A Century of Thrillers: Second Series (Daily Express, 1935, 896pp, hc, an)
Published in Australia as The World’s Best Mystery Stories, Melbourne: United Press, 1935.
- 15 · The Taipan · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1922
- 25 · Tale of the Piper · Donn Byrne · vi Destiny Bay by Donn Byrne, Little Brown, 1928
- 31 · The Lifted Veil · George Eliot · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine July 1859, uncredited.
- 75 · Number 13 · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904
- 91 · Rats · M. R. James · ss At Random March 23 1929
- 97 · Count Magnus · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904
- 113 · The Queer Feet [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 1 1910, as “Why the True Fishermen Always Wear Green Evening Coats”
- 135 · Pollock and the Porroh Man · H. G. Wells · ss New Budget May 23 1895
- 155 · My Adventure in Norfolk · A. J. Alan · ss The London Magazine October 1927
broadcast by the BBC Dec 24, 1926.
- 165 · Tchériapin · Sax Rohmer · ss The Sovereign Magazine April 1920
- 185 · The Ivory God · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The London Magazine October 1905
- 201 · The Apparition of Mrs. Veal · Daniel Defoe · ar B. Bragg, 1706, as “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”, uncredited.
- 213 · The Thing in the Hall · E. F. Benson · nv The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills Boon, 1912
- 229 · Night · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“La Nuit”, Gil Blas, June 14, 1887).
- 235 · The Drowned Man · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“Le Noyé”, Le Gaulois, August 16, 1888).
- 243 · Who Knows? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“Qui sait?”, L’Echo de Paris, April 6, 1890).
- 259 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- 275 · The Ballad of Reading Gaol · Oscar Wilde · pm Leonard Smithers, February 13 1898, as by C.3.3.
- 297 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843
- 303 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839
- 323 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843
- 335 · Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · nv American Museum September 18 1838
- 353 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893
- 367 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q
- 381 · The Last Leaf · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World October 15 1905
- 389 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Pocket Magazine June 1901
- 405 · The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain · Charles Dickens · na Bradbury & Evans, December 19 1848
- 493 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s”
- 503 · The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890
- 513 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893
- 525 · The Beast with Five Fingers · W. F. Harvey · nv The Beast with Five Fingers by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928
revised from The New Decameron, Volume the First, B.H. Blackwell, 1919.
- 555 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885
- 577 · Man Overboard! · F. Marion Crawford · nv The Strand Magazine June 1903
- 615 · Diver’s Drops · N. A. Temple Ellis · nv (r)
- 641 · The Cards · Sydney Parkman · ss (r)
- 657 · The Knights of the Silver Dagger · Ashton Wolfe · ar The Passing Show December 9 1933
- 683 · The Werewolf · Frederick Marryat · ex The New Monthly Magazine July 1839, as “Krantz’s Narrative”
- 707 · Schalken the Painter · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, James McGlashan, 1851
revised from “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” (Dublin University Magazine May 1939).
- 731 · Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · na The Dark Blue December 1871 (+3)
- 799 · The Familiar [Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · nv In a Glass Darkly by J. S. Le Fanu, R. Bentley & Son, 1872
revised from “The Watcher”, Dublin University Magazine, November 1847.
- 841 · Gabriel’s Marriage · Wilkie Collins · nv Household Words April 16 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- 887 · The Sexton’s Hero · Mrs. Gaskell · ss Howilt’s Journal September 4 1847, as by Cotton Mather Mills
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