Mystery and Imagination

1. The Lost Stradivarius

A certain tune, played on a particular violin, invokes an evil eighteenth cen...

2. The Body Snatcher

In the early 19th century, an eminent professor seeks (illegally) to obtain d...

3. The Fall of the House of Usher

A young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old hou...

4. The Open Door

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find hi...

5. The Tractate Middoth

Garrett, a young librarian, is hired by an impatient man to find an old tract...

7. The Canterville Ghost

Rich Americans visiting Europe lease an old English country house and find it...