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• Introduction (Mysteries: A Classic Collection) • essay by Giles Gordon
• The Diver • (1927) • short story by A. J. Alan
• The Ghoul of Golders Green • (1923) • novelette by Michael Arlen
• The Murder of the Mandarin • (1907) • short story by Arnold Bennett
• Powers of the Air • (1917) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• Keeping His Promise • (1906) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• Dearth's Farm • (1923) • short story by Gerald Bullett
• The Hammer of God • non-genre • [Father Brown] • (1911) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• The Tiger • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• The Hostelry • (1923) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of L'auberge 1886)
• A Large Diamond • [Jorkens] • (1931) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• The Cupboard • (1922) • short story by Jeffery Farnol
• The Other Sense • (1909) • short story by J. S. Fletcher
• Ghost of Honour • (1936) • short story by Pamela Hansford Johnson
• Roads of Destiny • (1903) • novelette by O. Henry
• The Trapdoor • (1936) • short story by C. D. Heriot
• Ben Blower's Story • (1936) • short story by Charles Fenno Hoffman [as by C. F. Hoffman]
• The Shadow of a Shade • (1869) • short story by Tom Hood
• Guests from Gibbet Island • (1839) • short story by Washington Irving
• The Mezzotint • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• The Dancing Partner • (1928) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• The Woman Who Rode Away • (1925) • novelette by D. H. Lawrence
• Rooum • (1910) • short story by Oliver Onions
• The Green Light • (1897) • short story by Barry Pain
• The Iron Pineapple • (1926) • short story by Eden Phillpotts
• The Queen of Spades • (1927) • short story by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Пиковая дама^?Pikovaya dama
  1834) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• The Seventh Man • (1928) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
• Goat-Cry, Girl-Cry • (1936) • short story by William B. Seabrook [as by W. B. Seabrook]
• The Mahatma's Story • (1924) • short story by May Sinclair
• Deep in the Forest • (1936) • short story by H. de Vere Stacpoole
• The Island of Voices • (1936) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Isle of Voices 1893)
• Man of the Night • (1936) • short story by Edgar Wallace
• Major Wilbraham • (1921) • short story by Hugh Walpole
• A Tale of a Gas-Light Ghost • (1866) • short story by uncredited
• The Confession of Charles Linkworth • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• A Visitor from Down Under • (1926) • short story by L. P. Hartley
• The Voice in the Night • (1907) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• His Brother's Keeper • non-genre • (1922) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• Berenice • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835)
• The Coat • (1934) • short story by A. E. D. Smith
• The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• Presentiments • (unknown) • short fiction by P. C. Wren