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

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.