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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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Added 2026-may-14

"Charlotte corday, the political enthusiast" (1841) by by Daniel Wise (1813-1898)

"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 mysterious occurrence in Lambeth" (1855) by G P R James (1799-1860)

"'No Living Voice'" (1872) by Thomas Street Millington (1821-1906?)

"White man's devil-house" (1837) by F Harrison Rankin (1805-1847)


 

Added 2026-apr-30

"A cycling honeymoon, and how it ended" (1902) by J P Coughlan (1875-?)

"The ghost!" (1864) by Rochester

"The great operahouse hold-up" (1901) by J P Coughlan (1875-?)

"The inspector's story" (1900) by J P Coughlan (1875-?)

"The medicine of literature" (1900) by J P Coughlan (1875-?)

"Miss Hinch" (1911) by Henry Sydnor Harrison (1880-1930)

"Murder of the mail-carrier" (1859) by anonymous

"The mysterious photograph" (1901) by anonymous

"One year in Namenia" (1903) By Judith Underwood

"Nanouk l'Esquimau" (1924) by anonymous

"The pot of tulips" (1855) by Fitz-James O'Brien (1826-1862)

"The scientific burglar" (1900) by J P Coughlan (1875-?)


 

Added 2026-apr-27

"The ancient mariner : Coleridge a sham and a fraud" (1870) by anonymous

"'Boots and beef' heroines and others" (1918) by Stephen Leacock 🍁 (1869-1944)

"The bright room at Cranmore" (1850) by anonymous

"The ghost baby" (1890) by Francis Romano Oliphant (1859-1894)

"The man with the nose" (1872) by Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920)

"The old melo-drama" (1883) by H Barton Baker (1836-1906)

"The private detective ; The private inquiry" (1891 ed) by C Haddon Chambers (1860-1921)

"Spooks of the cacti plains" (1901) by O O Ballard [aka, Orlo Otwa Ballard (1868-1948)]
    [N.B.: Contains language warning.]


 

Added 2026-apr-22

Life's fairy tales : "The enchanted portrait" (1892) by John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918)

"'Now shall our dead keep festival'" (1924) by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925)

"Sherlock Holmes as a jealous lover" (1905) by anonymous

Bookishness : "Some remarks on cold-blooded villains" (1892) by Drock

"A strange language" (1893 ed) by Edric Vredenburg (1860-1941)

"Was the Rev. Eleazer Williams Louis xvii?" (1891) by F A S


 

Added 2026-apr-21

"The grim jokist" (1890) anonymous newspaper article

"How he left the hotel" (1894) by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925)

"My night in the museum : A New Year's story" (1906) by P J Tansey

"The proverbial plot" (1922) by A K Tutler

"The shadow on the blind" (1894) by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925)

"The Ticking of the Clock" (1894) by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925) [aka, Mrs. Alfred Baldwin]

"The weird of the Walfords" (1889) by Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925)


 

Added 2026-apr-20

"By Act of Parliament, 6 and 7 Edward 15th, Anno Domini 2041" (1893) by Helen Hoppner Coode

The affair of the blue scarab (1917, 1930 ed) by William A Shryer (1876-1918)

"How men die in battle" (1887) by Frank Wilkeson (1848-1913)

"Joe Matlock as seen in the spirit" [aka, Clark's ghost story] (1882) by Frank Wilkeson (1848-1913)

"Sleep-sight : The prescience of the mind" (1880) by Frank Wilkeson (1848-1913)


 

Added 2026-apr-16

"At large, pt 04 : Humour" (1907) by Arthur C Benson (1862-1925)

"Humor" (1907) by John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)

"The last boat in the lock" (1895) by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)

"My 'Bureau de Crime'" (1893) by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)

"The old house in Bloomsbury" (1880) by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)

"On information received" (1889) by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)

"A scorch with a phantom" (1896) by Chauncey C Brainerd (1874-1922)

"Shipwreck of the Blenden Hall" (1822) by John Pepper

"Story of an old building : The romance of university building in New York" (1893) by Thomas Donnelly

"The strange office of a pin" (1893) by Edith Stewart Drewry (1841-1925)


 

Added 2026-apr-04

"The drummer ghost" [aka, Frightened into it] (1869) by John William de Forest (1826-1906)

"Maia and Ulfheim, a sequel to 'When we dead awaken'" (1900) by L Du Pont Syle (1857-1903)

"The Mystery of the 'Cove House'" (1869) by Frank H Norton (1836-1921)

"The philosophy of the kitten" (1882 ed) by Francis Tiffany (1827-1908)

"The Röntgen ray-der" (1896) by Mr M—

"When Greek meets Greek : A story of the Paris Secret Police" (1872, 1907 transl) from the French of Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908)


 

Added 2026-mar-31

"On the night express" (1918 ed) by Frédéric Boutet (1874-1941) [translated by William L McPherson (1865-1930)]

"The lights of the night express" (1899) by "E K G"


 

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