Strange Tales from the Strand Magazine

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Containing twenty-nine stories of the weird and uncanny, all originally published in the Strand, this collection is an enthralling mix of horror and the supernatural, unnatural disasters, madness, and revenge. We read of a germ that turned the world blind in Edgar Wallace's "The Black Grippe." In "A Sense of the Future," the world supply of oil gives out, cars become obsolete, and after three months we have returned to the days of horse-drawn carriages. In other tales, a camera takes pictures of the future, and a 1971 newspaper is pushed through a mail slot forty years earlier. With spine-tingling stories from the likes of Sapper, Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and a comic fantasy by H.G. Wells, as well as two tales from the children's writer E. Nesbit, Strange Tales from the Strand provides a rich collection for all lovers of the macabre.

CONTENTS
All But Empty by Graham Greene
Lord Beden's Motor by Harris Burland
The Tarn by Hugh Walpole
Resurgam by Rina Ramsay
The Railway Carriage by F. Tennyson Jesse
The Bell by Beverley Nichols
His Brother's Keeper by W. W. Jacobs
Touch and Go by Sapper
Waxworks by W. L. George
White Spectre by B. L. Jacot
'Tickets, Please!' non-genre by D. H. Lawrence
A Torture by Hope by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
A Horrible Fright by L. T. Meade
The Case of Roger Carboyne by H. Greenhough Smith
The Orchestra of Death by Ianthe Jerrold
The Lizard by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
Inexplicable by L. G. Moberly
The Prophetic Camera by L. de Giberne Sieveking
Cavalanci's Curse by Henry A. Hering
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper by H. G. Wells
The Black Grippe by Edgar Wallace
The Fog by Morley Roberts
The Thames Valley Catastrophe by Grant Allen
A Sense of the Future by Martin Swayne
The Silver Mirror by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Haunted House by E. Nesbit
How It Happened by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Power of Darkness by E. Nesbit
The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle