99 Classic Thriller Short Stories: 99 Readym Anthologies, Book 1

by Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Algernon Blackwood

CONTENTS:

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
1. The Queen of Spades
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD:
2. Confession
3. S. O. S.
4. The Wings of Horus
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
5. B. 24
ARTHUR O. FRIEL:
6. The Spider
7. The Vulture
ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH:
8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman
9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands
10. The Countess of Bellarmine
ARTHUR STRINGER:
11. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven
12. The Button Thief
13. The Wire-Tappers
ARTHUR TRAIN:
14. Extradition
15. The Baron de Ville
16. The Golden Touch
17. The Nth Power
BARONESS ORCZY
18. Needs Must
BARRY PAIN
19. The Undying Thing
CHARLES E. VAN LOAN
20. For Brodie's Benefit
CLEVELAND MOFFETT:
21. The Mysterious Card
22. The Mysterious Card Unveiled
COMPTON MACKENZIE
23. Carnage
CY WARMAN:
24. A Locomotive as a War Chariot
25. A Wild Night at Wood River
26. The Express Messenger
27. Wakalona
E.NESBIT
28. John Charrington's Wedding
E.W. HORNUNG
29. The Man at the Wheel
EDGAR ALLAN POE
30. The Fall of the House of Usher
EDGAR WALLACE:
31. The Man Who Died Twice
32. The Man Who Hated Earthworms
33. The Man Who Lived at Clapham
34. The Man Who Was Acquitted
35. The Man Who Would Not Speak
EDWARD S. ELLIS
36. A Stirring Incident
EDWARD S. ELLIS
37. A Young Hero
ETHEL TURNER
38. In the Silence of the Sleep-Time
EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES
39. The Long Shift
FRANK L. PACKARD
40. The Blood of Kings
FRANK L. PACKARD
41. The Builder
FRANK L. PACKARD
42. The Man Who Didn't Count
FRED M. WHITE
43. Red Petals
FRED M. WHITE
44. The Other Man's Story
FRED M. WHITE
45. The Shebeeners
FRED M. WHITE
46. The Waterwitch
G.B. LANCASTER
47. The Brand of the Wild
GEORGE NEWNES
48. A Fair Smuggler
GILBERT PARKER:
49. A Castaway of the South
50. As Deep As the Sea
51. The Gift of the Simple King
GUY BOOTHBY
52. The Treasure of Sacramento Nick
H. BEDFORD-JONES:
53. A Personal Problem
54. Gallegher of Beaver
55. Sun, Sand and Soap
56. The Image of Earth
H.A. LAMB
57. Said Afzel's Elephant
H.C. BAILEY
58. Sir Albert's Fall
H.C. BAILEY
59. The Devil of Marston
H.C. BAILEY
60. The Lone Hand
H.G. WELLS
61. The Treasure in the Forest
H.G. WELLS
62. Through a Window
HAPSBURG LIEBE
63. The Jungle's Accolade
HAROLD BINDLOSS
64. An Unofficial Affair
HAROLD BINDLOSS
65. Gillatly's March
HAROLD TITUS
66. The Man Who Wouldn't Stay Put
HARVEY J. O'HIGGINS
67. A Change of Profession
HARVEY J. O'HIGGINS
68. Captain Keighley's Men
HARVEY J. O'HIGGINS
69. Captain Meaghan's Retirement
HENRY C. ROWLAND
70. At the Break of the Monsoon
HENRY C. ROWLAND
71. At the Last of the Ebb
HENRY C. ROWLAND
72. In the China Sea
HENRY C. ROWLAND
73. Jordan Knapp, Trader
HENRY C. ROWLAND
74. Rosenthal the Jew
HENRY C. ROWLAND
75. The Shears of Atropos
HENRY C. ROWLAND
76.

Genres: Thriller

2032 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 2, 2020

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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