Horror Various Authors: The Terror Express - Railway Tales. v1. 17 May 2026

[GrannyGrump]

Are you prepared to board this train? This will be no ordinary commute. It will carry you into the dark unknown: you will encounter haunted stations, mysterious passengers, cursed railcars, and ghostly manifestations. Some of these are crime stories, some are psychological horror, some are touched by the supernatural. So step in, take a seat, and begin the journey.

By various authors.
My own compilation.

A list of the titles:

Spoiler:

MURDER AND MAYHEM

A Railway Panic – 1856

by Amelia B. Edwards
(1831–1892)

Going Through the Tunnel – 1869

by Ellen Wood
(1814–1887)

A Railway Adventure – 1875

by Anonymous

The Man with the Cough – 1894

by Mary Louisa Molesworth
(1839–1921)

A Mystery of the Underground – 1897

by “John Oxenham”
(William Dunkerley)
(1852–1941)

The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel – 1897

by Mrs. L.T. Meade
(1844–1914)
and Robert Eustace
(1854–1943)

The Lost Special – 1898

by Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859–1930)

The Man with the Watches – 1898

by Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859–1930)

The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway – 1901

by Baroness Orczy
(1865–1947)

Sir Gilbert Murrell’s Picture – 1905

by Victor L. Whitechurch
(1868–1933)

The Mysterious Railway Passenger – 1906

by Maurice Leblanc
(1864–1941)

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

[The Secret of a Train – 1909

by G. K. Chesterton
(1874–1936)

The Sud Express – 1909

by Morley Roberts
(1857–1942)

The Engine-Driver – 1866

by Andrew Halliday
(1830–1877)

A Journey – 1899

by Edith Wharton
(1862–1937)

The Twisted Inn – 1915

by Sir Hugh Walpole
(1884–1941)

Lost In The Fog – 1918

by J. D. Beresford
(1873–1947)

Corstophine – 1924

by E F Benson
(1867–1940)

Branch Line to Benceston – 1946

by Sir Andrew Caldecott
(1884–1951)

THE SUPERNATURAL

[A Railroad Journey – 1859

by Anonymous

[/B] The Four-Fifteen Express[/B] – 1866

by Amelia B. Edwards
(1831–1892)

The Signal-Man – 1866

by Charles Dickens
(1812–1870)

The Tale of a Gas-Light Ghost – 1867

by Anonymous

The Conductor’s Story – 1889

by Zoe Dana Underhill
(1847–1934)

A Strange Night – 1897

by Lucy G. Moberly
(1860–1931)

The Spectre of Severn Tunnel – 1899

by “E. Thurlow”
(Editha Aceituna Thurlow Griffin)
(1876–1949)

The Strange Story of Engine Number 651 – 1902

by Victor L. Whitechurch
(1868–1933)

The Bend of the Road – 1905

by Arthur Quiller-Couch
(1863–1944)

Miss Slumbubble — and Claustrophobia – 1907

by Algernon Blackwood
(1869–1951)

Railhead– — 1908

by Perceval Landon
(1869–1927)

The Barford “Snake” – 1909

by Edgar Wallace
(1875–1932)

A Romance of the Piccadilly Tube – 1919

by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson
(1835–1924)

In the Tube – 1922

by E F Benson
(1867–1940)

A Short Trip Home – 1927

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896–1940)

The Fisherman’s Special – 1939

by H. L. Thomson
(?-?)

THE LIGHTER SIDE

[The Phantom Fourth – 1867

by Anonymous

My “First Class” Ghost Story – 1871

by Anonymous

Cannibalism in the Cars – 1868

by Mark Twain
(1835–1910)

The Invalid’s Story – 1882

by Mark Twain
(1835–1910)

The Parlor-Car Ghost – 1895

by Elisabeth Cavazza
(1849–1926)

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