For all the short story collections in the genre(s) I've been able to track down, I created this companion thread:
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Queen of Sheba (1877) [41,746 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5705It tells the tale of an intriguing encounter between a young woman and a mysterious man who claims to be a colonel. The story unfolds with a mix of humor, romance, and a touch of the unexpected, making it an engaging read
Grant Allen
Kalee’s Shrine (1886) [47,816 word count]
https://archive.org/details/cihm_05048This intriguing, but little-known ‘imperial Gothic’ novel begins in dramatic fashion when an anglo-Indian infant is made a votary of Kalee, vengeful goddess of the Thugs. Years later, the baby has grown into beautiful Olga Trevelyan. But it soon transpires that Kalee’s nefarious influence still lurks in Olga’s unconscious mind, waiting to be reawakened.
Jaws of Death (1889) [13,859 word count]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnpjl4A sinister tale of kidnapping and torture in Chinatown
Maude Annesley
The Door of Darkness (1908) [86,266 word count]
https://archive.org/details/the-door-of-darknessA study of the occult...
Shadow-Shapes (1911) [80,402 word count]
https://archive.org/details/shadowshapes00anneCutherbert Brocklehurst has hypnotized his wife so she will die when he does...Hypnotism as supernatural force.
Anonymous
Wanted–An Explanation (1881)
Part 1: https://books.google.com/books?id=4ys-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=falseFemale occult detective Lady Julia Spinner investigates a haunted house purported to drive wives to commit adultery.
Part 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=4ys-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 3: https://books.google.com/books?id=4ys-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 4: https://books.google.com/books?id=4ys-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q&f=false
F. Anstey
A Fallen Idol (1886) [93,622 word count]
https://archive.org/details/fallenidol00anstan oriental deity exerts a sinister influence on a young artist
Herbert Asbury
The Devil of Pei-Ling (1927)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89032202756Editor John Pelan calls this novel of "demon-possessed idols, giant toads, and bloody ropes appearing from nowhere" a minor masterpiece.
Gertrude Atherton
The White Morning (1917) [32,649 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13496A fictional account of the revolution in Germany that ended World War One. In this tale the uprising is a cross-class conspiracy of women, huge in scale but tightly organised from the top: led by an aristocrat who has betrayed her caste under the influence of wealthy liberal women from the USA.
Josephine Daskam Bacon
Medusa's Head (1926) [24,065 word count]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015023160701
Elisabeth Balch
Zorah: a Love-Tale of Modern Egypt (1886) [49,851 word count]
https://archive.org/details/zorah.-a-love-tale-of-modern-egypt
Andrew Balfour
The Golden Kingdom (1903) [161,897 word count]
https://archive.org/details/goldenkingdombe00balfgoogThis is a 'lost race' adventure novel, in the tradition of Haggard, in which a golden city inhabited by a bronze-skinned race ruled by whites is discovered in the interior of Africa.
Jane Barlow
A Strange Land (1908) (as Felix Ryark) [59,203 word count]
https://archive.org/details/felix-ryark-1908-a-strange-landa Utopian lost world novel
Martin W. Barr
The King of Thomond: A Story of Yesterday (1907) [48,864 word count]
https://archive.org/details/kingofthomondsto00barrA young woman is sent to be a governess of a house on Thomond Island where she is tasked with caring for wax dolls made in the likeness of the dead wife and daughter of a mad scientist.
Arnold Bennett
The Glimpse (1909) [82,403 word count]
https://archive.org/details/glimpseanadvent00benngoogconcerns Maurice Loring, a writer on music, who suffers a heart attack and appears to die. His soul leaves his body and experiences the wonders of the afterlife. Described as a 'unusual contribution to the literature of the cosmic'
John Bennett
Madame Margot: A Grotesque Legend of Old Charleston (1921) [14,786 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69430A good but strange macabre work reminiscent of Poe and associated with the Charleston Renaissance.
A.C. Benson
The Child of the Dawn (1912) [68,195 word count]
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15964allegorical fantasy about life, reincarnation, and the persistence of the human spirit.
Basil Netherby (1927) [12,113 word count]
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Basil_Netherby/zk0PAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1Hartley and Bendyshe investigate various paranormal occurrences at Hebden Hill, which culminate in a confrontation with Faulkner's ghost over a hidden journal detailing Faulkner's experiments in the occult.
The Uttermost Farthling (1927) [24,601 word count]
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Basil_Netherby/zk0PAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA75&printsec=frontcoverThree men race against the ghosts of two evil men to uncover hidden secrets. Are the secrets better revealed or destroyed?
E. F. Benson
The Luck of the Vails (1903) [107, 634 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57690The plot revolves around a cursed golden goblet that has been in the possession of the Vail family for generations.
The Image in the Sand (1905) [147,333 word count]
https://archive.org/details/imageinsand00bensgoogE.F. Benson dives into Ancient Egypt and occult mysticism.
David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918) [33,407 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48505A second novel, David Blaize and the Blue Door, set in David's early childhood, was published in 1918.[2] In contrast to the first book, it is a fantasy in the style of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, set in a dream landscape permeated with nonsense.
Across the Stream (1919) [96,304 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37917A supernatural romantic melodrama, very much in the same vein as The Image in the Sand (1905)
Henri Béraud
Lazarus (1925)
https://archive.org/details/lazarus_20230318Considered an influence on H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time"
Algernon Blackwood
A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913) [133,699 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6021Pure fantasy and magic combine in this delightful tale of a family of children trapped in a straight-laced adult world. Forming a secret society, collecting stardust and living in star caves, they endeavour to rescue their parents from a dreary, earthbound existence.
The Extra Day (1915) [91,688 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5894Algernon Blackwood's tale is about three children growing up in the Old Mill House in the Victorian era. When their Uncle Felix comes to visit, his magical storytelling and patience with the children impacts their lives significantly.
Julius LeVallon: An Episode (1916) [104,205 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50107A chance meeting between John Mason and Julius Le Vallon sparks a long-forgotten memory of a former life. Le Vallon reminds Mason of the Temple Days - a time hundreds of thousands of years ago when the two of them and a girl conducted a forbidden experiment which went disastrously wrong. The experiment unleashed the elemental powers of Wind and Fire, which Le Vallon has tried ever since to channel back to their domain. These attempts have always failed because the girl was not present. Now, as the story reaches its elemental climax millennia later, the three spirits are united and Le Vallon must face the ultimate challenge.
The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath (1916) [112,424 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33876It is a story of a love triangle in ancient Egypt that had a tragic ending, resulting in two deaths. Now, it is England, and the protagonist is a young boy who dreams of a wave. He believes that one day that huge wave will crash down on his life destroying everything in its path. His entire life is driven by this dream, as he gets more information from it - the love triangle resurfaces, he is one of the players that has been reincarnated for a specific purpose. Will they play out their same roles, or achieve new ones?
The Garden of Survival (1918) [24,682 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4046...The story is comprised of a narrative written to the protagonist's twin brother looking back on his short marriage to an artistically-creative young woman who was his short-lived wife and can be seen as signifying both a mesmerizing beauty embodying true love as well as possibly a dark force of seduction. The narrative mainly documents the protagonist's spiritual development through the years following his short marriage and the effect her embodiment still has on him, either through memory or ghostly presence.
The Promise of Air (1918) [65,883 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35132A man marries a woman who carries something of the spirit of air within her, something wonderful and birdlike. Only she loses that wonder, becoming someone quite ordinary and frightened of anything which might be extraordinary.
Robert Blatchford
The Sorcery Shop (1907) [52,099 word count]
https://archive.org/details/sorceryshopimpo00blat/A wizard creates a socialist utopia in England
Horace Bleackley
Anymoon (1919) [104,587 word count]
https://archive.org/details/anymoonan anti-socialist Dystopia set in a Near Future Britain
Mabel Fuller Blodgett
At the Queen's Mercy (1897) [48,637 word count]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100484604A lost race tale in the style of H. Rider Haggard's She
James Blyth
The Weird Sisters (1918) [70,546 word count]
https://archive.org/details/the-weird-sistersa novel of mystery and witchcraft
A Hazardous Wooing (1907) [60,241 word count]
https://archive.org/details/a-hazardous-wooinginvolves smugglers with occult powers
Guy Boothby
Pharos the Egyptian (1898) [98,945 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33610A grand mummy novel that is reminiscent of the Universal Studios mummy movies from the 1930s and the Fu Manchu novels by Sax Rohmer, though it pre-dates them all.
Clarence M. Boutelle
Beyond the End: The Story of a Ghost's Year (1892)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100594901
John Bowles
The Masked Prophet (1895) [35,621 word count]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435018469189Complex occult novel ... including an account of a spirit journey to a huge multi-planeted system far off in interstellar space.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The White Phantom (1868) [157,142 word count]
https://archive.org/details/whitephantomaro00bradgoogLady Blanche Vavasour resorts to murder when her former
art teacher and lover threatens to give her compromising letters to her fiance;.
After her marriage to the Duke of Arlington, Blanche attains the wealth she
desired, but is haunted by the avenging figure of the White Phantom - who knows
her murderous secret.
The Conflict (1903) [147,741 word count]
https://archive.org/details/conflict00bradrichThe Conflict draws on the supernatural in its examination of skepticism and the conflict between science and religion.
W. Brodie-Innes
Morag the Seal (1909) [91,928 word count]
https://archive.org/details/moragseal00inngoogThe tale of a deadly woman who steals men's souls
Old as the World (1909)
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433112045574A rattling good novel, with hundreds of incidents on every page, a hero and heroine who seldom talk in anything meaner than capitals...Mr. Brodie-Innes belongs to what one may call the Exoteric Occult School of novelists
The Devil's Mistress (1910)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433112045582this is a fictionalised tale of the true account of the testimonials of Isobel Gowdie, a woman who claimed to be a witch obedient to Satan
For the Soul of a Witch (1910) [120,078 word count]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010882560Set in the highlands of Scotland, a 16th century Knight embarks on a heroic quest for the Stone of the Wise. A tale of Romance, Witchcraft, and Exorcism
Alice Brown
The Wind Between the Worlds (1920) [78,755 word count]
https://archive.org/details/windbetweenworld00browThe story of a mother who loses a son in the war and seeks to communicate with him in the afterlife.
Charles Brockden Brown
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799) [94,568 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8223This classic of early American gothic literature is about a man suspected of committing murder while sleepwalking.
John Buchan
The Dancing Floor (1926) [89,717 word count]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000521990Vernon Milbourne, orphaned since childhood and haunted by a recurring dream, is friends with the protective lawyer and MP, Sir Edward Leithen. An Aegean cruise takes them to the mysterious island of Plakos, where Vernon is fascinated by the island's myths. Local superstitions turn to menace as Vernon's encounter with a beautiful woman results in obsession and adventure.
Witchwood (1927) [114,358 word count]
https://archive.org/details/witchwood00buchWitch Wood is a story of seventeenth-century witchcraft in the Wood of Caledon in the Scottish Borders. The parish minister tries in vain to prevent devil worship and protect his protestant congregation.
Robert Buchanan
The Moment After: A Tale of the Unseen (1890) [26,251 word count]
https://archive.org/details/the-moment-after-a-tale-of-the-unseen...narrated by a prison doctor who comes across a manuscript claiming to describe the experiences of a condemned man after he was hanged.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A Strange Story (1861) [182,222 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7701This story is told from the perspective of Dr. Allan Fenwicke, a rational materialist if there ever was one. He publically debunks the spiritualist beliefs of his fellow physician Dr. Lloyd, and thereby hastens his colleague's demise. Soon after, the Mysterious enters Dr. Fenwicke's logical life in the form of the lovely and dreamy Lillian and the wickedly amoral Mr. Margrave.
Mr. Margrave may or may not be the evil Louis Grayle made young again with black magic. But our hero Dr. Fenwicke will brave all to rescue his Lillian
Zicci: A Tale (1876) [33,124 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7608A precursor to Lytton's more well-known and celebrated Zanouni....The premise of a stranger of unknown background and with insights and powers unknown is the main crux.
Arthur J. Burks
The Great Amen (1938)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002462381a story about a red-haired soldier who claimed to have come back from the dead
Alice Campbell
Juggernaut (1928) [108,985 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27824Relentless, the Juggernaut moves from murder to murder--until he is discovered, behind the most innocent of masks... A story of medical science gone wrong.
Terence and Patrick Casey
The Strange Story of William Hyde (1916) [78,183 word count]
https://archive.org/details/strangestoryofwi00caseGuarded from the world by fear, none had dared breach the Poonan’s stronghold, but wealth and power was all the encouragement one man needed to pursue the riches of Jallan Batoe and face the wrath of the Green, Green God!
Robert W. Chambers
Some Ladies Make Haste (1908) [46,321 word count]
https://archive.org/details/cu31924021974765The protagonist, a student of mental suggestion, causes people to fall in love by posthypnotic suggestion
Quick Action (1914) [59,224 word count]
https://archive.org/details/quickaction00chamialanovel of romance and buried treasure in Florida within an occult framework of predestination in which future events in the lives of her guests are shown in Countess Athalie's crystal ball
Athalie (1915) [91,624 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27342Further adventures within Countess Athalie's crystal ball!
The Talkers (1923) [68,576 word count]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008917082An occult fantasy, in which a medical examiner reanimates a murdered woman with two souls.
Karel Čapek
Krakatit (1925) [103,007 word count]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015001801789Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain. The hero is a chemist Mr. Prokop, who was able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive. He calls it "Krakatit," after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause. After an accident in the laboratory an exhausted Prokop tumbles into Prague when he meets Tomes, who takes him into his care.
Cheiro
The Hand of Fate, or A Study of Destiny (1898) [23,330 word count]
https://archive.org/details/handoffateorstud00cheiA STUDY OF DESTINY is a tale of adventure and the supernatural set in Egypt and India in the late 19th century. It evokes the mystery and majesty of those ancient lands, and illustrates the tensions between those who rule and those who are ruled. Out of that tension a curse is born that haunts a man who must suffer for the sins of his parents.
Eleanor Carroll Chilton
Shadows Waiting (1927) [84,642 word count]
https://archive.org/details/shadows-waitingIt is primarily an intellectual novel, yet there is an exquisite and dream-like beauty about it that translates the theme to a plane where intelligence becomes more than acute analysis.
J. Storer Clouston
Two's Two (1916) [59,845 word count]
https://archive.org/details/two-s-twoinvolves a man who takes a chemical potion which releases his alter-ego
Mabel Collins
Idyll of the White Lotus (1884) [35,378 word count]
https://archive.org/details/idyllofwhitelotu00collThis work contains a story which has been told in all ages and among every people. It is the tragedy of the soul...Idyll of the White Lotus is one of the best-known occult works of Mabel Collins.
The Blossom and the Fruit (1888) [95,535 word count]
https://archive.org/details/blossomandfruit00collgoogIt is set an ambiguous time and place with a man who is instantly in love with this beautiful woman who it turns out is a magician. The story has them as reincarnated souls that are bound together throughout time. Fleta is attempting to join a mysterious order and fails. The plot of the book goes in many unexpected places but it is part fairy tale part occult.
Suggestion (1892) [51,520 word count]
https://archive.org/details/suggestion00collA thrilling tale about murder via hypnosis!
Morial the Mahatma (1892) [53,854 word count]
https://archive.org/details/morialmahatma00collA complex and powerful study of black magic.
Anne Crawford, the Baroness von Rabe
A Shadow on a Wave (1891)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112069651633&seq=101
F. Marion Crawford
Mr. Isaacs (1882) [82,042 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13340Marion Crawford's first novel; a sketch of the (then) modern Anglo-Indian life, with a touch of Oriental mystery
With the Immortals (1888) [81,179 word count]
https://archive.org/details/cu31924021988039Spend an evening with immortal geniuses discussing the philosophies of life.
Zoroaster (1891) [76,662 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16720Zoroaster began as a good-hearted prince, but meets defamation at the hands of an evil queen. His meditations bring powers greater than mortal man.
Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome (1902) [107,288 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31723Cecilia and Lamberto sense that they have met before long ago. In their dreams they relive their past lives in ancient Rome which seeks to bring them together in the present.
Theron Clark Crawford
A Man and his Soul (1894) [67,513 word count]
https://archive.org/details/manhissouloccult00crawThe protagonist finds himself semi-occultly able to glimpse the future of America, a quasi-Utopia dominated by advances in technology.
T. J. Horsley Curties
Ancient records, or, The Abbey of Saint Oswythe (1801) [248,862 word count]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100219501Classic of gothic horror involving the spectre of a nun haunting unconsecrated ground.
J. Barbey d'Aurevilly
Bewitched (1928)
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b317653In the story, a young married woman falls in love with a priest and commits suicide when the infatuation comes to nothing. Her widowed husband, who had been ruined by the French Revolution, then sets out to kill the priest out of jealousy... it inaugurates the Normandy cycle with a flourish, and, with its parallel themes of passionate and satanic possession, provides a further commentary on its author's evolving attitude to his continuing preoccupations.
Laura M. Dake
In the Crucible (1901) [51,813 word count]
https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_the_Crucible/GZgPAAAAYAAJ?hl=en
Charles Romyn Dake
A Strange Discovery (1899) [64,041 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8665Acting as a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, it follows the deathbed confession of a man who claimed to be a member of Pym's crew on his Antarctic expedition. He recounts the adventures that he and Pym encountered after piercing the mysterious white mist in that infamous account at the end of Poe's previous novel.
Clemence Dane
Legend (1918) [50,887 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63775a novel where the recently departed Madala Grey would exert her influence on her friends through the medium of the ever thickening fog enveloping the house they are all gathered in, before finally appearing in person, though she died that very morning
Gratiana Darrell
The Haunted Looking Glass (1897) [17,000 word count]
https://archive.org/details/the-haunted-looking-glass.-a-tale.-fulla well-told ghost story
William Stearns Davis
The Saint of The Dragon's Dale; a Fantastic Tale (1903) [23,112 word count]
https://archive.org/details/saintofdragonsda00davi_0
C. A. Dawson-Scott
The Haunting (1922)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t3222t04jA book of paranormal suspense set in Cornwall, England.
Warrington Dawson
The Guardian Demons (1927)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858006938793Occult thriller of demonic assault and possession; an unusual modern variant on the Orpheus myth, as husband loses psychic wife to malevolent spirits, studies Black Magic to recover her soul. A spiritualist medium acts as his Charon in this quest, with fatal results.
Thomas de Quincey
Klosterheim; or the Masque (1832)[65,803 word count]
https://archive.org/details/klosterheimorma00mackgoogwhen a mysterious, disguised figure known only as The Masque appears on the scene, apparently murdering and kidnapping Klosterheim's residents with impunity, terror runs rampant. Who can he be, and who is his next victim? The evil prince is determined to find out, and he devises an elaborate trap in the form of a masked ball, but little does he realize that The Masque is always one step ahead of him, plotting a deadly and inscrutable vengeance!
H. de Vere Stacpoole
Death, the Knight, and the Lady: A Ghost Story (1897) [26,165 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55708The tone is notably eerie for much of the time. The supernatural element involves a long-standing curse and two of the characters having flashbacks of themselves as different people living about 200 years earlier.
The City in the Sea (1925) [75,444 word count]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102895654a Lost World novel about an ancient Greek city surviving Under the Sea
Daniel Defoe
A System of Magick; or a History of the Black Art (1840) [136,716 word count]
https://archive.org/details/systemofmagic00defo
Charles Dickens
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1905) with Wilkie Collins [40,000 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/888Boasting two ghost stories from undisputed masters of the genre, it also uniquely demonstrates their glee in caricaturing themselves and one another
Florence Carpenter Dieudonné
Rondah, or Thirty-Three Years in a Star (1887) [36,518 word count]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100594761A highly imaginative story in which the protagonists are transported from an Adirondack mountain summit in a spacecraft propelled by an explosion "to a planet of unspecified origin which has only partly cooled. Winters last 20 years (during which they hibernate), and the little planet's most notable inhabitants are a bird people of vegetable origin who are born in enormous pods.
Francis W. Doughty
Mirrikh; or, A Woman from Mars (1892) [104,527 word count]
https://archive.org/details/mirrikhorwomanfr00dougeaves a fantastic story about the possibilities of trans-dimensional travel! The second part of this book will be of great interest to those traveling the spiritual path
Norman Douglas
They Went (1920) [63770 word count]
https://archive.org/details/theywent01douggoogIn They Went, published in 1921 and set in a mythic city in Brittany during the late Roman era, Douglas presents an allegory of goodness pitted against beauty.
Edmund Downey
A House of Tears (1888)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100262469a fantasy featuring a half-man half-snake
Brayhard: The Strange Adventures of One Ass and Seven Champions (1890) [69,227 word count]
https://archive.org/details/brayhardstrangea00down
The Ugly Man (1896)
access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000004507EThe Ugly Man concerns the disappearance of a great emerald. Detective mystery and horror elements are combined with humorous presentation
London's Peril (1900) [18,768 word count]
https://archive.org/details/londonsperil00downuoftset in the Near Future, warning against a Channel Tunnel being built by the French for an invasion plan
M. H. Dziewicki
Entombed in the Flesh (1897)
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003E6CAAt the edges of the universe, an encounter between Lucifer and Phantasto results in a challenge to Phantasto to become embodied in a person living in the city of London, and thus experience human existence.
Erckmann-Chatrian
The Forest House (1871) [42,286 word count]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwjurdBut when the young girl falls into a coma, the old man tells the tale of the curse that has haunted his family since the days when a robber baron spread terror throughout the land, helped by the old man’s ancestor, the wild huntsman
Hanns Heinz Ewers
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1927) [110,652 word count]
https://archive.org/details/sorcerersapprent0000hannThe story follows the journey of a young man named Anselmus, who becomes entangled in a world of magic and sorcery after falling in love with a woman named Veronika. Anselmus is taken under the wing of a powerful sorcerer named Archivarius Lindhorst, who teaches him the secrets of alchemy and the occult. However, Anselmus soon discovers that Lindhorst has ulterior motives and is not the benevolent mentor he appears to be.
David Dold
In the Words of Silence (1920)
https://archive.org/details/AllStoryWeeklyV106N0319200131/page/n41/mode/2up
Henrietta Dorothy Everett
Behind a Mask (1898)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9389309
White Webs (1912)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12186461
Dryasdust
The Wizard's Mantle (1902)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9351562A romantic fantasy of 17th Spain involving a hero with a cloak of invisibility
George Allan England
Darkness and Dawn (1914) [187,863 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7463
Cursed (1919) [93,121 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48068
Paul Ernst
Mask of Death (1936) [10,622 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32905A weird and uncanny tale about a strange criminal who called himself Doctor Satan, and the terrible doom with which he struck down his enemies
Edgar Fawcett
Solarion (1889) [34,799 word count]
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lippincott_s_Monthly_Magazine/LbYRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA297&printsec=frontcoverA scientist looking to find a connection between electricity and its possible effect on the mind uses technological advancements to enhance the intelligence of a dog without understanding the consequences of doing so.
The Ghost of Guy Thyrle (1895)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010002713343The story of an unfortunate chemist who discovered a way to project his spirit out of his body and come back again
Wilbur Fawley
Shuddering Castle (1934) [93,413 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71806Science fiction horror novel of radio communication with Mars and a frightening but plausible visitor from the Jungles of Mars to the world, whose presence in the old spooky castle of an eccentric millionaire-scientist on Long Island causes great fear to its inmates when night falls
Claude Farrère
The House of the Secret (1923) [52,094 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65709A novel of psychic vampirism
William M. Ferrar
Artabanzanus; the Demon of the Great Lake (1896) [104,660 word count]
As the subtitle suggests, this is an allegory, but the motif is of a lost race nature; i.e., a vast populous land under the ground that in some respects parallels various surface nations but differs in some technological and psychic sciences. The adventures taking place are fantastic in the extreme and view it as legitimate lost race despite its mild religious bent and dream-rationale
https://archive.org/details/Artabanzanus
Boyd Fisher
Immortal Andrew (1917) [56,953 word count]
Andrew Keppel is poised for success, about to be married to the lovely Eleanor Peabody and offered a cushy General Manager position over his soon-to-be-father-in-law's factories. All that changes after a burglar breaks in and steals his fiance's wedding gift and then Andrew is hit by a mail truck. When he awakens, he rushes home to find that his family is weeping over his corpse and he now inhabits the body of the burglar. And that's just the beginning!
Part 1: https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1917-06_61_1/page/74/mode/1up
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1917-07_61_2/page/351/mode/1up
Part 3: https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1917-08_61_3/page/548/mode/2up
Part 4: https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1917-09_61_4/page/748/mode/2up
Mary A. Fisher
Among the Immortals, in the Land of Desire: A Glimpse of the Beyond (1916)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100486937
Alfred C. Fleckenstein
The Prince of Gravas: A Story of the Past (1898) [60,662 word count]
https://archive.org/details/princeofgravasst00flec
Keith Fleming
"Can Such Things Be?" or, The Weird of the Beresfords: A Study in Occult Will-Power (1889) [51,070 word count]
Sensational weird thriller of murder, mayhem and madness embellished with numerous supernatural elements, including a family curse, ghostly visitations, a spectral violin with music, etc. Horror piled upon horror, as was the convention of the time, but entertaining as an example of the 'raw head and bloody bones' side of Victorian weird fiction, lurid and unsophisticated
https://archive.org/details/can-such-things-be-or-the-weird-of-the-b-1
Esther Forbes
A Mirror for Witches (1928)
Doll Bilby is a young girl, denounced by a relative as being a witch, and then caught up in the hysteria of the Salem witch trials.
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015003675520
Ronald Fraser
Flower Phantoms (1926) [32,248 word count]
"The erotic awakening of a young woman . . . Judy, a student at Kew Gardens . . . is engaged to a personable young man who does not have the ability to arouse her, though she likes him, and she is disturbed by the utilitarian, materialistic life-philosophy of her businessman brother. She becomes more and more sensitive to the hidden life of the plants at Kew, and comes to see them as personalities, with the giant orchid in the role of passionate lover. . . . Told with delicate imagery and fine perceptions, a minor rococoism of art deco literature." - E.F. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (1983)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b242899
Landscape with Figures (1926) [65,832 word count]
Oriental fantasy based around the “experiences that have come in contemplating the landscape, flowers and figures in Chinese pictures and on their porcelain.”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3834498
Neal Fyne
The Land of the Living Dead (1897) [75,698 word count]
Castaways on uncharted island fall under seemingly supernatural power of life and death held by the Mighty Justin, Lord of the Land of the Living Dead.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086824877
Théophile Gautier
Spirite: A Fantasy (1877) [45,452 word count]
The grand unconsummated love affair between a young man and a ghost, this is the haunting tale of Spirite - a girl who is hopelessly devoted to the protagonist, but dedicates herself to a nunnery in despair, and dies before he even notices her presence.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014173728
Bertram Gayton
The Gland Stealers (1922) [81,487 word count]
Gran'pa is ninety-five, possessed of £100,000, a fertile imagination, and a good physique. He sees in the papers accounts of the theory of rejuvenation by means of gland-grafting.
Nothing will satisfy him but that the experiment should be made upon himself. He acquires a gorilla, a hefty murderous brute, and the operation is performed with success. That is only the beginning.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48975
Wirt Gerrare
Rufin's Legacy (1892)
features a Russian female spy who uses her astral body nefariously
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000004A11E
J. U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith
These two novels feature thrilling cases of Giesy's and Smith's famous occult detective Semi-Dual!
Black & White (1920)
Part 1: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750756&view=1up&seq=11
Part 2: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750806&view=1up&seq=32
Part 3: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750855&view=1up&seq=56
Part 4: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750905&view=1up&seq=78
Wolf of Erlik (1921)
Part 1: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750715&view=1up&seq=5
Part 2: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071744866&view=1up&seq=30
Part 3: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071744916&view=1up&seq=76
Part 4: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071744965&view=1up&seq=109
Inez Haynes Gillmore
Angel Island (1914) [60,111 word count]
Five men are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by beautiful winged women
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4637
Out of the Air (1921) [52,574 word count]
David Lindsey, a young aviator, recently returned from France [fighting in the Great War, WW I], retires to an old house in New England to do some writing, and discovers gradually that the place is haunted. He soon finds out that his mysterious visitors are trying to give him a message which he cannot understand but which he soon realizes is becoming a matter of life and death.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38060
William Godwin
St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799) [195,062 word count]
St. Leon "is a genuine supernatural fiction: the cold-hearted Reginald St Leon meets a wandering Jewish alchemist who gives him the Philosophers' Stone, by virtue of which he can make gold, and the Elixir of Life, by virtue of which he gains Immortality"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53707
Nancy McKay Gordon
Her Bungalow: An Atlantean Memory (1898) [38,433 word count]
An occult novel in which two souls sent out of Heaven are reunited by faith in Atlantis.
https://archive.org/details/herbungalowatlan00gord
James Grant
The Dead Tryst (1874) [48,888 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68789
A Haunted Life (1880) [50,793 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68790
William Child Green
The Abbot of Montserrat; or, The Pool of Blood (1826) [74,220 word count]
Green's abbot is Father Obando, a creature of one virtue and a thousand crimes who seeks religious power and sexual pleasure. He signs the contact of blood offered to him by the demon, Zatanai, then embarks upon a campaign of atrocities. He becomes the abbot of Montserrat by murdering the previous abbot and converting this holy fortress into a vast torture chamber.
Vol. 1: https://books.google.com/books?id=uQfp5tPZ4vEC
Vol. 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=N8RO4yIW0egC
N. Ter Gregor
The Star of the Sea (1897)
the protagonists of the tale, beginning in Persia in the sixth century BCE, finally achieve romantic union after travels Underground, Under the Sea, to the Moon, and into the deep past and to Victorian England via magical Time Travel.
https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003EB08
Beatrice Grimshaw
The Sorcerer's Stone (1914)
The stone is said to have magical properties and Marjorie becomes obsessed with unlocking its secrets.As she delves deeper into the history of the stone, Marjorie discovers a world of magic and sorcery beyond her wildest dreams.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72378
Charles F. Grindrod
The Shadow of the Raggedstone (1909) [169,979 word count]
Long regional novel of dark deeds and the supernatural set in the Malvern Hills region during the twelfth century.
https://archive.org/details/the-shadow-of-the-raggedstone
Carl Grosse
Horrid Mysteries (1796) [186,255 word count]
One of the notorious "horrid" gothics that was spoken of in Austen's Northanger Abbey...The hero of the tale, the Marquis of Grosse, finds himself embroiled in a secret revolutionary society which advocates murder and mayhem in pursuit of an early form of communism. He creates a rival society to combat them and finds himself hopelessly trapped between the two antagonistic forces. The book has been both praised and lambasted for its lurid portrayal of sex, violence and barbarism.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001782287
John M. Hanifin
The Blind Men and the Devil (1891) [as Phineas] [47,984 word count]
describes the experiences of a married couple who, mistaken for dead, are dumped into a river and discover an Underground world inhabited by a blind race
https://archive.org/details/the-blind-men-and-the-devil
John William Harding
A Conjuror of Phantoms (1898) [28,936 word count]
A short novel written in a lively style set in downtown New York, its hero an independent young man of such refined aesthetic sensibilities that he can "conjure phantoms." The story involves jewels, pawn brokers, rare books, crimes, a magic herb, and an eccentric and possibly immortal man.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100589087
Olive Harper
The Sociable Ghost (1903) [54,091 word count]
Being the Adventures of a Reporter Who Was Invited by the Sociable Ghost to a Grand Banquet, Ball, and Convention Under the Ground of Old Trinity Churchyard, a True Tale of the Things He Saw and Did Not See While He Was Not There
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433043009319
Franz Hartmann
An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (1887) [41,010 word count]
Hartmann writes poetically about the beauty of the Alps and skillfully weaves the actual beliefs and practices of the ancient Rosicrucians into a tale that includes magic and an alchemical laboratory, mind-reading dwarfs, and unexpected revelations.
https://archive.org/details/withadeptsanadv00hartgoog
The Talking Image of Urur (1890) [91,017 word count]
Set in the Utopian City of Kakodumbala in Africa, from which perspective a Satire of Earthly Religions is mounted... The story represents the adventures of a 'theosophical Don Quixote' who seeks for wisdom everywhere except in the right place"
https://archive.org/details/the-talking-image-of-urur_202303
Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in Untersberg (1895) [38,175 word count]
A team of modern scientists explore the Untersberg in order to disprove the existence of gnomes and Hartmann's protagonist, separated from the main party, runs smack into them. He teaches them logic, rationality and scientific method, resulting in their loss of natural innocence, war with the fairy realm, and the destruction of their kingdom.
https://archive.org/details/among-the-gnomes-1
Julian Hawthorne
A Goth from Boston (1919) [29,477 word count]
While on an errand to gently turn down a proposal from Cabot Selwyn, a Professor of Biology, Martha Klemm meets a most intriguing and alluring beauty--working in the service of the good doctor as mother maid! Fate and the forces of nature conspire to throw the trio together time and again: can the Doctor escape his ivory tower understanding of biology and embrace the human?
Part 1: https://archive.org/details/AllStoryV105N0119191220/page/n9/mode/2up
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/asw-1919-12-27/page/185/mode/2up
Fires Rekindled (1919) [23,377 word count]
Against the backdrop of the Great War, an American visitor in London doing research on his ancestor is struck by a peculiar deja vu--much stronger than the mere sense he has been to the house where he is staying, he finds he knows of details that he could not possibly, even had he once visited in his youth. The strange sense sends him on a quest for knowledge to uncover a past-life love and solve a century-old possible murder!
https://archive.org/details/asw_1919_06_21/page/n69/mode/2up
D. F. Haynes
The Romance of the Castle (1841) [84,231 word count]
"This night an awful messenger sent from that dread tribunal from whose power there is no appeal, by signs terrific foretold my fate approached—foretold my final moment. “Catherine, behold!” was all that issued from the specter’s lips, but in its hand it held a scroll which fixed my irrevocable doom, in letters which fascinated while they appalled my sight."
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwkd8x
Ernest G. Henham
Bonanza: A Story of the Outside (1901) [72,855 word count]
a tale of the Arctic Gold Rush in which prospectors stumble across a valley protected by a magnetic Force Field
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112046434384
Krum: A Study of Consciousness (1904)
a reincarnation fantasy
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t3cz4s96n
The Feast of Bacchus (1907) [85,552 word count]
In the remote hamlet of Thorlund stands the manor house known as the Strath, an eerie place that exercises a mysterious hold over anyone who enters it. The site of tragedy in 1742 when its owner, Sir John Hooper, turned highwayman and met his death on the gallows, the Strath has remained vacant for over a century, a pair of hideous masks its only occupants.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100324507
Furze the Cruel (1907) [143,993 word count]
Furze the Cruel is the first of Trevena's trilogy of novels focusing on life in Dartmoor, a land peopled by strange and often grotesque characters and haunted by pixies and witchcraft.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34543
William Henry Herbert
The Haunted Homestead (1840)
Part 1: http://books.google.com/books?id=uMgkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA185#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 2: http://books.google.com/books?id=uMgkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 3: http://books.google.com/books?id=uMgkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA265#v=onepage&q&f=false
Paul Heyes
At the Ghost Hour: The Fair Abigail (1894) [10,000 word count]
A man encounters the woman he once loved and is fascinated by her, eventually discovering that she holds a dark secret.
https://archive.org/details/fairabigail
At the Ghost Hour: Mid-Day Magic (1894)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001197334
At the Ghost Hour: The House of the Unbelieving Thomas (1894) [13,035 word count]
The tale gives us a good picture of the two ghosts which seem to have all the foibles of regular people. They haunt a home, but the occupants are not really bothered by them.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33878
Robert Hichens
Both his supernatural novels – Flames: A London Phantasy (1897) and The Dweller on the Threshold (1911) – depict the malign consequences of intensifying male relationships through spiritual means, the latter tale very vividly depicting the horrors of psychic exposure.
Flames (1897) [171,452 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14253
Dweller on the Threshold (1911) [52,288 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14176
E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Devil's Elixir (1829) [129,380 word count]
In the novel The Devil's Elixir, Hoffmann recounts the creepy exploits of a monk who is driven to the brink of madness by a mysterious substance--and a mysterious, possibly demonic figure who bears a striking resemblance to the monk himself.
Vol. 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36494
Vol. 2: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37005
William Holt-White
The Man Who Dreamed Right (1910) [65,979 word count]
Science fantasy novel about Mymms, a humble British clerk who, while dreaming, can foresee the future. Ultimately, on the eve of a world war over who will possess him, he dreams something so horrible he cannot speak about it
https://archive.org/details/the-man-who-dreamed-right
Sydney Horler
The Curse of Doone (1928)
Returning to London from a job in Venice, secret service member Ian Heath rescues a woman from being kidnapped while at the theatre. He learns she is an orphan who has come back to England to stay with her uncle, an inventor who lives in an old country house on the edge of Dartmoor. The house is reportedly haunted by the "vampire of Doone Hall".
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/x5x6Bi1_228C?hl=en&gl=us&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHg7qFoPSCAxX0lmoFHfr-B4AQre8FegQICxAH
Robert E. Howard
Skull-Face (1929) [33,140 word count]
Mystery, terror, blood n guts, romance, treachery, death, fear, survival -- an awesomely delightful smorgasbord of mucking fisticuffs and mighty fun! Thick and dangerous plots filled with murky motivations and blood-thrilling battles of wit and brawn! Massive fists of powerful writing pummel the readers' senses into an euphoric overload until everything hums with the passion of a master storyteller.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71268
Black Canaan (1936) [13,023 word count]
A tale of the Southern swamps, and voodoo
brought from blackest Africa—a spine-freezing,
blood-chilling story of a beautiful
quadroon girl who wielded bitter magic.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71168
Emeric Hulme-Beaman
Ozmar the Mystic (1896)
Occult mystery novel featuring Oriental adept who possesses, and uses, supernatural powers
https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000423EA
Fergus Hume
The Gentleman Who Vanished (1890) [30,622 word count]
A dark and eerie murder mystery with themes of theosophy at play.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55417
A Creature of the Night (1891) [48,696 word count]
a young Englishman loses his way and finds himself lost in an eerie graveyard. Seeing a mysterious woman emerge from one of the tombs, he follows her to a deserted mansion, where he witnesses a murder worthy of the Borgias. How can such a crime take place undetected in the prosaic nineteenth century? And is the woman a vampire? a ghoul? or an altogether more earthly villain...?
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55457
The Nameless City (1893) [56,176 word count]
A lost race story involving a nameless city in Majorca, serving as the capital of the Gypsy race.
https://archive.org/details/namelesscityromm00grai
Isabella Ingalese
Mata the Magician (1901) [63,294 word count]
A rare occult novel set in the 1830s in New York state featuring psychic phenomena and reincarnation
https://archive.org/details/mata-the-magician
Linked Lives (1903) [60,113 word count]
Occult fantasy on the theme of reincarnation.
https://archive.org/details/linked-lives
Margaret Irwin
Still She Wished For Company (1924) [73,943 word count]
The story moves between the 1920s and the 1770s, following two heroines...The two heroines can see one another from time to time, momentarily, through some rent in the fabric of time, but never manage to meet and interact. Their lives converge as Juliana's world is turned upside down; her father dies and her notoriously wicked and mysterious brother, Lucian Clare, returns to take his position as head of the family.Lucian recognizes a supernatural power in Juliana, and uses this to reach out to Jan through the ages.
https://books.google.de/books?id=qbRPvif8AncC
G. P. R. James
The Commissioner; or, De Lunatico Inquirendo (1843) [520 pages]
Satirical science fiction - a Lunarian is sent to Earth.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t4rj4mq32
The Castle of Ehrenstein; Its Lords, Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants, Earthly and Unearthly (1847) [156,165 word count]
"... his masterpiece of terror ... a superb portrayal of a ghost-riddled castle"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50325
Edgar Jepson
The Garden at No. 19 (1910) [63,453 word count]
Considered mandatory reading by Aleister Crowley for its stunning portrayal of modern paganism, The Garden at #19 is a masterpiece of terror and wonder worthy of comparison to the best of Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen.
https://archive.org/details/the-garden-at-19
The Horned Shepherd (1927) [24,290 word count]
Wander the magical world of the Valley of Fine Fleeces with a fascinating cast of characters. Meet Big Anna, keeper of both the pagan flame and Cross; a Princess aflame for a strange lover; an Egyptian Priest, steward of mysteries; Friar Paul, lean and sinister; and Saccabe the Black Goat, Father of Many Flocks. Above all you will encounter the mysterious Shepherd of supernatural radiance, among whose curls nestle two small soft horns. Events converge in the forest on Midsummer Eve at full moon as celebrants arrive with meat, bread and wine for the Feast. The Wise Ones recognize the Horned Shepherd as an ancient fertility god who should be sacrificed to enrich the land.
https://archive.org/details/the-horned-shepherd
George Lindsay Johnson
The Weird Adventures of Professor Delapine of the Sorbonne (1916) [117,014 word count]
"Through a series of seances the professor changes his views toward spiritualism. The main story line ends with two marriages ... and includes a coup at the tables in Monte Carlo."
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56713
Mary Johnston
The Witch (1914) [106,659 word count]
A bold tale of witchcraft and deceit
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53109
Sweet Rocket (1920) [43,302 word count]
Sweet Rocket is an old Southern plantation where a few congenial spirits have gathered together and where the conversation gravitates naturally toward the finer things in life...A metaphysical maze
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56101
The Exile (1927) [64,577 word count]
in the indefinite Near Future, a great but unidentified country falls prey to a dictatorship; resisters, including the protagonist, are exiled to Eldorado Island, which he remembers, mysteriously, from three centuries previous.
https://archive.org/details/the-exile
Maurus Jókai
Told by the Death's Head (1902) [89,411 word count]
It has humour, darkness, witches, Satan, thieves, love, 21 crimes in all. Very enjoyable, and excellent translation. Let the ruling begin!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34770
Coulson Kernahan
A Dead Man's Diary, written after His Decease (1890) [32,081 word count]
Recounts a dead man's journey through Hell
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72971
The Red Peril (1908) [57,160 word count]
envisages a plot to bomb “giddy, fashionable Brighton”,
masterminded by a quartet of “Nihilist, Anarchist” terrorists, made up of the Polish Vinski, the
Germans Heinzt and Schwynter, and an American Jew named Boker
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068971496
Jessie Douglas Kerruish
The Undying Monster (1922) [75,300 word count]
With a vengeful werewolf and a dark family secret this is an early horror original crawling with supernatural suspense. An ancient family curse and a demonic creature are the focus of this horror mystery penned by the imaginative Jessie Douglas Kerruish.
https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kerruish/monster/monster.html
Rufus King
The Fatal Kiss Mystery (1928)
Ramier Bellamy kisses Drusilla Duveen good-by and prepares to make himself invisible. but something goes wrong with his experiment--and when the machine he invented starts to hum, it is Drusilla, not he, who vanishes!
That's just the first in a series of mysterious events that will keep you guessing--and wondering.
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435010085041
Russell Kirk
Old House of Fear (1961)
Russell Kirk's 1961 Gothic novel "Old House of Fear" delivers mystery, murder, mayhem, and a maiden in distress on a remote and haunted island in the Hebrides Islands of northern Scotland, along with some subtle satire on the politics of the era.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b102382
