IntroductionGhost storiesThe Signal man by Charles Dickens (first published 1866)John Charrington's Wedding by Editch Nesbit (first published 1891)Mystery storiesThe Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle (first published 1892)A Terrible Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins (first published 1852)Science fiction storiesThe Star by H. G. Wells (first published 1897)The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley (first published 1833)Fantasy storiesThe Star-Child by Oscar Wilde (first published 1891)The Lizard by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (first published 1898)Realist storiesBehind the Shade by Arthur Morrison (first published 1894)A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four by Thomas Hardy (first published 1882).