Collins, Wilkie

Classic Ghost Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

The Moonstone

Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins's classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s.

Collins's story revolves around a diamond stolen from a Hindu holy place. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives the diamond, but by the following morning the stone has been stolen again. As the story unravels through multiple eyewitness accounts, the elderly Sergeant Cuff - with a face "sharp as a hatchet" - looks for the culprit.

One of Collins's best-loved novels, with an exciting plot moved along by deftly-drawn characters and elegant pacing, The Moonstone was also turned into a play by Collins; the play appears as an appendix to this edition.

The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday her friend and suitor, Franklin Blake, brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff and Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand.

The Haunted Hotel

Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or does it? Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting -- or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?

Detective, Mystery, Crime, and Horror Books on CD

From Sherlock Holmes, to the Phantom of the Opera, to the Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, to Criminal Psychology, to Dracula and Frankenstein, this CD, intended for use with Windows PCs, contains over a hundred and forty Detective, Mystery, Crime, and Horror books, in plain-text format, organized for easy access.

It also includes ReadPlease voice conversion software, so can listen to as well as read these books.

A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H.B. Irving;
Criminal Psychology, a Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross;
Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri;
London's Underword by Thomas Holmes

Anthologies -- The Lock and Key Library, Edited by Julian Hawthorne

Ambrose Bierce The Parenticide Club; Present at a Hanging

Earl Derr Biggers The Agony Column

Ernest Bramah The Mirror of Kong Ho

Wilkie Collins, 32 books

Richard Harding DavisThe Spy (short)

Walter de la Mare The Return

Charles Dickens Haunted Man; Hunted Down (short) ; The Mystery of Edwin Drood ; Three Ghost Stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment

Arthur Conan Doyle 8 books (Sherlock Holmes) plus 8 stories)

Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip; Celebrated Crimes -- 18 books in a single file; The Count of Monte Cristo,; The Man in the Iron Mask

Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Emile Gaboriau 12 books

Anna Katharine Green The Golden Slipper And Other Problems for Violet Strange; The Leavenworth Case

Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner The Case of The Lamp That Went Out; The Case of the Golden Bullet; The Case of The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study; The Case of the Registered Letter

O. Henry Rolling Stones

E.W. Hornung The Amateur Cracksman; Dead Men Tell No Tales; Raffles; A Thief in the Night

Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Andrew Lang The Valet's Tragedy and Other Studies

Gaston Leroux The Mystery of the Yellow Room; The Phantom of the Opera; The Secret of the Night;

S. Weir Mitchell The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow

Elia Wilkinson Peattie The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales

Frank Pinkerton Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective or The Crime of the Midnight Express

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven edition of his complete works

E. R. Punshon The Bittermeads Mystery

Mary Roberts Rinehart The Bat; The Breaking Point; The Circular Staircase; Confession; Dangerous Days; The Man in Lower Ten; Sight Unseen; The Street of the Seven Stars; Where There's a Will

Sax Rohmer Dope; Fire-Tongue; The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu; The Quest of the Sacred Slipper; The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu; The Yellow Claw

Melvin L. Severy The Darrow Enigma

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Chester K. Steele The Golf Course Mystery

Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Frank R. StocktonThe Lady, or the Tiger?

Bram Stoker Dracula; The Jewel of the Seven Stars; The Lady of the Shroud; The Lair of the White Worm; The Man

Rex Stout Under the Andes

Mark Twain Carnival of Crime in Connecticut; The Double-Barrelled Detective; The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg; Pudd'n Head Wilson; Sketches New and Old; Tom Sawyer, Detective

Carolyn Wells The Gold Bag

Edith Wharton Tales of Men and Ghosts

Oscar Wilde Lord Arthur Saville's Crime; The Picture of Dorian Grey

Mary Wilkins The Wind in the Rose-Bush And Other Stories Of The Supernatural

Who Killed Zebedee? (Hesperus Classics)

Woman in White (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

With an Introduction and Notes by Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie to the corpulent villain Count Fosco and the enigmatic woman herself.

The Haunted Hotel - A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins

In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in modern times.

One afternoon, towards the close of the London season, the Doctor had just taken his luncheon after a specially hard morning's work in his consulting-room, and with a formidable list of visits to patients at their own houses to fill up the rest of his day-- when the servant announced that a lady wished to speak to him.

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The Haunted Hotel

Tales of Terror

Great tales of terror and the supernatural

This bargain of a book is a thick hardcover anthology--more than 1,000 pages long--containing stories of naturalistic and supernatural terror. First published in 1944, it has stood the test of time and become a classic in the field. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural is rivaled only by David G. Hartwell's The Dark Descent as the essential horror anthology. Fortunately, there's little overlap: of the 52 tales in this anthology, only 5 are duplicated in The Dark Descent. Included here are such memorable stories as W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw"; Saki's "Sredni Vashtar" and "The Open Window"; Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"; Conrad Aiken's "Silent Snow, Secret Snow"; Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan"; along with gems by E.F. Benson, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Walter de la Mare, M.R. James, Guy de Maupassant, and O. Henry.

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers").

"There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction," wrote the Saturday Review. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise.