Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories

Contents

Charles Dickens (1812-70)

The Haunted House

No. I Branch Line: The Signal Man


Bulwer-lytton (1803-73)

The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain

The Incantation


Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)

The Avenger


Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824)

Melmoth the Wanderer


Laurence Sterne (1713-68)

A Mystery with a Moral


William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63)

On Being Found Out

The Notch on the Ax

Anonymous

Bourgonef

The Closed Cabine


The House and the Brain-

An empty house, where no one dares live. A landlord who swears no one can make it through a single night. A brave, or foolish, young man with a scientific mind, who takes the challenge and locks himself in for a night he will never forget. And of course, it is a dark and stormy night... Apparitions, dark magic, floating objects, and paralyzing terror all wait any one who dares enter the doorway of this London haunted house. Written by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, most known for the classic horror intro "It was a dark and stormy night" Lytton takes his place in the archives of the most frightening fiction with The House and the Brain. Originally published in 1859 as The Haunters and the Haunted, or The House and the Brain this story will make even the most modern reader's blood curl.

The Haunted and the Haunters-

A rationalist Victorian visits a haunted house in order to explain the nature of its ghostly inhabitants.