Strange Travel Stories

A fascinating collection of travellers' tales, featuring weird innkeepers, ghouls and ghosts, robbers and murderers, card sharpers and confidence tricksters, dead bodies in odd places.... the very thing for anyone busy planning a vacation this year.... "Miss Bracegirdle does her Duty" by Stacy Aumonier "A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant "The Dead Hand" by Wilkie Collins "The Tête Noire" by Charles Allston Collins "The Belated Russian Passport" by Mark Twain "My Adventure in Norfolk" by A. J. Alan "My Black Mirror" by Wilkie Collins "A Visit to Droughtland" by Banjo Paterson "A Pastoral Horror" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Smith and the Pharaohs" by H. Rider Haggard "The Ship that saw a Ghost" by Frank Norris "The Saloon Passenger" by E. W. Hornung "The Man with the Watches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Holly Tree" by Charles Dickens "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome "The Inn of the Two Witches" by Joseph Conrad "War" by Sherwood Anderson "The Black Ferry" by John Galt "A Strange Goldfield" by Guy Boothby "The Downfall of Mulligans" by Banjo Paterson "The Box Tunnel" by Charles Reade "Submarine" by Stella Benson "The Pig and Whistle" by George Gissing "Cannibalism in the Cars" by Mark Twain "A Rash Experiment" by W. W. Jacobs "A Descent into the Maelström" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy "The Mouse" by Saki "Long Odds" by H. Rider Haggard "The Room" by Stacy Aumonier "Moon's Gibbet" by Egerton Castle "Rats" by M. R. James "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Lost in a Pyramid" by Louisa M. Alcott "The Severed Hand" by Wilhelm Hauff "The Scharz-Metterklume Method" by Saki