An edition of The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century (1995)
The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century
By Robert Etty,Wilkie Collins,Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Arthur Conan Doyle,Edgar Allan Poe,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Charles Dickens,Montague Rhodes James,Thomas Hardy,Bram Stoker,Ambrose Bierce,Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford,Guy de Maupassant,H. G. Wells
Publish Date
1995
Publisher
Heinemann New Windmills
Language
eng
Pages
214
Description:
The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) / 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The red room / H. G. Wells.
subjects: 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
People: Father Time, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Victor Hatherley, Lysander Stark, Peyton Farquhar
Places: Toledo, London, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge