Strange Travel Stories

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