Project Gutenberg 2007-11-10 Public domain in the USA. 144 French, Joseph Lewis 1858 1936 Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories Reading ease score: 68.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. May-Day Eve / Algernon Blackwood -- The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The Mummy's Foot / Théopile Gautier -- Mr. Bloke's Item / Mark Twain -- A Ghost / Lafcadio Hearn -- The Man Who Went Too Far / E. F. Benson -- Chan Tow The Highrob / Chester Bailey Fernando -- The Inmost Light / Arthur Machen -- The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange / A. Conan Doyle -- The Man With The Pale Eyes / Guy de Maupassant -- The Rival Ghosts / Brander Matthews. Produced by David Clarke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories" edited by Joseph Lewis French is a collection of short stories likely compiled in the early 20th century. This anthology explores themes of mysticism and humor, showcasing different tales that draw on the supernatural and the whimsical from various notable authors. Early in the collection, the opening story, “May-Day Eve” by Algernon Blackwood, introduces us to a prosaic doctor whose encounter with a mysterious folk-lorist transforms his perception of the world. The opening of “May-Day Eve” features a doctor who sets out for a visit to his friend, an old folk-lorist, with a book that debunks his friend's mystical theories. As he travels through the hills, a strange urgency and intimacy with nature begin to awaken within him, leading to a surreal encounter with a shadowy man. This meeting provokes a profound shift in his reality—a recognition of the hidden life within the natural world that he had previously dismissed. The story unravels the complexities of perception and the unfolding mysteries during twilight, hinting at the deeper layers of existence between the known and the unknown. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories Detective and mystery stories Ghost stories PN Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 409800 409009 2024-10-10T08:20:17.088117 2023-09-10T10:54:23.854951 text/html text/html 411905 2007-11-10T13:41:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 160162 2007-11-10T13:41:48 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 266613 2024-10-10T08:20:27.134094 application/epub+zip 272062 2024-10-10T08:20:21.495143 application/epub+zip 218941 2024-10-10T08:20:19.915136 application/epub+zip 572308 2024-10-10T08:20:31.186070 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 558142 2024-10-10T08:20:26.079094 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 419241 2022-08-11T04:58:24.915785 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 390211 390002 2024-10-10T08:20:16.151189 2023-09-10T10:54:23.096948 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 389910 2007-11-10T13:41:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 152572 2007-11-10T13:41:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 389907 2007-11-10T13:41:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 152509 2007-11-10T13:41:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22572 2024-10-10T08:20:31.321080 application/rdf+xml 25263 2024-10-10T08:20:20.480102 image/jpeg 4517 2024-10-10T08:20:20.198122 image/jpeg 261904 2024-10-10T08:20:17.128314 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia