Subject heading
Detective and mystery stories
96 books carry this heading. It is a source-library term, kept as recorded; related traditions and headings below are drawn from co-occurrence, not editorial judgment.
Related traditions
- Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends35
- Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists25
- Demonology, angelology, and possession7
- Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis7
- Ancient religions, animism, and ritual7
- Initiatory orders and secret societies4
- Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition4
- Legendary beings and transformations4
Related subjects
- Fiction74
- Juvenile fiction37
- Children's fiction33
- Horror tales26
- Mystery and detective stories26
- Short Stories24
- Horror stories21
- Classic Literature20
- Crime20
- murder20
- American Horror tales19
- Gothic fiction19
- Horror fiction19
- Crime, fiction18
- horror18
- American literature16
- catalepsy16
- first-person narrative16
- Homicide15
- Hyperesthesia15
Books
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Club dead
Charlaine Harris
2003
Alfred Hichcock's Haunted Houseful
Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Banbery
1961
Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs
2010
Christina's Ghost
Betty Ren Wright
1985
Colpo di scena a Hollywood
Elisabetta Dami
2015
Haunted house
Peggy Parish
1971
Kneeknock Rise
Natalie Babbitt
1970
Night of the Werewolf
Franklin W. Dixon
1979
Shipwreck on the Pirate Islands
Elisabetta Dami, Manuel Manzano, David Nel·lo
2005
Slumber Party
Christopher Pike
1985
Tentacles
Roland Smith
2009
The Creeping Shadow
Jonathan Stroud
2016
The Hollow Boy
Jonathan Stroud
2015
The case of the U.S. Navy adventure
Deborah Perlberg
2004
The magic Faraway Tree
Enid Blyton
1943
Werewolf Skin
Robert Lawrence Stine
1997
The gold bug, The purloined letter, and other tales (Eleonora / Gold-Bug / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1898
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Beware After Dark! The World's Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror
1929
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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
1928
The stranger vanishes
Wendy Corsi Staub
2023
Poe (Assignation / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Ms Found in a Bottle)
Edgar Allan Poe
1897
Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)
Edgar Allan Poe
1895
The Assignation and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
1880
The Omnibus of Crime
1929