Tales of Murder and Mayhem: 40 Classic Short Stories

1. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey

2. "A Madman’s Manuscript" by Charles Dickens

3. "The Hair" by A. J. Alan

4. "My Favourite Murder" by Ambrose Bierce

5. "Cannibalism in the Cars" by Mark Twain

6. "Gabriel-Earnest" by Saki

7. "The Pistol Shot" by Alexander Pushkin

8. "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling

9. "At the Farmhouse" by E. F. Benson

10. "The Parasite" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11. "The Murder of the Mandarin" by Arnold Bennett

12. "Moon’s Gibbet" by Egerton Castle

13. "Query" by Seamark

14. "The Beast with Five Fingers" by W. F. Harvey

15. "The Enemy" by Hugh Walpole

16. "The First of April" by A. J. Alan

17. "The Invisible Man" by G. K. Chesterton

18. "Old Fags" by Stacy Aumonier

19. "Bagnell Terrace" by E. F. Benson

20. "The Furnished Room" by O. Henry

21. "The Perfect Murder" by Stacy Aumonier

22. "The Thing in the Hall" by E. F. Benson

23. "The Watcher by the Threshold" by John Buchan

24. "The Smile of La Gioconda" by Morley Roberts

25. "Nyarlathotep" by H. P. Lovecraft

26. "The Three Sisters" by W. W. Jacobs

27. "The Judgment of Paris" by Leonard Merrick

28. "Professor of Egyptology" by Guy Boothby

29. "Where Was Wych Street" by Stacy Aumonier

30. "A Joy Ride" by A. J. Alan

31. "Caterpillars" by E. F. Benson

32. "The Saloon Passenger" by E. W. Hornung

33. "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

34. "The Cord" by Charles Baudelaire

35. "A Child’s Revenge" by Paul Bourget

36. "Charles" by A. J. Alan

37. "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence

38. "The Confession of Charles Linkworth" by E. F. Benson

39. "The Eyes" by Edith Wharton

40. "The Marionette" by O. Henry