Hauntings and Horrors by Alden H. Norton

This man picks up the card, but, since its written in French, he doesn't know what it says. An attractive woman places a card on a table where a man is seated. 'The Mysterious Card' by Cleveland Moffett sustained my attention throughout. According to the editors, Ghosh published a book in 1904 entitled _1,001 Indian Nights._ The title alone of that book gives a good idea as to what it is about, and I plan to read it. Now this is a find! It is a gripping adventure story about a man captured by a Raja and forced to fight a wild beast. The best story in this book is 'Jungli Admi' by Sarath Kumar Ghosh.

Not a _The King in Yellow_ story, but it had a cleaner prose style than the stories in the _King in Yellow_ cycle. 'The Messenger' is a supernatural horror story by Robert W. A man falls overboard from a ship the others on the ship don't hear his pleas for help and his attempt to swim back to the ship fails. 'Man Overboard' is a three page story written by Winston Churchill when he was a young man. This long story goes in various directions and I found it to be a slog. 'A Study of Destiny' by Count Leigh de Hamong, probably published in the 1890s, is a horror story set during an archaeology expedition in Egypt. The stories, though, were a mixed bag for me. This book is a collection of short stories in fantasy, horror, and science fiction that were published-roughly-between 18, and which the editors consider to be 'forgotton gems'. I recently purchased a used paperback of this book from Myopic Books, a used bookstore the size of a two story house.

Hauntings and Horrors by Alden H. Norton