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....
1. "Miss Bracegirdle does her Duty" by Stacy Aumonier
2. "A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant
3. "The Dead Hand" by Wilkie Collins
4. "The Tête Noire" by Charles Allston Collins
5. "The Belated Russian Passport" by Mark Twain
6. "My Adventure in Norfolk" by A. J. Alan
7. "My Black Mirror" by Wilkie Collins
8. "A Visit to Droughtland" by Banjo Paterson
9. "A Pastoral Horror" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10. "Smith and the Pharaohs" by H. Rider Haggard
11. "The Ship that saw a Ghost" by Frank Norris
12. "The Saloon Passenger" by E. W. Hornung
13. "The Man with the Watches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
14. "The Holly Tree" by Charles Dickens
15. "Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome
16. "The Inn of the Two Witches" by Joseph Conrad
17. "War" by Sherwood Anderson
18. "The Black Ferry" by John Galt
19. "A Strange Goldfield" by Guy Boothby
20. "The Downfall of Mulligans" by Banjo Paterson
21. "The Box Tunnel" by Charles Reade
22. "Submarine" by Stella Benson
23. "The Pig and Whistle" by George Gissing
24. "Cannibalism in the Cars" by Mark Twain
25. "A Rash Experiment" by W. W. Jacobs
26. "A Descent into the Maelström" by Edgar Allan Poe
27. "The Three Strangers" by Thomas Hardy
28. "The Mouse" by Saki
29. "Long Odds" by H. Rider Haggard
30. "The Room" by Stacy Aumonier
31. "Moon's Gibbet" by Egerton Castle
32. "Rats" by M. R. James
33. "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
34. "Lost in a Pyramid" by Louisa M. Alcott
35. "The Severed Hand" by Wilhelm Hauff
36. "The Scharz-Metterklume Method" by Saki