Includes:

• The ostler - Wilkie Collins.
• The old nurse's story - Elizabeth Gaskell.
• The adventures 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.
• The occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Pierce.
• The phantom coach - Amelia B. Edwards.
• A vendetta - Guy Maupassant.
• The red room - H.G. Wells.