• Publication: Tales of Mystery: Startling Stories of the SupernaturalPublication Record # 554521
• Editors: Ernest Rhys, C. A. Dawson Scott
• Date: 1927-00-00
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Price:
  7/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: xii+287
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Page numbers from The Supernatural Index
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1382
  • LCCN: 27-23155
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 7539275
  • Reginald-1: 12197

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xi • Foreword (Tales of Mystery: Startling Stories of the Supernatural) • essay by Ernest Rhys and C. A. Dawson Scott
• 13 • Dream Fulfilment • short story by Edward J. O'Brien
• 23 • The Moth • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 35 • Not on the Passenger-List • (1915) • short story by Barry Pain
• 49 • The Child's Story • short fiction by Arthur Machen
• 59 • Bewitched • (1925) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 75 • The Grey Men • short story by Rebecca West
• 81 • The Barometer • (1911) • short story by Violet Hunt
• 93 • The Victim • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair
• 115 • The Voice • (1926) • short story by Zona Gale
• 119 • A Cry in the Night • short story by C. A. Dawson Scott [as by C. A. Dawson-Scott]
• 131 • Jean Guerneur • short story by Anatole Le Braz (trans. of L'intersigne du "cadavre' 1902) [as by Marguerite Gueneur of Quimper (in error)]
• 135 • The Head of Yvon Louarn • short story by Anatole Le Braz (trans. of L'intersigne de "la tête coupeé" 1893) [as by Marie Jeanne Le Vay of Paimpol (in error)]
• 137 • Grace Connor • (1876) • short story by Letitia Maclintock
• 139 • The Fetches • (1825) • short story by John Banim and Michael Banim
• 143 • Strange Phenomena in a Calvados Castle • essay by Camille Flammarion (trans. of Phénomènes étranges observés dans un château du Calvados 1923)
• 151 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 165 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
• 171 • From the Loom of the Dead • (1898) • short story by Elia W. Peattie
• 177 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 187 • The Interval • (1919) • short story by Vincent O'Sullivan
• 195 • The Mysterious Bride • (1830) • short story by James Hogg
• 205 • Peter • short story by Herman Ould
• 221 • A Reminiscence • short story by Professor A. H. Sayce
• 225 • The Shadow of a Midnight • (1909) • short story by Maurice Baring
• 229 • The Stranger • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 235 • His Mother's Eyes • short story by Philip MacDonald
• 249 • The Angel of the Lord • [Uncle Abner] • short story by Melville Davisson Post [as by Melville Post]
• 263 • The Ghoul • (1912) • short story by Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield
• 273 • The Four-Fifteen Express • (1866) • novelette by Amelia B. Edwards