max Heinrich (1851-1916)




18xx

• True stories for young people by Charlotte Holt Gethings MacPherson [Mrs. Daniel MacPherson] 🍁 (ca. 1828-1892)




1815

• "Arion" [zu deutsch] (c.1815, 1883 ed) by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845)




1821

• "Elizabeth Villiers, and the Sailor Uncle" (1821 ed) by Mary Lamb (1764-1847)
• "The haunted ships" by Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)




1822

• "Shipwreck of the Blenden Hall" by John Pepper




1824

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Fatal presentiments" by "Cassius"
"Additional instances of 'fatal presentiments'" by "Oniropolos"

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Some account of Reter Rugg, the missing man", &c (1824~27) by Jonathan Dunwell [pseud for William Austin (1778-1841)]
• "Tale of a chemist" by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)




1830

• "The vampire-nun; or, The bride of corinth" [transl of Die Braut von Korinth] (1797, 1830 transl) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832); anonymous translation




1831

• "The late Joseph Natterstrom" by William Austin (1778-1841)
• "The mystery of Gensana" by Viator [pseud for Frederick Lokes Slous] (1802-1892)




1832

• "American ghost story" (1832 ed) probably by James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860)




1833

• "The knife" by L E L [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802-1838)
  
  
  

  1834

• The pawnbroker's lodger (1834-35) by anonymous




1836

• "The man with the cloaks : A Vermont legend" by William Austin (1778-1841)




1837

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"White man's devil-house" by F Harrison Rankin (1805-1847)

 




1838

• Llewelyn;A tale of Cambria,in four cantos by anonymous




1839

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

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

 




1840

• "President d'Albi : A tale of the eighteenth century" by "F"




1841

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Charlotte Corday, the political enthusiast" by by Daniel Wise (1813-1898)

 




1843

• "The Cambridge mystery" by F Stuart
• "Mr. Grubbe's night with Memnon" by Albert Smith (1816-1860)




1844

• "The demon of the bush : A tale of Albany in its cradle days" by Emily E Chubbuck [aka, Emily C Judson] (1817-1854)




1845

• "The witch Caprusche" by Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1818-1877)




1846

• "A real country ghost story" by Albert Smith (1816-1860)
• "A story of a weir-wolf" by Catherine Crowe (1803-1876)




1847

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

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

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Box and Cox : a romance of real life, in one act" by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)
• "Caspar Hauser, The hereditary prince of Baden" attributed to William Howitt (1792-1879)
• "An evening with the witchfinders" attributed to Henry Ferris (c1800-1848)
• "Another evening with the witchfinders" attributed to Henry Ferris (c1800-1848)




1848

• The black cabinet by anonymous, a short gothic serial.
• "A third evening with the witchfinders" attributed to Henry Ferris (c1800-1848)




1849

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"A winter's night with my old books, chiefly concerning ghosts and prodigies" by Albert Smith (1816-1860)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "A tale of mystery" by anonymous




1850

• "The bright room at Cranmore" by anonymous
• "The ivory mine : A tale of the frozen sea" by anonymous




1851

• "American ghost stories" by anonymous
• "Conspiracy of the clocks" (1851), anonymous translation [French original by Edouard Foussier (1884-1882)]




1853

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"From the bird medium" by Cuyler W Young

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Margary Gunn" by William Anderson (1805-1866)
• "Phantoms" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)




1855

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Apparitions and visions" by John William Draper (1811-1882)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The haunted room : A veritable ghost story" by Henry Herbert
• "The mysterious occurrence in Lambeth" by G P R James (1799-1860)
• "The pot of tulips" by Fitz-James O'Brien (1826-1862)
• "The yarn of the watch" by Edgar S Farnsworth




1856

• "The apple-tree table; or, Original spiritual manifestations" by Herman Melville (1819-1891)
• "Catching a booby" by Edgar S Farnsworth
• "The crazy captain" by Edgar S Farnsworth
• "A ghost on shipboard" by Edgar S Farnsworth
• "The heroic sacrifice" by Mary A Lowell
• "The mysterious ringing" by Edgar S Farnsworth
• "Wild Dick" by Edgar S Farnsworth




1857

• "Adventure at Juan Fernandez" by Edgar S Farnsworth
• "Desmond the speculator" by James Davenport Whelpley (1817-1872)




1858

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Really dangerous classes" by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The Denslow palace" by James Davenport Whelpley (1817-1872)
• "The fourfold dream" by anonymous
• "The princess and the elf-king : A Teutonic legend" by Anna Bache
• "The wreck of the pirate ship" by Mary A Lowell




1859

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Iconoclasm" by anonymous
"A word for cabby" by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Murder of the mail-carrier" by anonymous




1860

• "The atoms of Chladni" by James Davenport Whelpley (1817-1872)
• "Hunting him down : A sensation story in four parts" by Tom Hood [Jr] (1835-1874)
• "The lost diamond" by Fanny L Mace
• The marble faun; or, The romance of Monte Beni (1919, Condensed Classic Series) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
     (aka, The transformation; this edition is a radically abbreviated version of the plot)




1861

• "Horror : A true tale" by anonymous
• Underground London by John Hollingshead (1827–1904)




1862

• "The deadly affinity" by Allan George Gray




1863

• "Ellice : A tale of phantom land" [aka, Ghosts; Phantoms; Ellis; Призраки] (1873 transl) by Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
• "Fever heat" by George Manville Fenn (1831-1909)
• "The ghost in green; or, The mystery of Ridgeville" by anonymous
• Lady Audley's secret [the play], by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), dramatized by C H Hazlewood (1823–1875)




1864

• "The ghost!" by Rochester
• "Wanted — a Wife, with Money" by anonymous




1865

• "The ghost detective" by Mark Lemon (1809-1870)
• "Gaslight's George T LANIGAN page" 🍁 (1865~1886)
• "James's Danish bride" by anonymous
• "Where shall we go?" by anonymous




1866

• "The missing letter" by Mary A Lowell
• "The murder at the mine : An Australian tale" by Sethed
• "The suspicious jackdaw" (1866 ed) by Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)




1868

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"Recollections of Pic-nics" by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The bank porter's daughter" by T W Speight (1830-1915)
• "Box and Cox in the Bay of Bengal; or The Indigo Queen" by Sidney L Blanchard (1825-1883)
• "The ghost's summons" by Ada Buisson (1839-1866)
• "A mystery solved" by anonymous




1869

• "The drummer ghost" [aka, Frightened into it] by John William de Forest (1826-1906)
• "Green tea" by J Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
• "The mystery at the Château des Ormeaux" by J G Bourinot (1837-1902)
• "The Mystery of the 'Cove House'" by Frank H Norton (1836-1921)




1870

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

The "dangerous classes" of New York, and efforts to improve them by Charles Loring Brace (1826-1890)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The ancient mariner : Coleridge a sham and a fraud" by anonymous
• "Brisée" by anonymous
• "John Whopper the newsboy" by Thomas M Clark (1812-1903)
• "The life-magnet" by Alvey A Adee (1842-1924)
• "The stone vault" (1870) by anonymous




1871

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Demonomania and witchcraft" by Joseph Workman 🍁 (1805-1894)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "At Chrighton Abbey" by M E Braddon (1835-1915)
• "The Flying Dutchman" by John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890)
• "Footpads" by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
• "The man with the nose" by Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920)
• the poetry of "Harriet Prescott Spofford" (1835–1921)
    from Newspaper poets; or, Waifs and their authors (1871, 1876 ed) by Alphonso A Hopkins (1843-1918).
• "Seven little women" by anonymous
• "Thirty-seven days of peril" by Truman C Everts (1816-1901)




1872

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Stanley's story" by Lewis H Noe (1849-1931)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Christmas pastimes : games, parlor tricks, forfeits", from The Favorite, by anonymous.
• "Feu des Roussi" by Faucher de Saint-Maurice [pseudonyme pour Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher 🍁] (1844-1897)
• "An inexplicable fancy" [aka, The Cornelian Cross] by anonymous
• "James Davenport Whelpley : Yale obituary"
• "'No Living Voice'" by Thomas Street Millington (1821-1906?)




1873

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Hereditary ghosts" by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The automaton ear" by Florence McLandburgh (1850-1934)
• "Cell 25, seventh ward" by Alfred P Brotherhead (1851-1904)
• "An eighty days' trip" by anonymous
• "Experiences with detectives" by M Laing Meason (c1819-1889)
• "Gert; or, The warning in the tunnel" by Alfred P Brotherhead (1851-1904)
• The haunted school-house at Newburyport, Mass by anonymous
    (see also "Meddling with the occult")
• "'Missing'" by Mrs. Arnold [aka, Sarah Anne Jeffreys (1836–1888)]
• "The mysterious photograph; and how I found the original" by "A C"
• "Shot on the home-stretch" by Alfred P Brotherhead (1851-1904)
• A terrible secret by May Agnes Fleming 🍁 (1840-1880) (in progress)




1874

• "The double nail murders" by George Carter Stent (1833-1884)
• "The ride of Collins Graves" by Sidney Dickinson (1851-1919)
• "The ride of Collins Graves" by John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890)




1875

• "The mad student, and how he made me a victim" by M Quad [pseud for C B Lewis] (1842-1924)
• "The magic glass: or, Detecting a murderer" by M Quad [pseud for C B Lewis] (1842-1924)




1876

• "An Irish Lear" [aka, The two Lears] (1876, 1877 ed) by Charles Reade (1814-1884)
• "Mort's dream-picture" by anonymous
• "The myrtle leaf : a Thanksgiving story" by Alphonso A Hopkins (1843-1918)
• "A stroke of fortune" by C Austin Johnson
      [aka, "The rescue : An old sailor's stroke of fortune"; "Romance of a Sailor"]




1877

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The art of smiling"(1877) by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Bessie and Luke" by anonymous
• "Foretold" by Eben E Rexford (1848-1916)
• "A legend of the dead-house" (1877) by Magnolia
• "A terrible Christmas" by J A Phillips 🍁 (1842-1907)




1878

• "Arion" [in English] (1878) translated by Ichabod Slipshod
• "Ghost-stories unveiled" (1878~81) from Chambers's Journal
• The mystery of Mostyn Manor by Arthur à Beckett (1844-1909)
• "Our scientific observations of a ghost" by Grant Allen 🍁 (1848-1899)
• "A terrible revenge" by Eben E Rexford (1848-1916)
• "What a piece of waistcoat did" by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook (1854-1882)]




1879

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The influence of society on the stage" by Frank A Marshall (1840-1889)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• The crime of the opera by Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821-1891)
      (This is a much abbreviated version from 1914.)
• "Exploits of a Forger" by anonymous
• "Master or man?" by Eben E Rexford (1848-1916)
• "A midnight adventure in the streets of London" by anonymous
• "My New Year's among the mummies" by Grant Allen 🍁 (1848-1899)
• "The robbery at Forwood Chase" by "Wynra"




1880

• "The cannibal's love : And how it proved uncomfortably consuming to the object of its choice" by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook (1854-1882)]
• "The ghost of a riding saddle" by T O Ayres
• "'Nothing succeeds like success'" by Frank A Marshall (1840-1889)
• "The old house in Bloomsbury" by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)
• "Sleep-sight : The prescience of the mind" by Frank Wilkeson (1848-1913)
• "The true story of Richard" by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook (1854-1882)]




1881

• "Bears and Dacoites: A tale of the Ghauts" by G. A. Henty (1832-1902)
• "A fascinating ghost" by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)
• "A ghost story, by a ghost" by J Hyatt Smith (1824-1886)
• "Recent improvements in telegraphy" by anonymous
• "A Southwest Virginia deer drive" by James Willard Schultz ("The Sportsman Tourist") (1877-1947)
      [N.B.: Contains language warning.]
• "A Venetian ghost story" (aka, "A ghost story of the lagoons") by Horatio F Brown (1854-1926)




1882

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The philosophy of the kitten" (1882 ed) by Francis Tiffany (1827-1908)
"Unwelcome library visitors : The cranks, tramps, and vandals who poorly return their privileges" by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The balloon ascent" (1882 ed) by Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868)
• "The curse of the Catafalques" by F Anstsey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1856-1935]
• "A fable from the Soudan" by anonymous
• "Inez Valesco : The mystery of the Ochre House murder" by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook] (1853-1882)
• "Joe Matlock as seen in the spirit" [aka, Clark's ghost story] by Frank Wilkeson (1848-1913)
• "The lady, or the tiger?" (1882) by Frank R Stockton (1834-1902)
  • see also the sequel : "The discourager of hesitancy" (1885)
• "The paying-teller's story" by Richard Burleigh Kimball (1816-1892)
• "The storm" by Friedrich Spielhagen (1829-1911)
• "On the trail of a Welshman's murderer" by anonymous




1883

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"The old melo-drama" by H Barton Baker (1836-1906)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Crow Avery; And how he came to get the Book" by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook (1854-1882)]
• "Joe Miller" by Dutton Cook (1831-1883)
• "The little bugler of Kassassin : A true story of the war in Egypt, 1882." by Mrs Ballard (? - ?)
• "Sent back by the angels" by Frederick Lanbridge (1849-1922)




1884

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The decay of the British ghost" by F Anstsey [Thomas Anstey Guthrie, 1856-1935]
"English criminals : The dodges of the dangerous classes" by Grip
"Our debt to insects" by Grant Allen 🍁 (1848-1899)
"Thoughts about apparitions" by Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle (1818-1891)
   (see also "Further thoughts on apparitions")

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• The death-mark (1884~85) by Garrett Walker
• "In the Devil's name" (1884 ed) from the German, by anonymous
• "Mrs Fillisy's burglar alarm" by Birch Arnold [pseud for Alice Eloise Bowen; aka, Mrs J M D Barlett] (1848-1920)
• "A night of horrors" (1884, 1905 ed) by "A. Tchekhoff" [i.e. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)]; translated by John Combe Miller (1869-?)
• "Shakspere at a discount, an anachromism in one scene" by Frank A Marshall (1840-1889)




1885

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"A boy's appetite for fiction" (1885) by Eliot McCormick
"De banana" by Grant Allen 🍁 (1848-1899)
"The Negro-American" by John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Elves, pixies and witches" by anonymous
• "The discourager of hesitancy," [sequel to "The lady, or the tiger?" (1882)] by Frank R Stockton (1834-1902)
• "Murder mysteries: Some famous crimes recalled by the Preller-Maxwell Affair" by anonymous
• "The old oak closet" by Frank A Marshall (1840-1889)
• "A queer Christmas" by "JRC"
• "The tricycle of the future" by Frank R Stockton (1834-1902)




1886

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Moral money-clippers" by J E H

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "After Jules Verne" by anonymous.
• "Cleopatra's asp" by anonymous
• "The detective in the inkpot : An interview with Mr Inglis — the penman" by anonymous
• "The embalmed head" by Walter Edgar McCann
• "The hidden door" by Vernon Lee [pseud for Violet Paget (1856-1935)]
• Kalee's shrine (1897 ed) by Grant Allen 🍁 (1848-1899) & May Cotes
• "Max Cramer's secret : A strange story" by Eben E Rexford (1848-1916)
• "The 'Rannerdale mystery' solved at last" by Frank A Marshall (1840-1889)
• "An underground tragedy" (1886) by C Haddon Chambers (1860-1921)
• "A week's burglar-alarm" by Frank Lee Benedict (1834-1910)




1887

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Can a blind man see a ghost" by "A Blind Contributor"
"My Books" by James Williams (1851-1911)
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"How men die in battle" by Frank Wilkeson (1848-1913)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The ancestral ghost" by Arthur Dudley Vinton (1852-1906)
• "The biter bitten; or, Christmas-eve in a lunatic asylum" by anonymous
• "The cremated ghost" by Bernard Dale [pseud for F Bramah Diplock, c1856-1898]
• "Fisher's ghost" by William Henry Suttor (1834-1905)
• "The green lady" by Walter Herries Pollock (1850-1926)
• "A legend of the Lord of Dunraven : a tale of the Glamorganshire coast" by Charles W Russell
• "Library lunatics" by anonymous
• "The living dead" (1887 ed) by Sigmund Bowman Alexander (1864-1912)
• My strange wife by Percy Russell (1847-?)
• "Restoring defective books" by anonymous
• "A strange clue" by anonymous
• "Who was she?" by anonymous
• "Which of them?" by Mabel Fitzroy Wilson [M F W] (1863-1952)




1888

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Among books : Queer cranks that haunt libraries in Boston" by anonymous
"Study of the ancient classics" by Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1817-1898)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "An 'agony column' mystery" by Richard Dowling (1846-1898)
• Mr. Bazalgette's agent by Leonard Merrick (1864-1939)
• "The Black Moss mystery" by J Monk Foster (1857-1930)
• "Captain Arthur Ashwell's confession" by Conway Cregan
• "Cara; the stenographer" by anonymous
• "The crust dropper" by Nellie Bly (1864-1922)
• The emigration of the fairies by John Hunter Duvar (1821-1899)
• "Fate found in a fog : A suburban mystery" by anonymous
• "The ghost in the gallery" by W W Fenn (1827-1906)
• "Life among the insane" (1888~89) by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• "The reporter-detective" by Horace Townsend (fl 1880's-1890's)
• "Saved by a telephone" by Ella Higginson (1861-1940)
• "The stage handkerchief" by William Davenport Adams (1851-1904)
• "Three poems on supernatural subjects" by R F L
• "Under a cloud : The story of a strange experience" (1888 ed) by Ernest A Young (1858-1936)
• "Will murder come out?" by various anonymous
• "A woman detective", anonymous newspaper article




1889

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The ethics of the turf" by James Runciman (1852-1891)
"Three-cent dreadfuls : A great library of strong and vivid literature for boys" by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "As a child in a cradle" (1889 ed) by Dwight Weldon
• "A chance observation" by Charles A Place
• "A Christmas accident" by Annie Eliot Trumbull (1857-1949)
• "The coming subjection of man" by Elizabeth Bisland (1861-1929)
• "'Cram'" by Amos R Wells (1862-1933)
• "Grayson's treasure" by Sam L Simpson (1845-1899)
• "High explosives"by C E B
• "In an old garden" by Mabel Fitzroy Wilson [M F W] (1863-1952)
• "The insane miner" [aka, "In a mine with a madman"] by anonymous
• "A magnetic man" by Edward S Van Zile (1863-1931)
• The mystery of Central Park by Nellie Bly (1864-1922)
• "On information received" by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)
• "The queer story of Adam Lind" by Fergus Hume (1859-1932)
• "The weird of the Walfords" by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925)




1890

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Crime in fiction" by Alexander Innes Shand (1832-1907)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Amelia B Edwards" by Sallie Joy White
• "Chemical clairvoyance" (1890, 1893 ed) by Edward S Van Zile (1863-1931)
• "A dead man's diary" by Coulson Kernahan (1858-1943)
• The dead man's specs by P B Power (1822-1899)
• "The Dovercourt robbery" by Charles Ogilvie
• "Fugitive Slaves, no 01 : The escape of William and Ellen Craft" by Nina Moore Tiffany
• "Fugitive Slaves, no 02 : Shadrach" by Nina Moore Tiffany
• "Fugitive Slaves, no 03 : Sims" by Nina Moore Tiffany
• "Fugitive Slaves, no 04 : Anthony Burns" by Nina Moore Tiffany
• "The ghost baby" by Francis Romano Oliphant (1859-1894)
• "The grim jokist" anonymous newspaper article
• "Mr Heaphey's apparition" by anonymous
• "Queen Christina and De Liar" by Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904)
• "The spectre in the train" by "Helen"
• "The were-wolf" By Clemence Housman (1861-1955)
• "The west-bound express" by George Flambro
     [pseud for G W Lamplugh, 1859-1926]




1891

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"English railway fiction" by Agnes Repplier (1855-1950)
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"Was the Rev. Eleazer Williams Louis xvii?" by F A S

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The Hardgate mystery : A tale of a haunted house" by Robert Bridcut (1857-1905)
• The journal of a scientist during a voyage to the planet Mars (1891~92) by "Samuel H King"
• Owain Seithenyn by "Jane Ambrach" [pseud]
• "Pete Warlow's end : A story of British Columbia" by George Flambro
     [pseud for G W Lamplugh, 1859-1926]
• "The private detective ; The private inquiry" (1891 ed) by C Haddon Chambers (1860-1921)
• "The sham fight at Ruddiford" by George Flambro
    [pseud for G W Lamplugh, 1859-1926]
• "The story of Mad Madge and the phantom angler of Broadyke Dam" by Edgar S Shrubsole
• "The thing in the copse" by H B Marriott Watson (1863-1921)




1892

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Compressed air : Cheap pneumatic power for San Francisco" anonymous article
"Fiery and pernicious literature : How it affects the young idea" by anonymous
Bookishness : "Some remarks on cold-blooded villains" by Drock

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The betrayal of Dr Ironside" by J K Leys (1847-1909)
• "The Blue Bandit of the Bread Mountains" by Rider-Haggard-Dumas-Stevenson-Flaubert-Longbow
     [presumed pseudonym for Ernest Bowen-Rowlands (1866-1951)]
• A bold bank robbery; or, Nick Carter's great haul [aka, A clever haul] by the author of "Nick Carter" (i.e. Nicholas D Carter; aka, anonymous)
• "The Disappearance of Newton Marling" by Ina Leon Cassilis [pseud for Georgina Drewry (1845-1924)]
• "The doom of London" by Robert Barr 🍁 (1850-1912)
• Life's fairy tales : "The enchanted portrait" by John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918)
• "Japanese causes célèbres, 01 : The flayed head on the gibbet" by anonymous [probably John H Wigmore (1863-1943)]
• "La jeune fille « électrique » et les lois de l'équilibre" by Dr Z
  • [includes the English translation: "The electric girl"]
• "London undermined" by Vincent Elsden
• "The man in the black sheet" by Max Pemberton (1863-1950)
• "The sin of Cleopatra Newsans; or, Was he sincere" by Isidore Ouida-Braddon-Hungerford-Alexander Levi
     [presumed pseudonym for Ernest Bowen-Rowlands (1866-1951)]
• "The solitary passenger; or, The Cruise of the 'Monsoon'" by John-Marryat-Clark-Russell Pegg
     [presumed pseudonym for Ernest Bowen-Rowlands (1866-1951)]
• "A true story" by anonymous
• "The undivided thread" by F. C. Wilde-Philips Jones
     [presumed pseudonym for Ernest Bowen-Rowlands (1866-1951)]
• "A worldly romance" by George D'Israeli-Meredith-Ward-Nemo
     [presumed pseudonym for Ernest Bowen-Rowlands (1866-1951)]




1893

    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞

• "Story of an old building : The romance of university building in New York" by Thomas Donnelly

  𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "By Act of Parliament, 6 and 7 Edward 15th, Anno Domini 2041" by Helen Hoppner Coode
• "Ebno'l Amed" by Abd el Ardavan [pseud for Harry Willard French] (1854-1915)
• "The evidence in the 'College mystery'" by Thomas Winthrop Hall (1862-1900)
• "The doctor's metempsychosis" by M Penrose
• "For his sake" (1893 ed) by S Clarke Hook (1857-1923)
• "The golden gospel of ugliness : A jeremiad on jewellers" by H G Wells (1866-1946)
• "My 'Bureau de Crime'" by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)
• "The Russian detective : a true story" by "Our Vienna Correspondent"
• "The sober, industrious poet, and how he fared at Easter-time" by James L Ford (1854-1928)
• "The stolen photograph" by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• "A strange language" (1893 ed) by Edric Vredenburg (1860-1941)
• "The strange office of a pin" by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)
• "The white horse" by E C S (?)
• "The woman's half-profits" by Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947)
• "The yellow globe : A midnight story" by Alexander W Drake (1843-1916)




1894

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The right use of books" by Mary L G Petrie 🍁 [aka, Mrs. Ashley Carus-Wilson] (1861-1935)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "1907" by Wallace McLean (?-?)
• "About telegraphic codes and cipher messages" by anonymous
• "Azim Khan's captive: a tale of the Indian Mutiny" by an Australian writer
• "The captured Cunarder" by William H Rideing (1853-1918)
• "The condemned cell" by Sarah Grand (1854-1943)
• "A dreadful night" by Edwin Lester Arnold (1857-1935)
• "A dream of red hands" by Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
• "A feline highwayman" by Frank L Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "Ghosts before the law" by Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
• "How he left the hotel" by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925)
• "The legend of the phantom ship" by anonymous
• "A phantom of the mines" by Robert Howard Syms (1866-1912)
• "On the trail of the wild turkey" by Charles D Lanier (1837-1926)
• "Out of a cedar room : a tale of British Columbia" by Mabel Fitzroy Wilson [M F W] (1863-1952)
• "Saw the ghost ship : A Georgia traveler's dismal tale of the dismal swamp" an indigenous people's legend
• "The Society for the Better Diffusion of Dynamite" by anonymous
• "The Ticking of the Clock" by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925) [aka, Mrs. Alfred Baldwin]




1895

• "The battle of Edge Hill and its ghost story" by W W H
• "Binkley's practical school of journalism" by W Sidney Porter ["O. Henry," 1862-1910]
• "The brand of Cain" (1895 ed) by anonymous
• "A Cardiff valentine" by E Patterson
• "The cornelian necklace" by Ada M Trotter
• "The detective who failed" by J Hudson
• "The ghosts of Cottenal Court" (1895 ed) by E M
• The house with the green blinds by Elizabeth N Barrow (1869-1934)
• "A knight errant" by W Sidney Porter ["O. Henry," 1862-1910]
• "The last boat in the lock" by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)
• "The last pessimist" (1895 ed) Edward S Van Zile (1863-1931)
• "The little room" by Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)
• "The sequel to the little room" by Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)
• "My Sherlock Holmes" by Barry Kellogg
• "The mystery of the golden llama" by E J Rocke Surrage (1867-1939)
• "Over a red gate" by Mabel Fitzroy Wilson [M F W] (1863-1952)
• "Sightless couriers of the air" by anonymous
• "Some strange fables" by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• "A weird warning" by Ronald J McNeill




1896

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Libellers and forgers" [possibly aka, Detectives of the inkpot] by anonymous
"Perils of the shop girl" by "An Eye Witness"

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Changing trains at a mile a minute" by anonymous
• "Chips in her purse" (1896, 1918 ed) by Marie Dressler 🍁 (1868-1934)
• "A Christmas-day crime : a romance of hypnotism" by George R Sims (1847-1922)
• "Cuba in war time" by Frank Lillie Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "A debt of vengeance" by C Osborne
• "Exposing The Ocean Sharpers" (1896, 1921 ed) by A Oakey Hall (1826-1898)
• "A ghost train" by W L Alden (1837-1908)
      [N.B.: Contains language warning.]
• A hypnotic crime, and other like true tales by Willard Douglas Coxey (1861-1943)
• "Lauder Caine the Confessor" (1896~97) by Percy Andreæ (1858-1924)
• "The love germ" by Constance Cotterell (1864-1947)
• "The magic of evil" (1896, 1918 ed) by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• this is a sequel to : "The mystery of a face" (1896)
• "The mysterious card" by Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926)
• "The mysterious card unveiled" by Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926)
• "The mystery of a face" (1896, 1918 ed) by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• see also the sequel : "The magic of evil" (1896)
• "The Plattner story" by H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
• "A premonition" by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady" by Vernon Lee [pseud for Violet Paget, 1856-1935]
• "The Röntgen ray-der" by Mr M—
• "A scorch with a phantom" by Chauncey C Brainerd (1874-1922)
• "Story of the earthquake, freckle exterminator & the deviled lobster" by David Skaats Foster (1852-1920)
• "Unsolved mysteries of crime" (1896) by Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908)
• "The Vision of a Face" by Joseph Hocking (1861-1937)
• "Wolverden Tower" (1896-nov, 1900 ed.) by Grant Allen 🍁 (1848-1899)




1897

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Club chatter : 'Three-card trick' modernised" by The Major
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"Tesla talks of Xmas" by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The black ship mystery" by Charles B Lewis
• "The Castlemaine mystery" (1897 ed) by anonymous
• "The doom of the air-god" by E J Rocke Surrage (1867-1939)
• "England in Egypt" by Frank L Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• Forewarned : A story of the intelligence department (1897~98) by Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908)
• "The ghost and the jewels" by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• "The Goodlot murder" by unknown
• "The goophered grapevine" Charles W Chestnutt (1858-1932)
      [N.B.: Contains language warning.]
• "The house in the wood" by Hubert S Ryan (1876-1948)
• "The house of the twisted sapling" by Owen Rhos-comyl [pseud for Arthur Owen Vaughan] (1863?-1919)
• The invisible man (serial edition) by H G Wells (1866-1946)
• "Japanese causes célèbres, 02 : Sokichi, or the man who would not betray his benefactor" by John H Wigmore (1863-1943)
• "A masterpiece of crime" by Jean Richepin (1849-1926)
• "'No questions asked'" by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• "The skeleton's confession" (1897 ed) by Edward S Van Zile (1863-1931)
• True detective stories from the archives of the Pinkertons by Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926) (in progress)




1898

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Marriage and misery, some sanctified debauchery" (1898 ed) by William Cowper Brann (1855-1898)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Achmet's ride" by Frank Lillie Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• The adventures of Mickey Morgan (detective) by J. Loughmore (? - ?)
      [N.B.: Contains language warning.]
• "An 'ammytoor' detective" by Howard Pease (1863-1928)
• "A crime of the underworld : A mining mystery" by J Monk Foster (1857-1930)
• A daughter of witches (1898-99) by Joanna E Wood 🍁 (1867-1927) (in progress)
• "The dynamite pack-train" by Frank L Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "The Fatal Seven" by A M Judd
• "The ghost of Fressingfield Grange" by Mabel Fitzroy Wilson [M F W] (1863-1952)
• "Ghosts up in Ontario : Queer things the people say they see and hear" by anonymous
• "How Chapkin Halid became chief detective" translated by Cyrus Adler 1863-1940) and Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
• "The iron star" by Frank L Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "Japanese causes célèbres, 03 : A braggart's narrow escape" by John H Wigmore (1863-1943)
• Mysteries of London by anonymous
• "The phantom ox" by Theodore Tilton (1835-1907)
• Stories of the Gold Star Line (1898-99) by L. T. Meade (1844-1914) and Robert Eustace (1854-1943)
• "A tale of the X ray" (1898 ed) by Clara H Holmes
• The war of the Wenuses (1898) by C L Graves (1856-1944) and E V Lucas (1868-1938)
• "Young woman plays ghost in black" by anonymous




1899

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Perils and diversions of railway travel" by John Pendleton

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The bird from Cape Horn" by Frank Lillie Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "Canadian Writers in New York" by Frank Lillie Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "The door ajar" by Helen Mathers (pseud for Ellen Buckingham Mathews, 1849-1920)
• The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), as serialized in Blackwood's Magazine.
• "In the Röntgen rays room" by Helen Mathers (pseud for Ellen Buckingham Mathews, 1849-1920)
• "The lights of the night express" by "E K G"
• "The missing Gainsborough : A true tale" (1899 ed) by Lux [pseud for Lucy M Jones]
• "The phantasmatograph" by Walter Herries Pollock (1850-1926)
• "The quarter-gunner's yarn" by Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
• "A sagebrush cicada" by Miriam Michelson (1870-1942)
• "The vision at the menhir" by E J Rocke Surrage (1867-1939)




1900

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

a brief biography of "Lurana W Sheldon" by anonymous
"The fifth commandment" by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
"The medicine of literature" by J P Coughlan (1875-?)
"The origin of immorality" by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"The queerest of colonial books" by J F Hogan

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "For His Country" by Marshall Saunders (1861-1947)
• "The god of terror" by Maitland Leroy Osborne (1871-1960)
• "Goro : The story of his harakiri" by Adachi Kinnosuké (1872-1952)
• "The inspector's story" by J P Coughlan (1875-?)
• "Killed by trifles : Odd accidents due to petty occurrences" by anonymous
• "The lively adventure of the widow's cow" by M Quad [pseud for C B Lewis] (1842-1924)
  • [aka, "The cruise of the widow's cow"]
• "Maia and Ulfheim, a sequel to 'When we dead awaken'" by L Du Pont Syle (1857-1903)
• "A mere shadow" by Arthur Morrison (1863-1945)
• "The mystery within us" by Pauline E Hopkins (1859-1930)
• One crimson stain by anonymous, a British pulp mystery in four chapters.
• "The scientific burglar" by J P Coughlan (1875-?)
• "Some Christmas stories : Famous authors discover that the Christmas bells are pealing" by anonymous
• The stress of impulse serial, by Maitland Leroy Osborne (1871-1960)
• "A surprise party by "Tula"
• "Talma Gordon" by Pauline E Hopkins (1859-1930)
• "Told in type" by anonymous




1901

• "The case of the Rev. Isaiah Hodgkins" by John D Swain (1870-1952)
• "The finger on the blind" by Headon Hill (1857-1927)
• "The great operahouse hold-up" by J P Coughlan (1875-?)
• In the secret service by Robert J Buckley (in progress)
• "The jumping procession at Echternach" by M Ogle
• "The mysterious photograph" by anonymous
• "The mystery of a four-wheeled cab" by Jerome Caminada (c1845-1914)
• "Spooks of the cacti plains" (1901) by O O Ballard [aka, Orlo Otwa Ballard (1868-1948)]
      [N.B.: Contains language warning.]
• "The stone stable mystery" by Samuel Cliall White [pseud for William Arthur Satchell, 1861-1942]




1902

• "The clothing of ghosts" by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
• "A cycling honeymoon, and how it ended" by J P Coughlan (1875-?)
• "Diana Marburg, #01: The dead hand" (1902) by L T Meade (1844-1914) & "Robert Eustace" [Eustace Robert Barton, 1854-1943]
• "Diana Marburg, #02: Finger-tips" (1902) by L T Meade (1844-1914) & "Robert Eustace" [Eustace Robert Barton, 1854-1943]
• "Diana Marburg, #03: Sir Penn Carlyll's engagement " (1902) by L T Meade (1844-1914) & "Robert Eustace" [Eustace Robert Barton, 1854-1943]
• "The haunted bungalow" by George Thursby
• "How did you die?" by Edmund Vance Cooke 🍁 (1866-1932)
• "How Dr Jack C—— died : A wonderful telepathic vision during the Zulu War" (1902, 1907) by Gerald Carlton [pseud for James Glynn (1844-1928)]
• "The logic of circumstances" by James Hazelton Willard (1848-1901)
• The love sonnets of a hoodlum by Wallace Irwin (1875-1959)
• "The marionettes" by O Henry [pseud. for William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910]
• "The newspaper woman" by John Pendleton
• "The strange experience of a book-hunter : A complete story" by Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921)
• Strange stories of a nurse (1902~03) by anonymous
• "The vanishing millionaire" by James Hazelton Willard (1848-1901)




1903

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"Eugène Sue" by anonymous
     [web log post]

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• The land of little rain by Mary Austin (1868-1934), naturalist.
(in progress)
• "The Golden Turkey mine" by Henry Seton-Karr (1853-1914)
• "Nick Hogaboom's scoop" (1903 ed) by anonymous
• "One year in Namenia" By Judith Underwood
• "The raid on the Northmore bank" (1903, 1904 ed) by A Clarke Little
• "A sailor's grave : A true story in three parts" by W C de C Williams
• The unspeakable thing [aka, The disc] by Harris Burland [John Burland Harris Burland, 1870-1926]
• "With the help of the Demon" by Theodore Waters




1904

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"A Canadian Ten-Cent Magazine" by various 🍁

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "Bald heads as railroad signals" by anonymous
• "Dr Nicholas Stone" by E Spence De Pue (aka, E Spence De Puy, 1872-1949)
• "The evil eye and witches night in Rome" by Maud Howes
• "The foolishness of 'Frisco" by Maitland Leroy Osborne (1871-1960)
• "The ghost of George Washington" (1904 ed) by anonymous
• "The honey thief" by Frank L Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "The man with a secret" by William Le Queux (1864-1927)
• Memoirs of a great detective : Incidents in the life of John Wilson Murray 🍁 (1840–1906), compiled by Victor Speer (1872-1909), reporter, mayor's secretary
      [N.B.: Contains language warning.]
• "The other side" by W David Easton
• "Plixixit : the Palenachendeskies Kikoo of Arthabasca" by S E F C Hamedoe
• "The Sea Serpent Syndicate" by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)
• "The story of a hypnotic crime" by anonymous
• "Uncle Jim's burglar" by Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) 🍁




1905

• Bar 20 yarns by Clarence E Mulford (1883-1956) (in progress)
• The Belledoon mysteries : An o'er true story by Neil T McDonald 🍁 (1824-1905)
• "The business spy" by F B Linton [presumed: Frederick B Linton, (c1875-1960)]
• "The detective's move" by Percival Clifton
• The golden flood by Edwin Lefèvre (1871–1943)
• "A hard luck story" by anonymous
• "A hypnotic digression" by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)
• "A message in cipher" by John Scholfield
• "Mr. 'Iggins' hinvisible cloth" by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)
• "Passion, poison, and petrifaction, or The fatal gazogene" by George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
• "Rays inside out : A chatty account of some scientific mysteries" by anonymous
• "Sherlock Holmes as a jealous lover" by anonymous
• "Sultana's dream" by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
     includes "An answer to Sultana's dream" (1905) by "Padmini"
• "The tangent of a crime" by Herbert D Ward (1861-1932)
• "Three Christmas days" by Roope Williams
• "Yuletide drama on a train" by John E Wilkie (1860-1934)




1906

• "Adrift with a lunatic — Mariner's terrible voyage" by anonymous
• "The coming of the Christ-Kind : A Christmas story" by Marjorie Pickthall 🍁 (1883-1922)
• "Finis" by Frank L Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "The flitting of the gods from their Olympian home by land and sea to the Canadian Rockies" by George H Ham 🍁 (1847-1926)
• "The lost bonds" by Ladd Plumley (1862-1927)
• "My night in the museum : A New Year's story" by P J Tansey
• "The mystery of the ferry house" by George Barton (1866-1940)
• Nightstick and nozzle by Seward W Hopkins (1863-1919) (in progress)
• "The sound machine" by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)
• "Stories of strange disappearances" by anonymous
• Tales of my clients, by a lady photographer by by Gertrude de S Wentworth-James (1874-1933)
• "The woman who was so tired" by Mary Mortimer Maxwell [pseud for Elizabeth Banks, (1865-1938)]




1907

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"At large, pt 04 : Humour" by Arthur C Benson (1862-1925)
"The grim humor of real-life tragedy" by Theodore Roberts (1861-1928)
"Humor" by John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)
"The villain in the show" By H D Couzens (1872-1914)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "A chase in the clouds" by John A Moroso (1874-1957)
• "Cap'en Jollyfax's gun" by Arthur Morrison (1863-1945)
• "Doctor Franklin's Crime" by George Hill (?-?)
• "The inexplicable fee" by James Hazelton Willard (1848-1901)
• "The reign of Bobo III" by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)
• "Sherlock Holmes in Russia" by Maurice Baring (1874-1945)
• "The shooting of Dan McGrew" (the poem) by Robert W. Service 🍁 (1874-1958)
      (See also the novel based on the movie, based on this poem.)
• "The ways of detectives : How they recognise their men" by anonymous
• "When Greek meets Greek : A story of the Paris Secret Police" (1872, 1907 transl) from the French of Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908)
• "The whitest thing in the world" [aka, "Peachblossoms"] by Miriam Michelson (1870-1942)




1908

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .
"Are there men in other worlds?" by Louis Robinson (1857–1928)
"The bank frauds" (1908) and "The attraction of audacity" (1909) by anonymous
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"The tragic end of Guy de Maupassant" (1908) by Albert Schinz (1870-1943)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The adventures of Marnocke Burne, detective" by "Harris Tweed"
• "Confessions of a rogue woman, part 01" by anonymous
• "Confessions of a rogue woman, part 02" by anonymous
• "Dr Bryden's discovery" by Duffield Osborne (1858-1917)
• "Memory's ghost" by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• "A psychical invasion" from John Silence by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)
• "The soul of a mummy" by Blanche Bloor Schleppey (1861-1927)
• The wall of silence : a story of Cardiff by Sidney Warwick (1870-1953)
(in progress)



1909

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"How it feels to fly : Learning to feel natural in the air — the effect of an aërial journey upon the health" (1909) by Thomas S Baldwin (1854-1923)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "A Christmas mystery : The story of three wise men" by William J Locke (1863-1930)
• "The desperado" by George W Kerby (1860-1944)
• "Famous phantoms of the sea" by F H McLean
• "The fantom diver" by George Warburton Lewis (1878-1963)
• "The hidden hate" by Howard Fitzalan [pseud for George (Fitzalan) Bronson-Howard (1884-1922)]
• "The locked door" by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (1873-1958)
• True stories of a woman detective by Mary E Holland (1868-1915) & Hugh C Weir (1884-1934)




1910

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Some supposed just causes of war" (1910, 1911 ed) by Jackson H Ralston (1857-1945)
"The psychic phrenologist" by anonymous 🍁
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"The French-Canadian conteur of the olden days" by Prosper Bender 🍁 (1844-1917)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The awakening of Zojas" by Miriam Michelson (1870-1942)
• "The Klearbrook gold rush" by Randolph Bartlett 🍁 (c.1881-1943)
• "The Pullman pirate" by Edmund Vance Cooke 🍁 (1866-1932)
• The strange adventures of Bailey Catford, scientist and inventor (1910, serial) by F. D'A. C. De L'Isle
     [pseud for Arthur Thoby Haverleigh Prinsep, 1862-1938]    [N.B.: Contains language warning.]
• "The wolf boy" (1911 ed) by "Derek Clyde"




1911

• "Back there in the grass" by Gouverneur Morris (1876-1953)
• "The dam" by Lt Hugh S Johnson (1882-1942)
• "Her revenge" by Lurana W Sheldon (1862-1945)
• "The jack of hearts" by Randolph Bartlett 🍁 (c.1881-1943)
• "A kangaroo hunt and its sequel" by anonymous
• "The lodger" [the short story] by Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947)
• "Miss Hinch" by Henry Sydnor Harrison (1880-1930)
• The narrative of Captain Adams : "Detective-Diplomat" by H M Egbert [pseud for Victor Rousseau, 1879-1960]
• "'Q.' A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural" by Stephen Leacock 🍁 (1869-1944), university professor, economist
      (See also the play based on this story.)




1912

• "The horse that educated the children : A Christmas story of the Canadian prairie" by Lyon Sharman 🍁 (1872-1957)
• "The man who found out" by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)




1913

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The evolution of the 'crook' play : Why the public to-day accepts criminals as popular heroes" by George Bronson-Howard (1884-1922)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• The cases of Alice Clement, municipal detective by Alice Clement (1878-1926) & Courtney Ryley Cooper (1866-1940)
• "The crew of No 11" by Ladd Plumley (1862-1927)
• "Duffy" by John A Moroso (1874-1957)
• "Fiddle o' dreams" (1913, 1933 ed) by Arthur Morrison (1863-1945)
• "Fighting for her" by John George Jones (c1870-?)
• "Finnegan" by John A Moroso (1874-1957)
• "The golden queen" by Frank L Pollock 🍁 (1876-1957)
• "The hiding-place" by John H Prentis (1878-1967)
• Lanagan : amateur detective by Edward H Hurlbut (1881-1954), reporter, publicist (in progress)
• "Luck" by Marjorie L C Pickthall 🍁 (1883-1922)
• The mistress of mysteries by Mary E Holland (1868-1915)
• "A psychic venture" by John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)
• Secret Service exploits of Grantham Waldron by John A Moroso (1874–1957), court reporter (in progress)
• "Smoke" by John A Moroso (1874-1957)
• "Society girls are successful sleuths" (1913) by anonymous
• "The stolen plans" and "The mystery of the blue-prints" by "Filipino"
• The unique experiences of an insomniac (part of the "Man who couldn't sleep" series) by Arthur Stringer 🍁 (1874-1950)




1914

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"How psycho-analysis has obsessed the world with sex" by anonymous
"How the clock corrupts modern spiritual values" by anonymous

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "'Bank clerk suicides'" by J P Buschlen [pseud. for Jack Preston] 🍁 (1888-1966)
• "The bowmen" by Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
• "Cinders" by John A Moroso (1874-1957)
• "The crooked teller" by J P Buschlen [pseud. for Jack Preston] 🍁 (1888-1966)
• "The dummy", a precis of the play by Harvey J. O'Higgins 🍁 (1876-1929) and Harriet Ford (1863-1949)
      [N.B.: Contains language warning.]

• "The face in the mirror" by Frank Wall [pseud for Harold de Polo (c1885-1958)]
• "How women are robbed : Some of the simpler methods and how they may be avoided" by William J Burns (1861-1932)
• "In Hell with the dramatists by Randolph Bartlett 🍁 (c.1881-1943)
• "A kangaroo hunt and its sequel" by anonymous
• The miracle man (compact magazine novel) by Frank L. Packard (1877-1942) (in progress)
• "The mystery of seven minutes : a play" by Louis Joseph Vance (1879-1933)
• "Pan" (1914 ed) by Winifred Graham (1873-1950)
• "The pioneers" (1914 ed) by James Fennimore Cooper (1789 – 1851), abbreviated by Irving King




1915

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The angel warriors at Mons" by Ralph Shirley (1865-1946)
"Detective Stories Inspired as Are Poems, So Says Burton E. Stevenson" by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
"Many novelists commercialize sex instincts, says Robert Herrick" by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
"'Movies' improve our fiction, Rex Beach Says" by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
"The psychology of the circus" by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
"Serial system hurts our novels, says George Barr McCutcheon" by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• The Adventures of Detective Barney (1923 ed.) by Harvey O'Higgins 🍁 (1876-1929)
• "'Q' a farce in one act" by Stephen Leacock 🍁 (1869-1944) & and Basil MacDonald Hastings (1881-1928) a play based on the 1911 short story.
• The shooting of Dan McGrew (a novel) by Marvin Dana (1867-1926)
      (See also the 1907 poem which inspired the movie which inspired the novel.)
• "Three-alarm Casey" by John A Moroso (1874-1957)
• When to Lock the Stable (1915 ed.) by Homer Croy (1883-1965) (in progress)
• "The white ships and the red" by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)




1916

• "The fable of a certain king who sought a new pleasure" by Bruce Barton (1886-1967)
• "Leone of the guards" (1916~17) by Beresford Gale (c.1881 - 1935)
• "The Lusitania waits" (1916) by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
• "Nowell : Débussy variations on a Mendelssohn theme" by Randolph Bartlett 🍁 (c.1881-1943)
• Survivors' tales of famous crimes by Walter Wood (1866-1961) (in progress)
• Thieves' Wit (serial, 1916-17) by Hulbert Footner 🍁 (1879-1944)
      [N.B.: Contains language warning.]

• "Three great hoaxes of the war" by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)




1917

• The affair of the blue scarab (1917, 1930 ed) by William A Shryer (1876-1918)
• Canada chaps by Jessie Georgina (J.G.) Sime 🍁 (1868-1958) (in progress)
• The Croyden case by "Police Captain Howard" [pseud for Luis P Senarens (1865-1939)]
• The diabolical portrait" by Randolph Bartlett 🍁 (c.1881-1943)
• "Merry Christmas" by Stephen Leacock 🍁 (1869-1944)
• "The muse of the locked door" by Elsie McCormick Dunn (1894-1962)
• "To the old stage driver" by Lucien M Lewis
• "The window of horrors" by William Drayham [pseud for H L Mencken, 1880-1956]




1918

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"'Boots and beef' heroines and others" by Stephen Leacock 🍁 (1869-1944)
"The serial interest" by Amos R Wells (1862-1933)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• "The brachycephalic bohunkus" by Kennett Harris (1864-1929), British writer of Westerns.
• "Dante's Inferno enacted : A narrative of the explosion at Halifax" (c1918) by John T Gammon 🍁
• "Dido the hero" by Henri Douglass Greer
• Heliotrope (1918-1919) by Isabel Ecclestone MacKay 🍁 (1875-1928)
• "An illustration by a victim of the Halifax Explosion December 6th, 1917" by John T Gammon 🍁
• Jim, the story of a backwoods police dog by Charles G D Roberts 🍁 (1860-1943), poet, nature fictionalist; knighted in 1935
• "On the night express" (1918 ed) by Frédéric Boutet (1874-1941) [translated by William L McPherson (1865-1930)]
• Parnassus at home; or, The haunted bookshop (1918~19) by Christopher Morley (1890-1957)




1919

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The detective story" by Ernest M Poate (1884-1935)
"When the criminal takes to science, and its effect on the fictionist" by Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936)
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"The Paris of the novelists, ch 06 : Sinister streets" by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1873-1946)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• Bulldog Carney by W A Fraser 🍁 (1857-1933) (in progress)
• "Homer's Iliad" by William Fenwick Harris (1868-1923)
• "Homer's Odyssey" by William Fenwick Harris (1868-1923)
• "Secret Service" by F Britten Austin (1885-1941)
• "The stolen story" by Johnston McCulley (1883-1958)
• "The stolen story" by Ernest M. Poate (1884-1935)
• "Virgil's Aeneid" by William Fenwick Harris (1868-1923)




1920

• "The mysterious murder of Myron Goodspeed" by Clarence Budington Kelland (1881-1964)




1921

• "The Christmas Ghost of San Francisco" by Ella Sterling Mighels (1853-1934)
• The Day of Uniting by Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
• "The lizard god" by Charles J Finger (1869-1941)
    [N.B.: Contains language warning.]
• "The second lie : a play in one act" by Isabel Ecclestone MacKay 🍁 (1875-1928)




1922

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The proverbial plot" by A K Tutler

 
• "The body of Blynn Anderson" (1922) by Hubbard Hutchinson (1897-1934)
• "Raising the devil" by Cecil Maitland (c1892-1926)




1923

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"The audibility of the aurora" by C A Chant [Dr Clarence Augustus Chant (1865-1956)]
"My method of writing" by Frank Condon (1882-1940)
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
An Intimate Portrait of R L S [Robert Louis Stevenson] by Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947)

 




1924

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Nanouk l'Esquimau" by anonymous
    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
"Meddling with the occult" by Edward P Mitchell (1852-1927)
  excerpted from Memoirs of an editor: fifty years of American journalism
  (see also The haunted school-house at Newburyport, Mass)

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• The Dickens Encyclopædia by Arthur L Hayward (1885-1967) (in progress)
• "'Now shall our dead keep festival'" by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925)
• "Will you believe it?" by Richard Washburn Child (1881-1935)




1925

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Kipling through smoked glasses" by George A Dorsey (1868-1931)

 




1926

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

"Ventilated villains" by Talbot Short [pseud for William B Corcoran (1901-c1969)]

 
𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 . . .
• Into the void : a bookshop mystery by Florence Converse (1871-1967)




1927

• "Blackstone does his stuff" by E M "Ted" Dealey (1892-1969)
• "Johnny Kelly's Christmas ghost" (1927) by Edwin A Goewey (1871-1930)
• "The killers" by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
• "Little Dombey" by Frank Shay (1888-1954)




1938

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓦𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 . . .

    ↞𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝑽𝒊𝒆𝒘 ↞
A frontier judge : British justice in the earliest days of farthest West by Selwyn Banwell 🍁 (1880-1944)

 

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