Great Tales of the Supernatural
by John R. Crossland (Editor), J. M. Parrish (Editor)
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Contains 43 tales of the paranormal by authors such as A.E. Coppard, Guy de Maupassant, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, E.F. Benson and W.W. Jacobs.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Great Tales of the Supernatural
- Original title
- Great Tales of the Supernatural
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Ralph Wyndam Trevor; Beau Maturin; Vera Cheswardine; James Dearth; Father Brown; Jane Marple (show all 23); Sir Henry Clithering; Dolly Bantry; Barnaby Woolf; Ulrich Kunsi; Gaspard Hari; Jorkens; John Jarvey; Angus MacIntyre; Alice Palethorpe; George Mason; Vincent Grieve; Sir Hercules Occam; Yan Yast Vanderscamp; Nicholaus Geibel; Rooum; John Noy; Countess Anna Fedorovna
- First words
- For some reason the B.B.C. are always asking me to tell a ghost story - at least, they don't ask me, they tell me I've got to.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A bullet struck him in the neck, and , as no one had any time to attend to him, he bled to death.
- Original language
- English; French; Russian
- Disambiguation notice
- Recent, somewhat shorter, edition of The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936) containing only:
- The Diver by A. J. Alan
- The Ghoul of Golders Green by Michael Arlen
- The Murder of ... (show all)the Mandarin by Arnold Bennett
- Powers of the Air by J. D. Beresford
- Keeping His Promise by Algernon Blackwood
- Dearth's Farm by Gerald Bullett
- The Hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton
- The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
- The Tiger by A. E. Coppard
- The Looking Glass by Walter de la Mare
- The Hostelry by Guy de Maupassant
- A Large Diamond by Lord Dunsany
- The Cupboard by Jeffery Farnol
- The Other Sense by J. S. Fletcher
- Ghost of Honour by Pamela Hansford Johnson
- Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
- The Trapdoor by C. D. Heriot
- Ben Blower's Story by C. F. Hoffman]
- The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood
- The Dwarfs by Aldous Huxley
- Guests from Gibbet Island by Washington Irving
- The Mezzotint by M. R. James
- The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome
- The Woman Who Rode Away by D. H. Lawrence
- Honolulu by W. Somerset Maugham
- Rooum by Oliver Onions
- The Green Light by Barry Pain
- The Iron Pineapple by Eden Phillpotts
- The Demon King by J. B. Priestley
- The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
- The Seventh Man by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
- Laura by Saki
- Goat-Cry, Girl-Cry by W. B. Seabrook
- The Mahatma's Story by May Sinclair
- Deep in the Forest by H. de Vere Stacpoole
- The Island of Voices by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Man of the Night by Edgar Wallace
- Major Wilbraham by Hugh Walpole
- The Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells
- The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E. F. Benson
- A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
- The Voice in the Night by W. H. Hodgson
- Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
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