Mystery

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Mystery, mysteries, or mysterious may refer to:

Culture

Genres

• Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction
• Mystery film, a genre in cinema

Literature

• Mysteries (novel) or Mysterier, an 1892 existentialist novel by Knut Hamsun
• Mystery (novel), a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub
• Mystery, a cat character in Emily the Strange

Film

• Mystery (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film
• Mystery (2014 film), a 2014 Chinese suspense thriller adventure film
• Mystery, Alaska (1999), a comedy-drama film

Music

Artists

• Mystery (band), a Canadian progressive-rock band formed in 1986

Albums

• Mystery (Mystery EP), the 1992 debut album by the Canadian progressive-rock band Mystery
• Mystery (Vanilla Fudge album), a 1984 album by the American psychedelic-rock band Vanilla Fudge
• Mystery (Faye Wong album), a 1994 album by the Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong
• Mystery Guest (album), a 2008 album by the Taiwanese Mandopop singer Yoga Lin
• Mysterious (1988), an album by the Japanese singer Shizuka Kudō
• Mystery (2006), an album by the Taiwanese-American Mandopop singer Evonne Hsu

Songs

• "Mysterious" (song), a song from the 2005 album Jentina by the British hip hop/R&B rapper and singer-songwriter Jentina
• "Mystery" (Live song), a song from the 2006 album Songs from Black Mountain by the alternative-rock band Live
• "Mysterious", a song from the 1999 album Eye II Eye by the German heavy-metal band Scorpions
• "Mystery", a song from the album The Last in Line (1984) by the American heavy-metal band Dio
• "Mystery", a comic song written and performed by Hugh Laurie for the British sketch-comedy television series A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995)
• "Mystery", a 1984 pop song, sometimes jazz, by the American a cappella group The Manhattan Transfer
• "Mystery", a song from the album Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (1999) by the psychedelic-rock band The Olivia Tremor Control

Shows

• Mystery (television), a children's television show
• Mystery!, a long-running PBS program showcasing British detective fiction
• Mystery TV, a Canadian digital television channel

Episodes

• "Mystery" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of the children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse

People

• Mystery (pickup artist) (born 1971), stage name of entertainer Erik Von Markovik

Religion

• God is viewed as Mystery by theologians such as Ian Ramsey, Karl Rahner, and Gordon D. Kaufman
• Greco-Roman mysteries, ancient religious cults whose rituals were not revealed to outsiders
• Mystery play, such as the Passion play
• Sacred mysteries, beliefs which cannot be explained by normal reasoning, or esoteric teachings which are kept secret from the non-initiated

Vessels

• Mystery (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe
• Mystery (lugger), a Mount's Bay lugger which made a voyage from Cornwall to Australia in 1855
  • Spirit of Mystery, a modern recreation of Mystery
• USS Mystery, the name of more than one proposed or actual United States Navy ships

Other

• The mysterious phenomena studied by Charles Fort
• Mysterious (horse) (1970–1988), Thoroughbred racehorse

See also

Wikiquote has quotations related to: Mystery

• Anomaly (disambiguation), a deviation or departure from the normal
• Paranormal, beyond normal experience or scientific explanation
• Fushigi (disambiguation), Japanese for "mystery" or "secret"
• Mystère (disambiguation)
• Secret
• Unsolved problem