David P. Abbott (1863-1934)
"Fraudulent spiritualism unveiled" [N] (1907)

Edmond About (1828-1885)
The Man with the Broken Ear [F] (1862, transl. 1867, 1878 ed.)
(transl. from L'homme à l'oreille cassée (1862)
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)

Achmed Abdullah (pseud. for Alexander Nikolayevitch Romanoff) (1881-1945)
"A simple act of piety" [F] (1918, 1919 ed.)

George Ade (1866-1944)
Fables in slang (1899) [F]
"The Fable of How the Fool-Killer Backed Out of a Contract"
"The Fable of the Coming Champion Who was delayed"
More fables in slang (1900) [F]
"The Fable of the Honest Money-Maker and the Partner of His Joys, Such as They Were"
"The Fable of the Inveterate Joker Who Remained in Montana"

(Prepared by Diana Patterson, et alia)

Max Adeler (Pseud. for Chas. Heber Clark) (1841-1915)
"A desperate adventure" [F] (year?)

James Agate (1877-1947)
from At half-past eight: essays of the theatre, 1921-1922 [N] (1923)
"Art and the screen"
"Some film-emotions and a moral"

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
"Behind the mask, or A woman's power" [F] (1866) (in progress)
published under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard
"A strange island" [F]
Originally from Morning-Glories, and Other Stories (1868)

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
"A Christmas fantasy with a moral" [F] (1891)

Grant Allen (1848-1899)
"My New Year's Eve among the mummies"(1880-jan) [F]
writing as J. Arbuthnot Wilson
"Jerry Stokes" (1891-mar) [F]
"The great ruby robbery: a detective story" (1892-sep) [F]
"Pallinghurst Barrow" (1892-dec) [F]
"Wolverden Tower" [F] (1896-nov, 1900 ed.)
An African millionaire [F] (1897) (in progress)
Miss Cayley adventures [F] (1899) (in progress)

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (d. 1936)
"Through the Ivory Gate" [F] (1905)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

Anonymous
"Vampyres and ghouls" [N] (1871)
"Can a blind man see a ghost?" [N] (1887)
"How spirits materialize" [N] (c. 1907)
"The weird violin" [F] (1893)
Train wreckers betrayed; or, Bob Brooks in Kansas [F] (1893)
"'Sundowners' and other Bush Types" [N], from Temple Bar, vol. 105

F. Anstey (pseud. for Thomas Anstey Guthrie) (1856-1934)
"The talking horse" [F] (1892)
excerpts from The young reciter and model music-hall [F] (1931)
including: "Burglar Bill"; "The Conscience-Curst!";
"The Wreck of the Steamship 'Puffin'"; & "A Forgone Vengeance!"
from A long retrospect [N] (1936)
"Chapter VII: Friends and Acquaintances"

Guillaume Apollinaire
(1880-1918)
"La disparition d'Honoré Subrac" [F] (1910)
English translation by Robert Champ ©

Clifford Ashdown
(pseud. for Dr. R. Austin Freeman & Dr. James Pitcairn
from The further adventures of Romney Pringle [F] (1903)
"The Submarine Boat"

Émile Augier (1820-1889)
Olympe's marriage, a play in three acts [F] (1854, this ed. 1915)
(transl. from Le mariage d'Olympe, by Barrett H. Clark (1890-1953))
Preface and Introduction to Four plays [N] (1915)
Preface by Eugène Brieux (1858-1932)
Introduction by Barrett H. Clark (1890-1953)
"Émile Augier" by Maurice Mauris (?-?)
from French men of letters [N] (1915)

Stacy Aumonier (1887-1928)
"A source of irritation" [F] (1918)

F. Britten Austin (1885-1941)
"An affair of honour" [F] (1923, 1927 ed.)
"The fourth degree" [F] (1924, 1927 ed.)

Mary (Hunter) Austin (1868-1934)
"The walking woman" [F] (1907)

William Austin (1778-1841)
"Peter Rugg, the missing man" [F] (1824) and
"Further account of Peter Rugg" [F] (1826)
An afterword on "Peter Rugg, the missing man" [N] (1937)
by Alexander Woolcott

W.E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun
(1813-1865)
"How we got up the Glenmutchkin railway, and how we got out of it again" [F] (1845-oct)

Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925)
"How he left the hotel" [F] (1894)

To Gaslight's NAPOLEONIC ERA LITERATURE

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Passion in the Desert" [F] (1830, transl. 1891)
(transl. from "Une passion dans le désert")
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)
"El Verdugo" [F] (1830, transl. 1901)
(transl. from "El Verdugo")
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)
"The red house", a.k.a. "The red inn" [F] (1831, transl. 1901)
(transl. from "L'Auberge rouge" by Clara Bell (1834-1927))

Richard Barham
(see: Thomas Ingoldsby)

Jane Barlow (1860-1917)
"How to write a short story: a symposium" [N] (1897)

Robert Barr (1850-1912)
"The Great Pegram Mystery" [F] (1894)
"The Chemistry of Anarchy"
from The face and the mask [F] (1895)
"How to write a short story: a symposium" [N] (1897)
"Canadian literature" [N] (1899-nov/dec)
The triumphs of Eugene Valmont [F] (1906) (in progress)
"How Finley McGillis Held the Pier" [F] (1914-jan)

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
"The stuffed alligator" [F] (1905)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

Rex Beach (1877-1949)
"The Weight of Obligation" [F] (1916)
originally collected in The crimson gardenia, & other tales of adventure (1916)

L. (Lily) Adams Beck (pseud. for Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck) (d. 1931)
"The hatred of the queen: a story from Burma" [F] (1922 ed.)
"The ninth vibration" [F] (1922, 1926 ed.)

Louis Becke (1855-1913)
"Collier: 'The Blackbirder', A tale of the South Pacific labour trade" [F] (1897)
"The shadows of the dead" [F] (1897)
"Saunderson and the dynamite" [F] (1904)
A blackbirding incident" [F] (year?)

William Beckford (1760-1844)
review of "Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of 'Vathek.'"
from North American Review (1860-apr)

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-1870)
"Spirit Mountain [F] (c. 1860-64, this ed. 1907)
transl. from Leyendas, by Cornelia Frances Bates and Katherine Lee Bates
(Prepared by Diana Patterson)

Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
The mauve decade: American life at the end of the nineteenth century [N] (1926)

Edward Bellamy (1850-1898)
The blindman's world, and other stories [F] (1898) (in progress)
inlcuding "A biographical sketch" by William Dean Howells

Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
"The social life of the newt" [F] (1919)
"Do I Hear Twenty Thousand?" [F] (c. 1928)

(Enoch) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
The loot of the cities [F] (1905)
The card: a story of adventure in the Five Towns [F] (1910, 1911 ed.)
(original title: Denry the audacious)
from The matador of the Five Towns, and other stories [F](1912)
"The dog"
"Murder!" [F] (1927)

A.C. (Arthur Christopher) Benson (1862-1925)

E.F. (Edward Frederick) Benson (1867-1940)
"The death warrant" [F]
from Six common things (1894)
"The recent 'witch-burning' at Clonmel" [N] (1895)
"Sheridan Le Fanu" [N] (1931)
(Prepared with assistance from Ruth Jeffries)
"The room in the tower" [F] (year?)
(Prepared by Katie Warrick and Jerry Drake)

Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914)
A Mirror of Shalott: Composed of Tales told at a Symposium [F] (1907)
"Prologue," and "Chapter 13: Mr. Percival's tale"
(prepared with assistance from Fr. John Woolley)

Stella Benson (1892-1933)
"The desert islander" [F] (1930, 1939 ed.)

Walter Besant, Sir, (1836-1901) and James Rice (1843-1882)
"The case of Mr. Lucraft" [F] (1875)

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
"An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" [F] (1891)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)
"The moonlit road" [F] (1893)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

Mme. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky (1831-1891)
"The ensouled violin" [F] (1892)

Steen Steensen Blicher (1782-1848)
"The parson at Vejlby" [F] (year?, 1928 ed.)

Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952)
"Cambric tea" [F] (1928, 1929 ed.)

B.M. (Bertha M.) Bower (1874-1940)
"Ananias Green" [F] (1910)

Miss (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon (1837-1915)
"The cold embrace" [F] (1860)
(Prepared by Eve Behr)
"The Shadow in the Corner" [F] (1879)
"My first book: The trail of the serpent" [N] (1897)


(See also C.H. Hazlewood's dramatic adaptation of Lady Audley's secret)

Ernest Bramah (pseud. for Ernest Bramah Smith) (1869-1942)
"The coin of Dionysius" [F] (1914)
"The tragedy at Brookbend cottage" [F] (1914)
"The game played in the dark" [F] (1914)

Benjamin (Griffith) Brawley (1882-1939)
"The negro in American literature" [N] (1923)

George Ira Brett
"The murder at Jex Farm" [F] (1895)
WARNING: this story has been consigned to S.S. Oblivion

David Brewer (1837-1910) et alia
The world's best orations; from the earliest period to the present time [N] (1901) (in progress)

Eugène Brieux (1858-1932)
See under Émile Augier

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
"Napoleon and the Spectre" [F] (1833, 1925 ed.)
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)

Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920)
"Behold, it was a dream" [F] (1872)
"Under the cloak" [F] (1873 ed.)

A. Roy Brown (1893-1944)
"Bishop of the Eagle Eye [N] (1930)

Valerie (Yakovlevich) Bryusov [also known as Valery Brussof and Valerii Briusov] (1873-1924)
"Protection: a Christmas story" [F] (transl. 1918)
"The Republic of the Southern Cross" [F] (1905, transl. 1918)

John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir) (1875-1940)
"Space" [F] (1912)
"The rime of True Thomas" [F] (1914, 1939 ed.)
The power-house [F] (1916)
A book of journeys and hurried escapes [N] (1925) (in progress)
The gap in the curtain, ch. 1: Whitsuntide at Flambard [F] (1932)
The Island of Sheep, Part one, ch. 4: Haraldsen [F] (1936)

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"The haunted and the haunters" [F] (1859)
"The last days of Pompeii" [F]
adapted for dramatic recitation by Marguerite W. Morton (1896)

Thomas Burke (1887-1945)
"The Chink and the child" [F] (1917)

Richard (Francis) Burton, Sir (1821-1890)
Vikram the vampire [F] (c. 1893) (in progress)

J.P. (John Preston) Buschlen (sometimes used pseud. Jack Preston) (1888-?)
from Behind the wicket: short stories relating to life in the Canadian banks [F] (1914)
"The crooked teller"
"Bank Clerk Suicides"
*at our American website; not for Canadian readers because of presumed copyright*

George W. (Washington) Cable (1844-1925)
"Café des Exilés" [F] (1873)

Gerald M. Carlson
"The adventure of the white plume" [F] ©(1995)

Hereward Carrington (1880-1959)
"More tricks of 'spiritualists'" [N]
*at our American website; not for Canadian readers because of copyright*

Willa Cather (1873-1947)
"The affair at Grover Station" [F] (1900)

"Ralph Centennius" (Pseud. for ?)
"The Dominion in 1983" [F] (1883)

Julius Chambers
"'Seven, seven, seven -- City.' A tale of the telephone" [F] (1903)

Robert W. (William) Chambers (1865-1933)
"The purple emperor" [F] (1897)

Anton (Pavlovich) Chekhov (1860-1904)
"The Safety Match" [F] (1912 ed.)

G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874-1936)

Athan Chilton
"Firefly turning" [F] ©(1993)
"A curious encounter" [F] ©(1995)
"The ballad of Reynardine" [F] ©(1997)

Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
"Desirée's baby" [F] (1893)
collected in Bayou folk (1894)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)
"Her letters" [F] (1895)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)
An Egyptian cigarette" [F] (1897)

Barrett H. Clark (1890-1953)
See under Émile Augier

Daniel Clark (1835-1912)
"Photograph of the soul" [N] (1873)
Picture of Clark, c. 1900

Emma B. Cobb
"What did Miss Darrington see?" [F] (1870)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

Irvin S. (Shrewsbury) Cobb (1876-1944)
"Fishhead" [F] (1911)
"Escape of Mr. Trimm" [F] (1913 ed.)
"Boys will be boys" [F] (1917)
"A plea for Old Cap Collier" [N] (1920, 1940 ed.)
Exit laughing, chapters about Harry Thaw and other trials [N] (1941)

Charles (Allston) Collins (1828-1873)
"No. 3 branch line, the compensation house" [F] (1866)

(William) Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
"American hospitality" [N] (1873, 1900 ed.)
Cases worth looking at [N] (1875 ed.)
  "I. Memoirs of an adopted son" (1861)
 "II. The poisoned meal" (1856)
"III. The caldron of oil" (1861)

Joseph Conrad (pseud. for Teodor Jozef Konrad Natecz Korzeniowski) (1857-1924)
The heart of darkness [F] (1899 serialized edition)
Part One, 1899-feb
Part Two, 1899-mar
Part Three, 1899-apr
(Prepared by Cindy Kogut)
"The duel" [F] (U.S. title: The point of honor) (1908, 1915 ed.)
Reviews of A set of six, including "The duel" [N]
"Some reflections on the loss of the Titanic" [N] (1912)
"Certain aspects of the admirable inquiry into the loss of the Titanic" [N] (1912)
"The inn of two witches" [F] (1913)
(Prepared by Richard King)
"Protection of ocean liners" [N] (1914)
The Rover: introducing the mysterious and lovely Arlette, beside the blue Mediterranean, and sundry rugged heroes of French revolutionary days [F] (1923)
(Prepared by Anders Thulin)

Hugh Conway (Pseud. for Frederick John Fargus) (1847-1885)
"The secret of the Stradivarius" [F] (1881)
Called back [F] (1883)

R.W. D. (Pseud. for ?)
"Prefatory sketch about John Charles Dent" [N] (1888 ed.)

M.E.M. (Mollie Evelyn Moore) Davis (1844/1852-1909)
"The Soul of Rose Dédé" [F] (1888)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)
"At La Glorieuse" [F] (pre-1907)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
"The captain's story" [F] (18??)

Sarah Morgan Dawson (1842-1909)
"A Tragedy of South Carolina", [F] originally from Cosmopolitan (1895-nov)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

John William DeForest (1826-1906)
"The drummer ghost" [F] (approx. 1870)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

James De Mille (1833-1880)
The cord and the creese [F] (1869, 1897 ed.) (in progress)
A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder [F] (1888)
(Prepared by .......?)

John Charles Dent (1841-1888)
"The Gerrard Street Mystery" [F] (1888 ed.)
"Prefatory sketch about John Charles Dent" [N] by R.W.D. (1888 ed.)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"Hunted down" [F] (1859, 1901 ed.)
originally from the New York Ledger (1859-aug-20, 27 & sep-03)
then All the year round (1860-apr-04 & 11)
"No. 1 branch line the signal-man" [F] (1866)
A Christmas carol: the reading [F] (1867, 1868 ed.)
The mystery of Edwin Drood [F] (1870)
"Charles Dickens" by George Orwell [N] (1939, 1940 ed.)

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
"A true story" [F] (1820, 1926 ed.)

Dick Donovan (pseudonym for J.E. Muddock or Preston-Muddock) (1842-1934)
"The problem of Deadwood Hall" [F] (c. 1896)

Lily Dougall (1858-1923)
"Witchcraft" [F] (1895-dec)

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
"The dying of Francis Donne" [F](1896)
"A case of conscience" [F] (1896)
"Absinthia taetra" [F] (1899)
"The visit" [F] (1899)

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (1859-1930)
"John Barrington Cowles" [F] (1886)
"The ring of Thoth" [F] (1890)
(Prepared by Mike Keating)
The Great Shadow [F] (1892)
"Lot no. 249", periodical version compared to book edition [F] (1892-oct, etc.)
periodical version only
"A foreign Office Romance" [F] (1894-nov, 1903 ed.)
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)
The parasite [F] (1894)
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard [F] (1896)
"How the Brigadier Played for a Kingdom" (orig. 1895-dec)
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)
"My first book: Juvenilia" [N] (1897)
Uncle Bernac [F] (1897)
"The lost special" [F] (1898, 1908 ed.)
(Prepared by Mike Keating)
(With comments by the Gaslight listmembers)
"The horror of the heights" [F] (1913)
(Prepared by Mike Keating)

Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)
Mr. Dooley ...
"On criminal trials" [F] (c. 1909-1914)

Gaslight's Amelia B. Edwards page [N].

Amelia B. (Amelia Ann Blandford) Edwards (1831-1892)
"How the Third Floor knew the Potteries" [F] (1863)
[a.k.a. "Number Three"]
"Another past lodger relates his own ghost story" [F] (1864)
(a.k.a. "The phantom coach" or "The North Mail")
"No. 5 branch line: the engineer" [F] (1866)
[a.k.a. "An engineer's story"]
"The 4.15 express" [F] (1867)
A service of danger [F] (1873)

George Eliot (pseud. for Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880)
"The lifted veil" [F] (1859, 1908 ed.)

Emil Erckmann (1822-1899) & Alexander Chatrian (1826-1890)
(see also Leopold Lewis's dramatic adpatation of "Le juif polonais" as The bells)
"The child stealer" [F] (1867)

Robert Eustace (pseud. for Dr. Eustace Robert Barton) (1854-1943)
See collaborations with L.T. Meade
See collaborations with Edgar Jepson

John Meade Falkner (1858-1932)
The Lost Stradivarius [F] (1895)

Frederick John Fargus
see pseud. Hugh Conway.

F. (Francis) Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
See Zelda Fitzgerald

John D. (Daniel) Fitzgerald (1862-1922)
Studies in Australian crime [N] (1924) (in progress)

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
"Our Own Movie Queen" [F] (1925-jun)
(probably concluded by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Charles Foleÿ (1861-?)
see writing partner André de Lorde

Sewell Ford (1868-1946)
Torchy, Private Sec. [F] (1915) (in progress)

G.F. Forrest (?-?)
"The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace" [F] (1905)

Mary Fortune (using pseud. "Waif Wander") (c.1833-1910?)
"Traces of crime" [F] (1865)
(Prepared by Lucy Sussex)
My lodger [F] (1870)
The white maniac: a doctor's tale [F] (1912)
(Prepared by Lucy Sussex)

W.A. (William Alexander) Fraser (1859-1933)
"The remittance man: a tale of a prodigal" [F] (1904)
"The Scoring of the Raja" [F]
from Brave hearts(1904)
Bulldog Carney [F] (1919) (in progress)

Harold Frederic (1856-1898)
"How to write a short story: a symposium" [N] (1897)

Dr. R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman (1862-1943)
(See also "Clifford Ashdown")
"The Moabite cipher" [F] (1909)
"The case of the white footprints" [F] (C. 1920)
"A mystery of the sand-hills"
"The Art of the Detective Story" [N] (1924) [F]
originally from The puzzle lock (1927)

Joseph Lewis French, ed. (1858-1936)
"Some real American ghosts" [N] (1919)

Jacques Futrelle (1875-1912)
"The Problem of 'Dressing-Room A.'" [F] (year?)
"The Problem of Cell 13" [F] (1907)

Elizabeth (Cleghorn) Gaskell (1810-1865)
"The Old Nurse's Story" [F] (1852, 1906 ed.)

Katharine F. (Fullerton) Gerould (1879-1944)
"Louquier's third act" [F] (1916)

W.S. (William Schwenk) Gilbert (1836-1911)
"My maiden brief" [F] (1863-dec)

William Gilbert (1804-1890)
"The last lords of Gardonal" [F] (1867)

Guy Gilpatric (1896-1950)
Mr. Glencannon [F] (1929-1956)

Ellen (Anderson Gholson) Glasgow (1873-1945)
"The past" [F] (1920)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion)
"The shadowy third" [F] (1923)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion)

Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
"Trifles [F] (1916)
"A jury of her peers" [F] (1917)

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
from The Golden Age [N] (1895)
"The blue room"

Robert Grant (1852-1940)
"Against his judgment" [F] (year?)

C.L. Graves (1856-1944)
(see also H.G. Pozzuoli)

Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)
from A difficult problem, The staircase at the Heart's Delight, and other stories [F] (1900)
"The staircase at Heart's Delight"
"Midnight at Beauchamp Row"

B.C.L. (Benjamin Lease Crozer [sic])Griffith (1869-1900)
"The soldier's return" [F] (1896)

Maj. Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908)
The Rome express [F] (1886)

Augusta Groner (often published under August Groner) (1850-1929)
"The story in the notebook" [F](1909 ed.)

H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard (1856-1925)
"Smith and the pharoahs" [F] (1912-13)

Rev. Edward Everett Hale (1863-1932)
"My double and how he undid me" [F] (1859)

Lucretia P. (Peabody) Hale (1820-1900)
"The Peterkins celebrate the 'Fourth'" [F] (1886)

Clifford Halifax (pseud. for Dr. Edgar Beaumont) (1860-1921)
See collaborations with L.T. Meade

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
"The thieves who couldn't stop sneezing" [F] (1877)
"A tradition of eighteen hundred and four" [F] (1882, 1912 ed.)
"The three strangers" [F] (1883, 1903 ed.)
"The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" [F] (1889)

Charles G. (George) Harper (1863-1943)
"How the city treasures were saved" [N] (1924)
from More queer things about London

Bret Harte (1836-1902)
stories of John Oakhurst, the gambler
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" [F] (1868)
"A passage in the life of Mr. John Oakhurst" [F] (1903)
"The outcasts of Poker Flat" [F] (1869)
"The stolen cigar-case" [F] (1902)

John Berwick Harwood (1828-1886?)
"Horror: a true tale" [F] (1861)

C.H. (Colin Henry) Hazlewood
dramatic adaptation of Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's secret [F] (1863)

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
"The cedar closet" [F] (1874, 1924 ed.)
"A strange tale of cannibalism" [N] (1882, 1925 ed.)
"'A ghost story'" [N] (1884, 1925 ed.)
"Theosophy" [N] (1884, 1925 ed.)
"Modern superstition" [N] (1884, 1925 ed.)
"The last of the Voudoos" [N] (1885, 1924 ed.)
"New Orleans superstitions" [N] (1886)
Kwaidan [F] (1904)

To Gaslight's Not the Sherlock Holmes page: selected Gaslight parodies and pastiches

O. Henry (pseud. for William Sidney Porter) (1862-1910)
Sixes and sevens [F] (1911)
"The sleuths"
"The adventures of Shamrock Jolnes"
"Holding up a train" and "The story of holding up a train"

G.A. Henty (1832-1902)
"Bears and dacoites" [F] (Year?)
"Pipe of mystery" [F] (Year?)
The young colonists: A story of the Zulu and Boer Wars [F] (year?)
Henty bibliography

D.W. (David Williams) Higgins (1834-1917)
"The mystic spring" [N] (1904)
"The duel" [N] (1904)

Robert (Smythe) Hichens (1864-1950)
"How Love Came to Professor Guildea" [F] (1900)
(Prepared by Eve M. Behr)

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918)
"The voice in the night" [N] (1907-nov)
Carnacki the ghostfinder [F] (1910)
(partially prepared by Eve M. Behr)
"The derelict" [F] (1912)
Captain Gault [F] (1917)
"Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani" [F] (1919-sep-20)
Originally published as "The Baumoff Explosive"
(Prepared by Andy Robertson)

Ernst T.A. Hoffmann [formerly E.T.W. Hoffmann] (1776-1822)
"The history of Krakatuk" [F] (year?)
"The Sand-man" [F] (1817, 1855 ed.)
"The Cremona violin" [F] (c. 1817)
"The deserted house" [F] (1909, 1913 ed.)

E.W. Hornung (1866-1921)
from Raffles: further adventures of the amateur cracksman [F] (1905) (in progress)
"The knees of the gods"
Stingaree [F] (1905, 1909 ed.) (in progress)

Harry Houdini (pseud. for Ehrich Weiss) (1874-1926)
Confessions of a jail-breaker, and a few asides on handcuffs and strait-jackets [N] (1919)
See also H.P. Lovecraft for "Imprisoned with the pharoahs" [F] (1924), a ghost-written story

Emerson Hough (1857-1923)
"Science at Heart's Desire" [F] (c. 1905)
probably from Heart's Desire : the story of a contented town, certain peculiar citizens, and two fortunate lovers (1905)

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
"A biographical sketch" of Edward Bellamy [N] (1898)

Walter Hubbell (1851-?)
The haunted house, a true ghost story: being an account of the mysterious manifestations that have taken place in the presence of Esther Cox, the young girl who is possessed of devils, and has become known throughout the entire Dominion as the great Amherst mystery [N] (1879)

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
"A fight with a cannon" (1927 ed.)
originally from the novel Quatre-Vingt Treize (transl. as Ninety-Three),
(Book 2, Chapters III-conclusion, IV, V, and VI)

E.M. (Edith Maude Winstanley) Hull (18??-194??)
The sheik (1919, 1922 ed.)

C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1866-1944)
Adventures of Captain Kettle [F] (1897, 1898 ed.) (in progress)
The Escape Agents [F] (1910)
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)

Thomas Ingoldsby (pseud. for Richard Barham) (1788-1845)
"The spectre of Tappington" [F] (1840)
"Mrs. Botherby's story: The leech of Folkestone" [F] (c. 1840)

"Ingulphus" (pseud. for Sir Arthur Gray) (?- ?)
"The Everlasting Club" [F] (1919)
(Prepared by Len Roberts

W.W. Jacobs (1863-1943)
"The monkey's paw" [F] (1902, 1906 ed.)
"Self help" [F] (1909)
"The tollhouse" [F] (1909)

Henry James (1843-1916)
"The jolly corner" [F] (1905)
"The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France: A Letter to the Editor of an American Journal" [N] (1914, 1918 ed.)
from Within the rim, and other essays, 1914-15 (1918)

M.R. James (1862-1936)
"The mezzotint" [F] (1904)
"Oh whistle and I'll come to you" [F] (1904)
"A school story" [F] (1911)

Herbert (George) Jenkins (1876-1923)
excerpts from Malcolm Sage, detective [F] (1921)
"The stolen admiralty memorandum"
"The holding up of Lady Glanedale"
"The missing heavyweight"
"The Gylston slander"

Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) and Robert Eustace (1854-1943)
(see also Robert Eustace for more collaborations)
"The tea-leaf" [F] (1925)

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
Playwriting: a handbook for would-be dramatic authors [N] (1888)
Stage-land [N] (1890, unknown ed.)

E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionawake) (1861-1913)
"Her Majesty's Guest" [F]
from The Moccasin Maker (1913)
(prepared by Andrew Sly)
"The Two Sisters" and "Siwash Rock" [F]
from Legends of Vancouver (1913, 1920 ed.)

Eugene K. Jones
"Ghost whistle" [F] (c. 1917)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

Ellen (Carolina Sofia) Key (1849-1926)
"The war and the sexes" [N] (1916)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
"The ship that found herself" [F] (1895)
"The devil and the deep sea" [F] (1898)
"They" [F] (1904)
"Rudyard Kipling" by George Orwell [F] (1942-feb)

Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski (1840-1895)
"Knights of Industry" [F] (1912 ed.)

Isolde Kurz (1853-1944)
"Nekropolis" [F] (?; transl. 1913)

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940)
"The outlaws" [F] (?; transl. 1909)
(Translated by Grace Isabel Colbron (1869-1943/8?))

Perceval Landon (1869-1927)
"Thurnley Abbey" [F] (1908)

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
The book of dreams and ghosts [N] (1897)
from Historical mysteries [N] (1904)
"The case of Elizabeth Canning"

Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
Knightly legends of Wales [F] (1884), (in progress)
formerly called the Boy's Mabinogion.

Otto Larssen
"The manuscript" [F] (transl. 1909)

Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
Nonsense novels [F] (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
from Essays and literary studies [N] (1916)
"IV.--American Humour"
Frenzied fiction [F] (1919)
• The errors of Santa Claus
• Merry Christmas
"The man in asbestos: an allegory of the future [F] (year?)

Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941)
The exploits of Arsène Lupin [F] (1907 ed.) (in progress)
(translated by Alexander Teixera de Mattos)
The confessions of Arsène Lupin [F] (1912. 1913 ed.) (in progress)
(translated by Alexander Teixera de Mattos)

Vernon Lee (pseud. for Violet Paget) (1856-1935)
"Amour Dure: passages from the diary of Spiridion Trepka" [F] (1887)
"Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady" [F] (1896)
"Marsyas in Flanders" [F] (1900)

J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873)
"The watcher" [F] (1851) (a plain text file)
(prepared by Patricia Teter)
see also a revised version: "The familiar"
"An account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street" [F] (1853)
see also a revised version: "Mr. Justice Harbottle" (1872)
Haunted lives [F] (1868)
(Proofread by Robert Garni)
Stories from In a glass darkly ** (1872, 1929 ed.)
"Green tea" (a plain text file)
(prepared by Eve M. Behr)
"Carmilla" (a plain text file)
"Mr. Justice Harbottle"
a revision of "Aungier Street"
"The familiar"
a revision of "The watcher"
"The room in the Dragon Volant"

R.C. (Rudolf Chambers) Lehmann (1856-1929)
as Cunnin Toil
The adventures of Picklock Holes [F] (1893-94)
(in progress)

Alexander Leighton, editor (1800-1874)
excerpts from Wilson's Tales of the borders and of Scotland [F] (1869 ed.) (in progress)

Anna Leonowens (1831/34-1915)
"The favorite of the harem" [N]
from the Atlantic monthly (1872-sep)

William Le Queux (1864-1927)
The count's chauffeur: A Series of Complete Stories [F] (1906)
Appearing in Cassell's magazine
"No. 1: A move on the 'Forty'"
"No. 2: A sentimental swindle"
"No. 3: The story of a secret"
"No. 4: A run with Rosalie"
"No. 5: The six new novels"
"Bela Kiss" [N] (year?)

Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon [F] (1840-41)
Ch. LXXXVIII: "Patrick's Day in the Peninsula"
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)

Mary Lewes (?-?)
Witchcraft and wizardry in Wales [N] (1923)

Lloyd Lewis (1891-1949)
"The 'Coney' men" [N] (1929)

Leopold Lewis (1828-1890)
The bells [F] (1871)
adapted from "Le juif polonais" by Erckmann Chatrian

Jonas Lie (1833-1908)
Weird tales from Northern seas [F] (1893 transl.)
(translated from the Danish by R. Nisbet Bain)

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"The Trailor murder mystery" [N], originally from the Illinois Whig (1846-Apr-15).

William J. Locke (1863-1930)
"A Christmas mystery: the story of three wise men" [F] (1910, 1923, ed.)

Jack London (1876-1916)
"A thousand deaths" [F] (1899)
(Prepared by Klaus Johansen)
"Minions of Midas" [F] (1900)

André de Lorde (1870/74-1942) and Charles Foleÿ (1861-?)
"At the telephone" [F] (1902, transl. 1925)
(prepared with the assistance of Phœbe Wray and Patricia Teter)

H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (1890-1937)
"Imprisoned with the pharoahs" by Harry Houdini [F] (1924-may)
actually ghost-written by Lovecraft
"Supernatural horror in literature" [N] (1927, 1933-1935)

Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947)
"The lodger" [F] (1912)
"Popeau Intervenes" [F] (1926, 1929 ed.)

Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
"The phial of dread" [F] (1859-nov)
"The taxidermist" [F] (1861-jan)
"The music essence" [F] (1861-dec-31)
all were prepared by Bob Champ

E.V. Lucas (1868-1938)
(see also H.G. Pozzuoli)
from A little of everything (1912) [N] (1912)
"Dan and Paul"
from Cloud and silver [N] (1916)
"On Bellona's hem, pt. 5: Laughter in the Trenches"

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
see Bulwer-Lytton

R.K. M. (pseud. for R.K. (Richard Kendall) Munkittrick) (1853-1911)
"The Sign of the '400': being a continuation of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes [F] (1894)
(Prepared by Adrian Nebbett)

George MacDonald (1824-1905)
"The golden key" [F] (1867, this ed.?)
"The haunted house" [F] (1883)
"The fantastic imagination" [N] (1893, 1895 ed.)

Arthur Machen (?-?)
"The white people" [F] (1899, 1922 ed.)
"The Bowmen" [F] (1914)
introduction to "The Bowmen" [N] (1915)
"Arthur Machen" [N] (1925, 1950 ed.) by M.P. Shiel

Newton MacTavish (?-?)
"An unposted letter" [F] (1901)

H.L. Manse (?-?)
"Sensation novels" [N] (1863)

Richard Marsh (?-?)
The Beetle [F] (1897, 1917 ed) (in progress)

Maria Marten
The Mystery of the Red Barn [N] (mostly 1828) (in progress)

Guy de Maupassant
"The Horla" [F] (1887)

W.H. Maxwell (1792-1850)
The Bivouac, or Stories of the Peninsular War ** (1837)
Ch. VI: "The Storm of Badajoz"
(Prepared by Patricia Teter)

P. G. McColl
The Sting of Conscience [F] (1898/99)
(Prepared by Toni Johnson-Woods)

L.T. Meade (Elisabeth "Lillie" Thomasina Meade Smith) (1854-1915)

L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace (1854-1943)
(see also collaboration with Clifford Halifax, listed below)
(see also Robert Eustace for more collaborations)
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [F] (1899)
The sorceress of the Strand [F] (1902/03) (in progress)

L.T. Meade and Clifford Halifax (1860-1921)
(see also collaboration with Robert Eustace, listed above)
(see also Clifford Halifax)
from Stories from the Diary of a Doctor [F] (1894)
"Without witnesses"
"The Ponsonby diamonds"

Herman Melville
"The bell-tower" [F] (1855, 1856 ed.)
(prepared by Bob Champ)

Sutherland Menzies (fl. 1838-1883)
"Hugues the wer-wolf" [F] (1838-sep)

B.A. Milburn
Curious cases [N] (1902) (in progress)

Gouverneur Morris (1876-1953)
"The Crocodile" [F] (1905)
*at our American website; not for Canadian readers because of copyright*
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

Arthur Morrison (1863-1945)
"The case of the Ward LaneTabernacle" [F] (1896)
The Dorrington deed-box [F] (1897)
ch. 1: "The narrative of Mr. James Rigby"
ch. 2: "The case of Janissary"
ch. 4: "The affair of the 'Avalanche Bicycleand Tyre, Co., Ltd.'"
(in progress)
"How to write a short story: a symposium" [N] (1897)
"The thing in the upper room" [F] (Year?, 1934 ed.)

Katherine Prescott Moseley
"The story Vinton heard at Mallorie" [F] (1918)
*at our American website; not for Canadian readers because of presumed copyright*

J.E. Muddock or Preston-Muddock (1842-1934)
see Dick Donovan

John Wilson Murray
Memoirs of a great detective [N] (1904) (in progress)

Louisa Murray (?-?)
"Mr. Gray's strange story" [F] (1892)

Rev. R.T. (Robert Taylor) Nabors (1850-1884)
"The great assassination" [N] (1881, 1888 ed.)

E. Nesbit (1858-1924)
"Man-size in marble" [F] (1893)
"Uncle Abraham's Romance" [F] (1893)
(Prepared by Robert Champ)

Charles Nodier (1780-1844)
"Inès de Las Sierras" [F] (1838, 1912 ed.)

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant (1828-1897)
"The secret chamber" [F] (Dec. 1876)
A beleaguered city, being A Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne [F] (1879, 1900 ed.)
A Story of the Seen and the Unseen
"The portrait" [F] (1889)
"The open door" [F] (1889 ed.)
"The library window" [F] (1896)

E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946)
Peter Ruff and the double four [F] (1911/12)
Curious happenings to the Rooke legatees [F] (1935, 1938 ed.) (in progress)

Emmuska Baroness Orczy (1865-1947)
"The Fenchurch Street mystery" [F](1910 ed.)
"The robbery in Phillimore Terrace" [F] (1910 ed.)
"Old man in the corner" (in progress) [F] (1902, 1910 ed.)
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard [F] (1910, 1926 ed.) (in progress)
"The murder in Saltashe Woods" [F] (1903)
The Man in Grey; being episodes of the Chouan conspiracies in Normandy during the first empire [F] (1918) (in progress)
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel [F] (1919) (in progress)
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel [F] (1929) (in progress)

George Orwell (1903-1950)
various literary criticisms

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868/1872?-1940)
from A book of bargains [F] (1896)
"When I was dead"
"The business of Madame Jahn"
"The bargain of Rupert Orange"
"On the kind of fiction called morbid" [N] (1896)
from Savoy
"Interval" [F] (1917)
from the Boston Transcript

Rodrigues Ottolengui (1861-1937)
short stories about Barnes and Mitchel [F] (1895)
"The nameless man"
"The Azteck opal"
"The Montezuma emerald"
"A singular abduction, in draft"

Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922)
"No haid pawn" [F] (1887)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)
"The burial of the guns" [F] (1894)

Stephen Paget (1855-1926)
"Moving pictures" [N] (1916)

D.H. Parry (?-?)
"Waterloo" [N] (c. 1900)

Edmund Pearson (1880-1937)
Dime novels; or, Following an old trail in popular literature [N] (1929)
"Blunders in Print: Some of the Great Calamities, Oddities, and Strokes of Malice Perpetrated by Word-mauling Type-Setters or Numskull Reporters" [N] (1935)
"That Damned Fellow Upstairs" [N] (year?)

Max Pemberton (1863-1950)
"The ripening rubies"
from Jewel mysteries I have known [F] (1894)

Charles Perrault (1628-1703)
"La Barbe Bleu" [F] (1865 ed.)

Marjorie Pickthall (1883-1922)
"Luck" [F] (1913)
"The men who climbed" [F] (192?)

Dr. James Pitcairn (1860-1936)
(see also "Clifford Ashdown")

Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849)
"A tale of the ragged mountains" [F] (1844)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)

William Sidney Porter
see pseud. O. Henry

H.G. Pozzuoli
(pseudonym for C.L. Graves (1856-1944) & E.V. Lucas (1868-1938)
The war of the Wenuses ("translated from the Artesian") [F] (1898)

Hesketh V. Prichard (1876-1922)
November Joe: detective of the woods [F] (1913) (in progress)
(Prepared by Jim St. Andre, Ron Smyth, et al.)

Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard (1851-1935) and Hesketh V. Prichard (1876-1922)
(writing as E. and H. Heron)
"Don Quebranta Huesos: A tale of southern Spain" [F] (1898-jan)
Real ghost stories [F] (1898-99) (in progress)

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
(from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin [F] (1830)
"The Shot"
"The Blizzard" (a.k.a. "The snowstorm")

"Q" (pseud. for Arthur T. Quiller-Couch) (1863-1944)
The Laird's Luck and other Fireside Tales [F] (1901)
"Three Men of Badajos"

Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (1871-1938) & (1873-1944)
Fortunato [F] (year?, transl. 1928)
Translated by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker (?-1950) & (1877-1946)
with an introduction by them.

Charles Reade (1814-1884)
"The Knightsbridge mystery" [F] (1884)
"The history of an acre" [N] (1884)
"Charles Reade" by George Orwell [N] (1940-aug-17)

Thomas B. Reed (1839-1902), et alia
Modern eloquence, vol. X: Anecdotes, indices [N] (1900) (in progress)
Anecdotes and illustrations

Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936)
Craig Kennedy in
"The invisible ray" [F] (1911)
"The white slave" [F] (1911)
"The campaign grafters" [F] (1912)
"The steel door" [F] (1912)
Constance Dunlop in
"The clairvoyants" [F] (1913)
"The dope fiends" [F] (1913, 1916 ed.)
(The majority were prepared by Bob Champ)
"Banshee" [N] from Best Ghost Stories (year?)

Col. À Court Repington (1858-1925)
New wars for old [N] (1910)
"The submarine menace"
"The airship menace"
"A reply to critics"

Agnes Repplier (1858-1950)
"The novel of incident" [N] (1892)
"A short defense of villains" [N] (1892)

Harrison Rhodes (1871-1929)
"Extra men" [F] (1918)

James Rice (1843-1882)
(see: Sir Walter Besant)

J. Ewing Ritchie (1820-1898)
from To Canada with the emigrants: a record of actual experiences [N] (1885)
"Amongst the cow-boys"

Robert-Houdin (1805-1871)
extracted from his Memoirs [N] (1906 ed.)
"A conjurer's confessions"

Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943)
Jim: the story of a backwoods police dog [F] (1918, 1919 ed.) (in progress)

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"The wendigo" [N] (1932 ed.)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
"Saint Agnes of intercession" [F] (year?)

Annie Fowler Rothwell (1837-1927)
"How it looked at home: a story of '85" [F] (1893)

John Russell (1885-1956)
"The fourth man" [F] (1917)
*at our American website; not for Canadian readers because of copyright*

W. Clark Russell (1844-1911)
"The Hinda mystery" [F] (1893-oct)
(Prepared by John Addy)
"The phantom death" [F] (1893-94?)
"The extraordinary adventure of a Chief Mate" [F] (Year?)
(Prepared by Hunter J. Peters)

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)
Anatol: a play [F] (c. 1901, this transl. year?)

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
"The tapestried chamber" [F] (1828, 1901, ed.)
"Wandering Willie's tale" [F] (1832, 1894 ed.)

"Seranus" (pseud. for S. Frances Harrison) (1859-1935)
"The prisoner Dubois" [F] (1886)

M.P. Shiel (1865-1947)
Shiel's translation of Villier de l'Isle Adam's "A torture by hope" [F] (Transl. 1891)
"Arthur Machen" [N] (1925, 1950 ed.)

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

May Sinclair (1863-1946)
"The nature of the evidence" [F] (1923)

Charles M. (Montgomery) Skinner (1852-1907)
Myths and legends of our own land [N] (1896)
Vol. 2, Pt. 2: Lights and shadows of the South

Ernest Bramah Smith
see Ernest Bramah

Frank H. Spearman (1859-1937)
"The McWilliams Special"
From The Nerve of Foley [F] (1900)
(Prepared by Jesse Knight)
"The run of the Yellow Mail"
from Held for Orders [F] (1901)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
"What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them?" [N] (1936)

Francis Stevens (pseud. for Gertrude Barrows Bennett) (1884-1939/48?)
"Friend Island [F] (1918)
Citadel of fear [F] (1918) (in progress)
"Unseen -- unfeared" [F] (1919)

Robert Louis (orig. Lewis) Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894)
"The merry men" [F] (1877, 1912 ed.)
"The body-snatchers" [F] (1884)
(Prepared by Richard King)
"The bottle imp" [F] (1893)
(Prepared by Diana Patterson)

Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902)
"Old Applejoy's ghost" [F] (1900)

Bram (Abraham) Stoker (1847-1912)
"The secret of growing gold" [F] (c. 1897)
"The judge's house" [F] (1914)

T. Bland Strange (1831-1925)
"The story of Riel's revolt, Canada: 1885" [N],
Part I
Part II

Alan Sullivan (1868-1947)
The Passing of Oul-i-but, and other tales [F] (1913) (in progress)
including:
"The Passing of Oul-i-but"
"The cycle of the north"
"The bush fire"
"The last patrol"

Sidney Sutherland (1888-?)
"The mystery of the pencil factory" [N] (1929)

Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
"Villiers de L'Isle-Adam" [N] (1908)

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
"The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan" [F] (1839-40)
(from The New Monthly Magazine
Novels by Eminent Hands [F] (1847)
"Phil Fogarty: A Tale of the Fighting Onety-Oneth by Harry Rollicker"
"The second funeral of Napoleon" [N] (1841, 1874 ed.)
"by Michael Angelo Titmarsh"
"The rose and the ring" [F] (1854, 1902 ed.) "by M.A. Titmarsh"
Little Travels and Road-Side Sketches (year?)
"Waterloo"

Edward William (E.W.) Thomson (1849-1924)
"The Swartz diamond" [F] (1917 ed.)
"Red-headed Windego" [F] (1917 ed.)

Michael Angelo Titmarsh
(pseud. for William Makepeace Thackeray)

Arthur Train (1875-1945)
"A murder conspiracy" [N] (1906)
"The lost Stradivarius" [N] (1908)

G. (George) Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962)
"If Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo" [N] (1907, 1926 ed.)
*at our American website; not for Canadian readers because of copyright*

Ivan Turgenyev (1818-1883)
"'Faust' a story in nine letters" [F] (1855, 1905 ed.)

Mark (1835-1910)
"A ghost story" [F] (1875)
"Mark Twain -- the licensed jester" by George Orwell [N] (1943-nov-26)

Kathleen Tynan (?-?)
"New books: war poets and others" [N] (1916)

S.S. Van Dine (pseud. for Willard Huntington Wright) (1888-1939)
"Twenty rules for writing detective stories" [N] (1928)

Charles E. (Emmett) Van Loan (1876-1919)
"Tales of the Midnight Club" [F] (1904)
(Prepared by Robert Birchard)
"Scrap Iron" [F] (1915)
from Buck Parvin and the movies [F] (1917)
(Prepared by Robert Birchard)
"Levelling with Elisha" [F] (1917)
(Prepared by Robert Birchard)

Jules Verne (1828-1905)
The blockade runners [F] (1865, 1876 ed.)
(translated from Les forceurs de blocus)

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1838-1889)
from Les contes cruels [F] (1880, transl. 1883)
"Olympe and Henriette"
"Celestial advertising"
"The secret of the old music"
"The desire to be a man"
"Vera"
(most were prepared by Laurence Roberts)
from Nouveaux contes cruels [F] (1888)
"A torture by hope"
(Transl. 1891 by M.P. Shiel)
"The torture of hope"
[N.B. - These are different translations of the same story.]
"Villiers de L'Isle-Adam" [N] (1908) by Arthur Symons

"Waif Wander"
pseud. for Mary Fortune

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847)
a page about this artist, forger, poisoner. [N]

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
The four just men [F] (1905, 1920 ed.)
The road to London [F] (1926)
"A ghost walker" [F] (1928)
Sanders of the River bibliography (1911-28)

Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913)
"An ulm" [F] (year?)

Carolyn Wells (1869/70-1942)
"Christabel's crystal" [F] (1905)
(Prepared by Andrea Davies)
The Technique of the Mystery Story [N] (1913)
Introduction by J. (Joseph) Berg Esenwein (1867-1946)

H.G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866-1946)
The chronic argonaut [F] (1888)
"The rediscovery of the unique" [N] (1891)
Select conversations with an uncle [F] (1895)
"The Plattner story" [F] (1896)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
"The Lady's Maid's Bell" [F] (1902)
"Afterward" [F] (1910)
"Kerfol" [F] (1916)
"The pomegranate seed" [F] (1931)

Edward Lucas White (1866-1934)
"The house of nightmare" [F] (1906)
(Prepared by Deborah McMillion Nering)
"Lukundoo" [F] (1907)

Stewart Edward White (1873-1946)
"The two-gun man" [F] (1907, 1927 ed.)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"The Canterville Ghost" [F] (1887)
"Pen, pencil and poison: a study in green" [N] (1889)

Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)
"The wind in the rose-bush" [F] (1902, 1927 ed.)

J. Arbuthnot Wilson
(pseud. for Grant Allen)

John Mackay Wilson (1804-1835)
"The vacant chair" [F] (1869 ed.)

Owen Wister (1860-1938)
from Red Men and White [F] (1896)
"La Tinaja Bonita"
(prepared by Bob Champ)

Charles W. Wood (1850?-?)
"Mrs. Henry Wood: in memoriam" [N] (1887-apr, may, june)
• First installment
• Second installment
• Third and final installment

Mrs. Henry Wood (1814-1887)
"Reality or delusion?" [F] (1889 ed.)
"Ketira the gipsy" [F] (1908 ed.)

Frances Gilchrist Wood (a.k.a. Mrs. Lansing P. Wood.) (?-?)
"The white battalion" [F] (1918)
*at our American website; not for Canadian readers because of presumed copyright*

P.C. (Percival Christopher) Wren (1885-1941)
Stepsons of France [F] (1917, 1925 ed.)
 "I. Ten little legionaries"
"XV. The coward of the legion"

James J. Wright (1826?-1891?)
The Huts of Ellerslie: a romance of Leichardt [F] (1898) (in progress)
(Prepared by Toni Johnson-Woods)

Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939)
"The Great Detective Stories" (1927, 1946 ed.)
see also pseud. S.S. Van Dine

Madalene Yale Wynne (?-?)
"The little room" [F] (1895)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Three poems about Robert Gregory
from The wild swans at Coole (1919)

Zero (pseud. for Allan Ramsay) (?-?)
"The Adventure of the Table Foot" [F] (1894-jan)