• Publication: Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle StoriesPublication Record # 413840
• Editor: Joseph Lewis French
• Date: 1920-00-00
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
• Pages: ix+258
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Contents incomplete. Listing only those stories reviewed in Bleiler, below, or otherwise already in the database. The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive.
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 666
  • LCCN: 21-381
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1870388
  • Reginald-1: 05646

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Foreword (Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Riddle Stories) • essay by Joseph Lewis French
• 3 • The Mysterious Card • [Mysterious Card] • (1896) • short story by Cleveland Moffett
• 76 • The Oblong Box • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 94 • The Birth-Mark • (1843) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 122 • A Terribly Strange Bed • (1852) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 149 • The Torture by Hope • (1894) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883) [as by Villiers de l'Isle Adam]
• 157 • The Box with the Iron Clamps • (1889) • novella by Florence Marryat
• 207 • My Fascinating Friend • (1886) • short story by William Archer
• 232 • The Lost Room • (1858) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien