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  The first entry after a red date is the scheduled reading for that week. All other entries are supplementary.

  Stories are chosen by Public Domain status in Canada and might not be in Public Domain where you live.

E.F. Benson's (1867-1940) "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu" (1931)

'01-dec-10
Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance" (1860)

also "In a cellar" (1859)
"The ray of displacement" (1903)

'01-dec-17
Samuel Davis' "The first piano in camp" (year?)

'01-dec-24
Marjorie Pickthall's "The men who climbed" (c. 1920)

'02-jan-14
Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock's (1860-1895) "The Other Side: A Breton Legend" (1893)

Here are some other werewolf stories:
Eugene Field's (1850-1895) "The Werewolf" (1911)
from Sabine Baring-Gould's (1834-1924) Book of Were-Wolves (1865) "Jean Grenier, a French were-wolf"
Henry Beaugrand's (1855-1929) "The werewolves" (1898).

'02-jan-21
Algernon Blackwood's (1869-1951) "The other wing" (1917)

'02-jan-28
Herbert Jenkins' (1876-1923) "The stolen Admiralty memorandum" (1921).
also "The holding up of Lady Glendale"
"The missing heavyweight"

From Lord Halifax's ghost book (1936)
collected by Viscount Charles Lindley Wood Halifax (1839-1934)
"The harper of Inveraray"

Daniel W. Cahill's (1802-1864) oration: "The last judgment" (1863).

'02-feb-04
Cutcliffe Hyne's Captain Kettle, ch. 5: "Fortunes adrift" (1898)

'02-feb-11
"Dick Turpin's ride to York", a chapter from Rookwood (1834)
by William Harrison Ainsworth

Irvin S. Cobb's (1866-1944) Exit laughing (1941)
four chapters about Harry Thaw and his trials

Guy Gilpatric's (1896-1950) "Scotch and water" (c. 1929, 1938 ed.)

'02-feb-18
"The wailing well" (1931 ed.)
by M.R. James (1862-1936)

Guy Gilpatric's (1896-1950) "Mary, Queen of Scots" (c. 1929, 1938 ed.)

From Lord Halifax's ghost book (1936)
collected by Viscount Charles Lindley Wood Halifax (1839-1934)
"The man in the iron cage"

'02-feb-25
Excerpted from _The Island of Sheep_ (1936) Part one, chapter four: "Haraldsen"
by John Buchan (1875-1940).

'02-mar-04

William Bolitho's (?-1930) "The self-help of G.J. Smith" (1926)
Eric R. Watson's (1879-1927) "George Joseph Smith" (1922), from the _Notable Trials_ series

'02-mar-11

Sutherland Menzies' (fl. 1838-1883) "Hugues the wer-wolf" (1838-sep)

'02-apr-01

Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) and Robert Eustace's (1854-1943) "The tea-leaf" (1925)

'02-apr-08

Bram Stoker's (1847-1912) "The secret of the growing gold" (c. 1897)

'02-apr-15

Dick Donovan's "The problem of Deadwood Hall" (c. 1896)
"Dick Donovan" is a pseudonym for J.E. Muddock, sometimes Preston-Muddock (1842-1934)

'02-may-06

Bret Harte's (1836-1902) stories of John Oakhurst, the gambler
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1868)
"A passage in the life of Mr. John Oakhurst" (1903)
"The outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869)

'02-may-13

Mark Twain's (1835-1910) "A ghost story" (1875)

'02-may-20

George W. Cable's "Jean de Poquelin"

'02-may-27

William Gilmore Simm's "Grayling; or, Murder will out"

'02-jun-03

Joel Chandler Harris's "The seen and unseen" & "A ghost story"
from Nights with Uncle Remus

'03-feb-03

E. Pauline Johnson's (1861-1913) "Her Majesty's Guest" (1913)
submitted by Andrew Sly

'03-feb-10

Robert Hichen's (1864-1950) "How love came to Professor Guildea" (1900)

'03-feb-17

Marjorie Pickthall's (1883-1922) "Luck" (1913)

'03-feb-24

W. Clark Russell's (1844-1911) "The Hinda mystery" (1893-oct)
submitted by John Addy

'03-mar-03

Francis Stevens's (1884-1939?) "Unseen - unfeared" (1919)

'03-mar-10

Rev. Edward Everett Hale's (1863-1932) "My double and how he undid me" (1859)
Rev. Robert Thomas Nabors' (1850-1884) "The great assassination" [of President Garfield, a sermon](1881)

'03-mar-17

Henry Drummond's (1851-1897 ) Natural Law in the Spiritual World, chapter on Parasitism (c. 1890)

'03-mar-24

R. Austin Freeman's (1862-1943 ) "The moabite cipher" (year?)

'03-mar-31

Arthur Conan Doyle's (1859-1930) The parasite (c. 1894)

'04-apr-12

Charles Nodier's (1780-1844) "Inès de Las Sierras" (1838, 1912 ed.)

'04-apr-19

Honoré de Balzac's (1799-1850) "The red house", a.k.a. "The red inn" (1831, transl. 1901)

'04-apr-26

Émile Augier's (1820-1889) Olympe's marriage (1854, 1915 ed.)

'04-may-03

Anna Katharine Green's (1846-1935) "Midnight at Beauchamp Row" (1900)

'04-may-10

Edith Wharton's (1862-1937) "Kerfol" (1916)

'04-may-17

Susan Glaspell's (1882-1948) "Trifles" (1916) and
"A jury of her peers" (1917)

'04-may-24

Mary Austin's (1868-1934) "The walking woman" (1907)

'04-may-31

Francis Steven's (1884-1939/48?) Citadel of fear (1919)

'04-jun-07

E. Phillips Oppenheim's (1866-1946) The great impersonation (1920), chapters 1-4 only

'04-jun-14

W. Clark Russell's (1844-1911) "The Mystery of the 'Ocean Star'" (1887)

'04-jun-21

M.R. James's (1862-1936) "Number 13" (1919, 1931 ed.)

'04-jun-28

James De Mille's (1833-1880) "The story of Fatima" (1877)
JULY

'04-jul-05

Harvey J. O'Higgins' (1876-1929) "The case of Padages Palmer" from The adventures of Detective Barney (1915, 1923 ed.)

'04-jul-12

Alan Sullivan's (1868-1947) "The eyes of Sebastien" (1928)

'04-jul-19

Charles G.D. Roberts' (1860-1943) "The terror of the sea caves" (1907)

'04-jul-26

Hulbert Footner's (1879-1944) "The kidnapping of Madame Storey" (1932)
SEPTEMBER

'04-sep-06

Baroness Orczy's (1865-1947) "Sir Percy explains" (1919)

'04-sep-13

John Buchan's (1875-1940) "Eaucourt by the Waters" (1920-21)

'04-sep-20

Rafael Sabatini's (1875-1950) "The abduction" (1908)

'04-sep-27

S.R. Crockett's (1859-1914) The Black Douglas (1899)
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