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