The mystery stories in this collection relate inexplicable episodes of madness and revenge, terror and obsession, the grotesque and the arabesque, the scientific and the supernatural. Sometimes we find ghosts or other phantoms at the heart of the mystery, but in other cases eerie incidents arise out of apparently everyday situations and these ordinary origins make the uncanniness even more chilling.In Twelve Mystery Stories, Jack Adrian brings together works by well-known writers in the crime and mystery genre, such as Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle, and rarer stories which have for decades been unavailable to readers. Here readers will find a vast array of detectives and villains, and a multitude of murder methods and motives.