The Great Book of Thrillers

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H2, Etc. / A.J. Alan -- The smell in the library / Michael Arlen -- The man in the bell / W.E. Aytoun -- The mysterious man / Honore de Balzac -- The folding doors / Marjorie Bowen -- The lady of Glenwith Grange / Wilkie Collins -- The new sun / J.S. Fletcher -- Hot water / Val Gielgud -- The island / L.P. Hartley -- Edward Randolph's portrait / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The spectre bridegroom / Washington Irving -- [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The tarn / Hugh Walpole -- The resurrectionist / Samuel Warren -- The blue room / Prosper Merimee -- The cafe of terror / E. Phillips Oppenheim -- The avenging chance / Anthony Berkeley -- A lesson in crime / G.D.H. and M. Cole -- Mr. Pemberton's commission / Freeman Wills Crofts -- Who killed Castelvetri? / Gilbert Frankau -- The aluminium dagger / R. Austin Freeman -- The Glyston slander / Herbert Jenkins -- Arsene Lupin in prison / Maurice Leblanc -- The Fenchurch street mystery / Baroness Orczy -- Peacock House / Eden Phillpotts -- The vanishing diamond / John Rhode -- Staley Fleming's hallucination / Ambrose Bierce -- The Italian's story / Catherine Crowe -- The ghost of Dorothy Dingley / Daniel Defoe -- To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- Madam Crowl's ghost / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- Black coffee / Jeffery Farnol -- The black ferry / John Galt -- The dreamland bride / Theophile Gautier -- The dilemma of Phadrig / Gerald Griffin -- Mary Burnet / James Hogg -- The three sisters / W.W. Jacobs -- The doctor's ghost / Norman Macleod. Mr. Kempe / Walter De La Mare -- The tapestried chamber / Sir Walter Scott -- The frontier guards / H. Russell Wakefield -- The red room / H.G. Wells -- The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde -- The gardener / E.F. Benson -- A Spanish ghost story / Anon. --