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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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Added 2026-aug-02

"Crime in fiction" (1890) by Alexander Innes Shand (1832-1907)

"Homer's Iliad" (1919) by William Fenwick Harris (1868-1923)

"Homer's Odyssey" (1919) by William Fenwick Harris (1868-1923)

"Elizabeth Villiers, and the Sailor Uncle" (1821 ed) by Mary Lamb (1764-1847)


 

Added 2026-jul-19

"A hypnotic digression" (1905) by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)

"Mr. 'Iggins' hinvisible cloth" (1905) by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)

"The reign of Bobo III" (1907) by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)

"The Sea Serpent Syndicate" (1904) by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)

"The sound machine" (1906) by Everard Jack Appleton (1872-1931)

"Study of the ancient classics" (1888) by Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1817-1898)


 

Added 2026-jul-13

"James's Danish bride" (1865) by anonymous

"Mr Heaphey's apparition" (1890) by anonymous


 

Added 2026-jul-01

"How did you die?" (1902) by Edmund Vance Cooke 🍁 (1866-1932)

"The Pullman pirate" (1910) by Edmund Vance Cooke 🍁 (1866-1932)


 

Added 2026-jun-10

"The captured Cunarder" (1894) by William H Rideing (1853-1918)

"The embalmed head" (1886) by Walter Edgar McCann

"Hunting him down : A sensation story in four parts" (1860) by Tom Hood [Jr] (1835-1874)

"A mystery solved" (1868) by anonymous


 

Added 2026-jun-03

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

"Apparitions and visions" (1855) by John William Draper (1811-1882)

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

"Inez Valesco : The mystery of the Ochre House murder" (1882) by Vandyke Brown [pseud for Marc Cook] (1853-1882)

"The princess and the elf-king : A Teutonic legend" (1858) by Anna Bache

"The Society for the Better Diffusion of Dynamite" (1894) by anonymous

"An underground tragedy" by C Haddon Chambers (1860-1921)


 

Added 2026-may-15

"The case of the Rev. Isaiah Hodgkins" (1901) by John D Swain (1870-1952)

"The Castlemaine mystery" (1897 ed) by anonymous

"Compressed air : Cheap pneumatic power for San Francisco" (1892) anonymous article

"The demon of the bush : A tale of Albany in its cradle days" (1844) by Emily E Chubbuck [aka, Emily C Judson] (1817-1854)

"High explosives" (1889) by C E B

"In the Devil's name" (1884 ed) from the German, by anonymous

"The paying-teller's story" (1882) by Richard Burleigh Kimball (1816-1892)

"A psychic venture" (1913) by John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922)

"Saved by a telephone" (1888) by Ella Higginson (1861-1940)

"Stanley's story" (1872) by Lewis H Noe (1849-1931)

"Club chatter : 'Three-card trick' modernised" (1897) by The Major


 

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)


 
 

Stories arranged chronologically

 

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