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• Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories (partial serial archives)

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• The Dragon Done It (included on a Baen CD image; c2008), ed. by Eric Flint and Michael D. Resnick
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• David Poindexter's Disappearance (7-story collection), by Julian Hawthorne (PDF 1.4 files at Wayback Machine)
• David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales (5-story collection), by Julian Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• A Difficult Problem, The Staircase at the Heart's Delight, and Other Stories, by Anna Katharine Green (Gutenberg texts)
• The Long Arm, and Other Detective Stories (London: Chapman and Hall, 1895), by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Brander Matthews, A. Eubule Evans, and George Ira Brett (page images at HathiTrust)
• McAllister and His Double (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Arthur Train, illust. by F. C. Yohn and Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Old Stone House, and Other Stories, by Anna Katharine Green (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Panama Plot: Pan-American Adventures of Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1918), by Arthur B. Reeve (page images at Google; US access only)
• Police!!!, by Robert W. Chambers, illust. by Henry Hutt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe: Containing The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and the Man That Was Used Up (only issue of this intended serial edition; Philadelphia: W. H. Graham, 1843), by Edgar Allan Poe
  • HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Tales (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Edgar Allan Poe
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tales and Sketches, by a Country Schoolmaster (New York: Printed by J. and J. Harper, 1829), by William Leggett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840), by Edgar Allan Poe
  • both volumes: HTML with commentary at eapoe.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1897), by Cleveland Moffett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)
• The Thinking Machine: Being a True and Complete Statement of Several Intricate Mysteries Which Came Under the Observation of Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., Etc. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1907), by Jacques Futrelle, illust. by Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thinking Machine on the Case (without frontispiece; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Jacques Futrelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), by Michelle Robinson
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Darkly Perfect World: Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Stanley Orr (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet (originally published 1997; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Shawn Rosenheim (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Argosy (American fiction magazine, founded 1882) (partial serial archives)
• Young's Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Saturday Evening Post (partial serial archives)

• Adventure (partial serial archives)

• Romance (Ridgway magazine, 1919-1929) (partial serial archives)

• Dream World (1957) (partial serial archives)
• Planet Stories (partial serial archives)
• If (science fiction magazine) (partial serial archives)
• Frank Reade Library, contrib. by Luis Senarens (partial serial archives)
• Frank Reade Weekly Magazine, contrib. by Luis Senarens (partial serial archives)

• The Acolyte (SF fan magazine, 1942-1946) (partial serial archives)
• Mimosa, ed. by Nicki Lynch and Richard W. Lynch (partial serial archives)

• Sea Stories (partial serial archives)

• The Best Short Stories of [the Year], and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, ed. by Edward J. O'Brien (partial serial archives)
• Munsey's (partial serial archives)
• O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories (partial serial archives)
• The Black Cat (partial serial archives)
• Snappy Stories (partial serial archives)
• The Raymond Carver Review (full serial archives)

• Action Stories (partial serial archives)
• Frontier Stories (partial serial archives)
• Five-Novels (partial serial archives)
• Triple-X (Western and adventure story magazine, 1924-1936) (partial serial archives)
• Ranch Romances (partial serial archives)
• Western Story Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Cowboy Stories (partial serial archives)
• Wild West Weekly (partial serial archives)
• The Popular Magazine (partial serial archives)

• The Raymond Carver Review (full serial archives)

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