The Haunted Hotel

A family curse, a moor at night and the tracks of a gigantic hound beside a dead man. Sherlock Holmes takes the case, but the real star is the fear that something supernatural is loose on Dartmoor.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Lawyer Utterson investigates why his respectable friend protects a violent stranger named Hyde. Stevenson's 1886 novella is built as a mystery, and the answer is far worse than anyone suspects.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange accidents haunt the Paris Opera, and a voice in the walls is coaching a young soprano. Leroux's 1910 novel unfolds like an investigation into a ghost who turns out to be terribly real.

Gaston Leroux

A shape-shifting being from Egypt stalks a rising London politician, and four narrators try to piece together what it wants. Published in 1897, it outsold Dracula at first and is subtitled, fittingly, A Mystery.

Richard Marsh

An Egyptologist is found unconscious beside a mummified hand, and his household waits for the attacker to return. Stoker's 1903 novel turns a London house into a locked-room mystery with an ancient queen at its center.

Bram Stoker