GASLIGHT'S CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF ETEXTS

E.F.Bensons' "The room in the tower" (year?)
(prepared by Katie Warrick and Jerry Drake)

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's "The torture of hope"

G.A. Henty's "Bears and dacoites"
"Pipe of mystery"

Victor Hugo's "A fight with a cannon"

Ernst T.A. [formerly ETW] Hoffmann's "The history of Krakatuk" (year?)

William MacLeod Raine's The hunting of Harry Tracy: The Most Thrilling Man Hunt of Recent Western History (19??)

Arthur Morrison's "The thing in the upper room" (Year?, 1934 ed.)

Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel (year?)

Arthur B. Reeve's "Banshee" from Best Ghost Stories (Year?)

W. Clark Russell's "The extraordinary adventure of a Chief Mate"
Prepared by Hunter J. Peters

Alexander Pushkin's "The Shot" (1830)
(spelled Poushkin) "The Snowstorm" (1830, 1895 ed.)
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)

Thomas Ingoldsby's "The spectre of Tappington" (1840)

H.L. Manse's "Sensation novels"

Charles Dickens's "No. 1 branch line the signal-man" (1866)

Amelia B. Edwards's "No. 5 branch line the engineer" (1866)

Amelia B. Edwards's "The 4.15 express"

Willian Gilbert's "The last lords of Gardonal"

George MacDonald's "The golden key" (1867, this ed.?)

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
"A strange island" [F]
Originally from Morning-Glories, and Other Stories (1868)

J.S. Le Fanu's Haunted lives

Leopold Lewis's The Bells (1871)

J. Sheridan Le Fanu's "Mr. Justice Harbottle" (1872, 1929 ed.)

Daniel Clark's "Photograph of the soul"
Picture of Clark, c. 1900

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant's "The secret chamber" (Dec. 1876)

Hugh Conway's Called back
a.k.a The fatal house (mystery)

Thomas Hardy's "The three strangers" (1883, 1903 ed.)

George MacDonald's "The haunted house" (1883)

Sidney Lanier's Knightly legends of Wales (1884), formerly called Boy's Mabinogion.

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The body-snatchers"
(Prepared by Richard King)

Lafcadio Hearn's "New Orleans superstitions" (1886)

Seranus' "The prisoner Dubois" (1886)

Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla" (1887)

Thomas Nelson Page's "No haid pawn" (1887) Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering.

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The merry men" (1887, 1912 ed.)

Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville ghost" (1887)
(Prepared by Julie Porter)

Charles W. Wood's "Mrs. Henry Wood: in memorian" (Apr/May, 1887)
installment 1, installment 2, and installment 3

M.E.M. Davis's "The soul of Rose Dede" (1888) Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering

James De Mille's A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder (1888)

John Charles Dent's "The Gerrard Street Mystery" (1888 ed.)
"Prefatory sketch about John Charles Dent" by R.W.D. (1888 ed.)

Thomas Hardy's "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion"

Mrs. Oliphant's "The portrait" (1889)

Mrs. Henry Wood's "Reality or delusion?" (1889 ed.)

Jerome K. Jerome's Stage-land

Arthur Conan Doyle's "The straggler of '15" (1891) from the Arthur Conan Doyle Internet discussion group (go there)

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's "A torture by hope"
(Transl. 1891 by M.P. Shiel)

H.G.Wells' "The rediscovery of the unique"

Louisa Murray's "Mr. Gray's strange story"

Agnes Reppier's "The novel of incident"

"A short defense of villains"

Anonymous's "The weird violin"

Jonas Lie's Weird tales from Northern seas (1893 transl.)

George MacDonald's "The fantastic imagination" (1893, 1895 ed.)

Annie Fowler Rothwell's "How it looked at home: a story of '85" (1893)

"A.K. Sims"'s Chicago Charlie's diamond dash (1893).
(Prepared by Virginia Conn.)

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The bottle imp"
(Prepared by Diana Patterson)

E. Nesbit's "Mansize in marble"

Louisa Baldwin's "How he left the hotel"

F. Marion Crawford's "The upper berth"
(Prepared by Eve Behr)

Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo the play. (1894, 1907 ed.) from the Arthur Conan Doyle Internet discussion group. Go there.

Paul Heyse's "Little Lisbeth" (1894 ed.)

L.T. Meade and Clifford Halifax's "The Ponsonby Diamonds"
"Without witnesses"

Thomas Nelson Page's "The burial of the guns"

Kate Chopin's "Her letters"
(Prepared by Deobrah McMillion)

Ralph Adam Cram's "No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince"

Sarah Morgan Dawson's "A tragedy of South Carolina"(1895)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering.)

Arthur Conan Doye's "How the brigadier played for a kingdom" (1895)
(Prepared by Patricia Teter.)

John Meade Falkner's The Lost Stadivarius(1895)

Kenneth Grahame's "The blue Room" (1895)
(Prepared by Bob Champ)

M.P. Shiel's "The case of Euphemia Raphash"

H.G. Wells' Select conversations with an uncle

Madalene Yale Wynne's "The little room"

"A case of conscience"

Bulwer Lytton's "The last days of Pompeii", adapted for dramatic recitation in 1896.

Arthur Morrison's "The case of the Ward Lane Tabernacle"

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant's "The library window"

Vincent O'Sullivan's "On the kind of fiction called morbid"

"The Plattner story"

Louis Becke's "The shadows of the dead"

Miss (Mary) Braddon's "My first book: The trail of the serpent"

Robert Chambers' "The purple emperor"

Arthur Conan Doyle's "My first book: Juvenilia"

C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne's Adventures of Captain Kettle

Richard Marsh's The Beetle (1897, 1917 ed.)

Arthur Conan Doyle's The lost special (1898, 1908 ed.)
(Prepared by Mike Keating)
(With comments by the Gaslight listmembers)

Joseph Conrad's The heart of darkness (1899 serialized edition)
(Prepared by Cindy Kogut)

Ernest Dowson's "Absinthia taetra" and "The Visit"

Jack London's "A thousand deaths"
(Prepared by Klaus Johansen)

Arthur Machen's "The white People" (1899, 1922 ed.)

L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace's The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings

Grant Allen's "Wolverden Tower"

Willa Cather's "The affair at Grover Station"

Stephen Crane's "Manacled"
(Prepared by Klaus Johansen)

Jack London's "Minions of Midas"

T. Bland Strange's "The story of Riel's revolt, Canada: 1885",

Part I
Part II

Frank R. Stockton's "Old Applejoy's Ghost"

L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace's The sorceress of the Strand (1902/03)

B.A. Milburn's Curious cases

Emmuska Baroness Orczy's "Old man in the corner" (1902, 1910 ed.)

Edith Wharton's The Lady's Maid's Bell (1902-nov.)

Mary Wilkins's "The wind in the rose-bush" (1902, 1927 ed.)

W.A. Fraser's "The remittance man: a tale of a prodigal"
"The scoring of the Raja"

D.W. Higgins' "The mystic spring" (1904)
"The duel" (1904)

M.R. James's "The mezzotint" (1904, 1931, 1944)
"Oh whistle and I'll come to you"

Rudyard Kipling's "They"

John Wilson Murray's Memoirs of a great detective (1904)

Charles E. Van Loan
"Tales of the Midnight Club" [F]
(Prepared by Bob Birchard)

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (d. 1936)
"Through the Ivory Gate" [F]
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

Valerie (Yakovlevich) Bryusov [also known as Valery Brussof and Valerii Briusov] (1873-1924)
"The Republic of the Southern Cross" [F] (transl. 1918)

Henry James's "The jolly corner" (c. 1905)

Robert-Houdin's "A conjurer's confessions", extracted from his Memoirs (1906 ed.)

Arthur Train's "A murder conspiracy" (1906)

Anonymous' "How spirits materialize" (c. 1907)

Hereward Carrington's "More tricks of 'spiritualists'"

Stewart Edward White's "The two-gun man" (1907, 1927 ed.)

Perceval Landon's "Thurnley Abbey"

Arthur Symons' "Villiers de L'Isle-Adam"

Arthur Train's "The Lost Stradivarius"

Mrs. Henry Wood's "Ketira the gipsy" (1908 ed.)

Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann "The deserted house" (1909, 1913 ed.)

W.W. Jacobs' "Self help"
"The tollhouse"

Otto Larssen's "The manuscript" (transl. 1909)

B.M. Bowers's "Ananias Green"

William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the ghostfinder

Emmuska Baroness Orczy's "The Fenchurch Street mystery" (1910 ed.)
"The robbery in Phillimore Terrace" (1910 ed.)
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Col. À Court Repington's New wars for old

"The submarine menace"
"The airship menace"

Edith Wharton's "Afterward"

Irvin S. Cobb's "Fishhead"

F. Marion Crawford's "The screaming skull"

M.R. James's "A school story"

Stephen Leacock's Nonsense novels (1911, 1921 ed.)

"Maddened by mystery: or, the defective detective"
"'Q': a psychic pstory of the psupernatural"
"Soaked in seaweed: or, upset in the ocean
"The man in asbestos: an allegory of the future

E. Phillips Oppenheim's Peter Ruff and the double four (1911/12)

Arthur B. Reeve's "The invisible ray"
(Prepared by Bob Champ)
"The white slave"
(Prepared by Bob Champ)

John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir) (1875-1940)
"Space" [F] (1939 ed.)

Anton Chekhov's "The safety match" (1912 ed.)

Joseph Conrad's "Some reflections on the loss of the Titanic"
"Certain aspects of the admirable inquiry into the loss of the Titanic"

William Hope Hodgson's "The derelict"

Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski's Knights of Industry (1912 ed.)

Marie Belloc Lowndes's "The lodger"

Arthur B. Reeve's "The steel door"
(Prepared by Bob Champ)
"The campaign grafters"

Arthur Conan Doyle's "The horror of the heights"
(Prepared by Mike Keating)

H. Rider Haggard's "Smith and the pharoahs" (1912-13)

Isolde Kurz's "Nekropolis" (?, transl. 1913)

Arthur B. Reeve's "The dope fiends" (1913, 1916 ed.)
"The clairvoyants"

Ernest Bramah's "The coin of Dionysius"
"The tragedy at Brookbend cottage"
"The game played in the dark"

John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir) (1875-1940)
"The rime of True Thomas" [F] (1939 ed.)

Joseph Conrad's "Protection of ocean liners" (1914)

Bram Stoker's "The judge's house"

John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir) (1875-1940)
The power-house [F]

Katharine F. Gerould's "Louquier's third act"

Stephen Paget's "Moving pictures"

William Hope Hodgson's Captain Gault

Eugene K. Jones's "Ghost whistle" (c. 1917)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillioin Nering.)

Edward William (E.W.) Thomson's "Red-Headed Windego" (1917 ed.)

Charles E. Van Loan's Buck Parvin and the movies
(Prepared by Robert Birchard)
"Levelling with Elisha"

Valerie (Yakovlevich) Bryusov [also known as Valery Brussof and Valerii Briusov] (1873-1924)
"Protection: a Christmas story" [F] (transl. 1918)

A. Merritt's "The moon pool"
(Prepared by Joe Moudry)

Charles G.D. Roberts'Jim: the story of a backwoods police dog(1918, 1919 ed.)

Bulldog Carney

Joseph Lewis French (ed.) "Some real American ghosts"

Ellen Glasgow's "The past"
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion)

May Sinclair's "The nature of the evidence"

M.P. Shiel's "Arthur Machen" (1925, 1950 ed.)

Athan Chilton's "A curious encounter" (1995) ©