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The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century

  • Wilkie Collins,
  • Montague Rhodes James,
  • Ambrose Bierce,
  • Edgar Allan Poe,
  • Guy de Maupassant,
  • Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford,
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon,
  • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,
  • Bram Stoker,
  • Charles Dickens,
  • Thomas Hardy,
  • Arthur Conan Doyle,
  • H. G. Wells,
  • Robert Etty

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The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Pit and the Pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe -- Samuel Lowgood's revenge / Mary E. Braddon -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Lost hearts / M. R. James -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The red room / H. G. Wells.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • History
  • Classic Literature
  • Short Stories
  • Juvenile audience
  • civil war
  • hanging
  • American Civil War
  • Confederate States of America
  • Union
  • hydraulic presses
  • Fuller's earth
  • thumbs
  • counterfeit money
  • American fiction
  • American Horror tales
  • American literature
  • American Short stories
  • Children's fiction
  • fear
  • horror
  • Horror stories
  • pendulums
  • Spanish Inquisition
  • Horror tales
  • Paranormal fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
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    About the authors

    • Wilkie Collins

      8 Jan 1824 - 23 Sep 1889

      3.94

      90 ratings · 826 works

    • Montague Rhodes James

      1 Aug 1862 - 12 Jun 1936

      4.17

      18 ratings · 275 works

    • Ambrose Bierce

      1842 - 1914?

      3.96

      139 ratings · 1041 works

    • Edgar Allan Poe

      19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

      4.16

      430 ratings · 4050 works

    • Guy de Maupassant

      5 Aug 1850 - 2 Mar 1893

      3.94

      79 ratings · 2616 works

    • Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

      1831 - 1892

      4.67

      3 ratings · 147 works

    • Mary Elizabeth Braddon

      4 October 1835 - 4 February 1915

      3.92

      13 ratings · 1003 works

    • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

      29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865

      3.89

      55 ratings · 1743 works

    • Bram Stoker

      1847 - 1912

      3.99

      255 ratings · 1141 works

    • Charles Dickens

      7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870

      3.84

      726 ratings · 6559 works

    • Thomas Hardy

      2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928

      3.83

      102 ratings · 3693 works

    • Arthur Conan Doyle

      1859-05-22 - 1930-07-07

      4.12

      886 ratings · 9093 works

    • H. G. Wells

      21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946

      3.80

      565 ratings · 8931 works

    • Robert Etty

      5.00

      1 ratings · 8 works

    Editions

    • Edition cover

      printing (21)

      Heinemann New Windmills

      1995

    • Edition cover

      Giant print ed.

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