The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century

New Windmills

by Robert Etty

ACE 0435124331 (ISBN13: 9780435124335)

The Ostler / Wilkie Collins --
The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell --
The adventure of the engineer's thumb / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The pit and the pendulum / 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 --
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.

Genres: Mystery

214 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2009

Reviews

[Bri Fidelity · Rating 4 out of 5]

A strong selection of Victorian ghost and sensation stories for - I guess - 00s teens, losing points only for inexplicably being called 'Mystery Stories' when there's, like, one mystery story in the bunch and the mystery is only tacked on at the very end.

And now I've read 'The Pit and the Pendulum' finally, so.

[Bookish_predator · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars

I should've read this in school but decided against it after reading the first story. I can't believe it's took me this long to read the rest of them as I quite enjoyed them, not all of them were to my taste though but I really liked others.

[Mbuye · Rating 5 out of 5]

Selected primarily for schools, this book contains some of the most anthologised ghost and generally creepy stories, and the choice of authors, from Wilkie Collins to HG Wells includes American and European writers as well as British. Dickens and Collins present their ghosts, one a malignant one and ther other benign, Bram Stoker is present with his haunted house, Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce and Poe with their fairy weaves. The great MR James is represented with one of his scarier tales, and Mrs Gaskell with her throwback to the time when the elves spirited away children. Thomas Hardy, Conan Doyle, Amelia Edwards and Mary Elizabeth Braddon bring up the mix. A good collection to read, although the language is far too literary for present day school levels.

[Tazar Oo · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't like it much because it's above my English reading skill.

[Mellie · Rating 3 out of 5]

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