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• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar — Leblanc, Maurice
• The King in Yellow — Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
• The Shunned House — Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
• The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories — Blackwood, Algernon
• The Gay Cockade — Bailey, Temple
• The Damned Thing: 1898, From "In the Midst of Life" — Bierce, Ambrose
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 — Poe, Edgar Allan
• Complete Short Works of George Meredith — Meredith, George
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 — Poe, Edgar Allan
• The innocence of Father Brown — Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• The wisdom of Father Brown — Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• Ghost Stories of an Antiquary — James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
• The call of Cthulhu — Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
• The Cask of Amontillado — Poe, Edgar Allan
• Tales of Terror and Mystery — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories — Kipling, Rudyard
• The case-book of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• Changeling, and Other Stories — Byrne, Donn
• Grimms' Fairy Tales — Grimm, Jacob
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Illustrated — Doyle, Arthur Conan
• The Dunwich horror — Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
• The Jungle Book — Kipling, Rudyard
• A Martian Odyssey — Weinbaum, Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman)
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes — Poe, Edgar Allan
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Irving, Washington
• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio — Boccaccio, Giovanni
• The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure — Beach, Rex
• Andersen's Fairy Tales — Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
• The secret of Father Brown — Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• Tales grotesque and curious — Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke
• Shadows in Zamboula — Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
• Shadows in the Moonlight — Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
• Tales of terror — Donovan, Dick
• The dream detective — Rohmer, Sax
• Fairy dreams : $b or, Wanderings in Elf-land — Austin, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin)
• A municipal feud — Haycox, Ernest
• The ghost of Charlotte Cray, and other stories — Marryat, Florence
• The Old Lady flies — Whitfield, Raoul
• Borrowed feathers — Lamb, Ruth
• The adventures of Heine — Wallace, Edgar
• A young man's story — Doudney, Sarah
• The magic casket — Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
• The new terror — Leroux, Gaston
• The blue scarab — Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
• Wanted—? — Cunningham, Eugene
• They return at evening : $b A book of ghost stories — Wakefield, Herbert Russell
• False face — Haycox, Ernest
• The man who saved New York — Cummings, Ray
• Red aces : $b Being three cases of Mr. Reeder — Wallace, Edgar
• Arsène Lupin intervenes — Leblanc, Maurice
• The life-eater — Ward, Harold
• The Arctic legions — Smith, A. De Herries (Augustus De Herries)
• Blue eyes and diamonds — De Bra, Lemuel
• White nights, and other stories — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
• The Yellow Wallpaper — Gilman, Charlotte Perkins