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• Famous Mystery Stories • (1922) • anthology by J. Walker McSpadden
• Introduction (Famous Mystery Stories) • (1922) • essay by J. Walker McSpadden
• The Spectre of Tappington • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • (1837) • novelette by Richard Harris Barham
• The Mysterious Sketch • (1880) • short story by Alexandre Chatrian and
  Émile Erckmann^?Emile Erckmann
  (trans. of L'esquisse mystérieuse 1859) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian]
• The Deserted House • (1922) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of
  Das öde Haus^?Das oede Haus
  1817) [as by Ernest T. W. Hoffmann]
• The Adelantado of the Seven Cities • (1922) • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Adalantado of the Seven Cities: A Legend of St. Brandan 1839)
• The Pipe • (1922) • short story by Richard Marsh [as by Anonymous]
• The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• The Diamond Lens • (1858) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• The Mummy's Foot • (1926) • short story by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of Le pied de momie 1840)
• The Thief • (1913) • novelette by Anna Katharine Green
• Famous Detective Stories • non-genre • (1920) • anthology by J. Walker McSpadden
• Introduction (Famous Detective Stories) • (1920) • essay by J. Walker McSpadden
• The Purloined Letter • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1844) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Scandal in Bohemia • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1891) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by A. Conan Doyle]
• The Adventure of the Hansom Cabs • [The Suicide Club • 3] • (1920) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Adventure of the Hansom Cab 1878)
• The Adventure of the Toadstools • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• The Black Hand • [Craig Kennedy] • (1910) • novelette by Arthur B. Reeve
• The Grotto Spectre • (1915) • novelette by Anna Katharine Green