Title: The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century
First published: February 22, 1995
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Short Stories, Juvenile audience, civil war, hanging, American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Union, hydraulic presses, Fuller's earth, thumbs, counterfeit money, American fiction, American Horror tales, American literature, American Short stories, Children's fiction, fear, horror, Horror stories, pendulums, Spanish Inquisition, Horror tales, Paranormal fiction, Detective and mystery stories
Places: Toledo, London, United States, Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge
People: Father Time, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Victor Hatherley, Lysander Stark, Peyton Farquhar
Time periods: 1889, 1861-65