The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century

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

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

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.