Tales of Terror and Mystery

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The Horror of the Heights (1)
The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some…
The Horror of the Heights (2)
"These were the thoughts in my head as I climbed that monstrous, inclined plane with the wind sometimes beating in my face and sometimes wh…
The Leather Funnel (1)
My friend, Lionel Dacre, lived in the Avenue de Wagram, Paris. His house was that small one, with the iron railings and grass plot in front…
The Leather Funnel (2)
"No, thank God, I awoke before it really began." "Ah! it is just as well for you. I held out till the third bucket. Well, it is an old stor…
The New Catacomb (1)
"Look here, Burger," said Kennedy, "I do wish that you would confide in me." The two famous students of Roman remains sat together in Kenne…
The New Catacomb (2)
He had lit his lantern, and by its light they were enabled to follow a narrow and devious track which wound across the marshes of the Campa…
The Case of Lady Sannox
The relations between Douglas Stone and the notorious Lady Sannox were very well known both among the fashionable circles of which she was…
The Terror of Blue John Gap (1)
The following narrative was found among the papers of Dr. James Hardcastle, who died of phthisis on February 4th, 1908, at 36, Upper Covent…
The Terror of Blue John Gap (2)
I had taken my matches from my armpit and felt them. They seemed perfectly hard and dry. Stooping down into a crevice of the rocks, I tried…
The Brazilian Cat (1)
It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections, but no actual money in his pocket…
The Brazilian Cat (2)
Thus encouraged, I entered into a long exposition, in which all my tradesmen and creditors from my landlord to my valet, figured in turn. I…
The Brazilian Cat (3)
I was many months in my recovery—in fact, I cannot say that I have ever recovered, for to the end of my days I shall carry a stick as a sig…
The Lost Special (1)
The confession of Herbert de Lernac, now lying under sentence of death at Marseilles, has thrown a light upon one of the most inexplicable…
The Lost Special (2)
"I have been thinking a great deal, and I find it very hard to give you up. The same with Lizzie. I try to fight against it, but it will al…
The Beetle-Hunter (1)
A curious experience? said the Doctor. Yes, my friends, I have had one very curious experience. I never expect to have another, for it is a…
The Beetle-Hunter (2)
"She wished to stay in town for a few more days," said Lord Linchmere. "You know how ladies' social duties accumulate if they have been for…
The Man with the Watches (1)
There are many who will still bear in mind the singular circumstances which, under the heading of the Rugby Mystery, filled many columns of…
The Man with the Watches (2)
"You'll excuse me if I'm not very free with names. There's less reason now than there was five years ago when mother was still living. But…
The Japanned Box (1)
It WAS a curious thing, said the private tutor; one of those grotesque and whimsical incidents which occur to one as one goes through life.…
The Japanned Box (2)
"No, nor I. But if it is the other thing—but there, for a practical business man at the end of the nineteenth century this is rather a ridi…
The Black Doctor (1)
Bishop's Crossing is a small village lying ten miles in a south-westerly direction from Liverpool. Here in the early seventies there settle…
The Black Doctor (2)
Mr. Porlock Carr, the counsel for the prosecution, had marshalled his facts with his usual skill, and as the day wore on, it became more an…
The Jew's Breastplate (1)
My particular friend, Ward Mortimer, was one of the best men of his day at everything connected with Oriental archaeology. He had written l…
The Jew's Breastplate (2)
"No, no, no!" cried Mortimer. "That will never do! Such a man might push his lunacy to the length of destroying a Jewish relic, but why on…