Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror

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Atherton, Gertrude (Contributor)
Barr, Robert (Contributor)
Bierce, Ambrose (Contributor)
Blackwood, Algeron (Contributor)
Bloch, Robert (Contributor)
Bradbury, Ray (Contributor)
Burke, Thomas (Contributor)
Burrage, A. M. (Contributor)
Capote, Truman (Contributor)
Carr, John Dickson (Contributor)
Charteris, Leslie (Contributor)
Chesterton, G. K. (Contributor)
Christie, Agatha (Contributor)
Clarke, Arthur C. (Contributor)
Collier, John (Contributor)
Dahl, Roald (Contributor)
de Maupassant, Guy (Contributor)
Doyle, Arthur Conan (Contributor)
du Maurier, Daphne (Contributor)
Dunsany, Lord (Contributor)
Ellin, Stanley (Contributor)
Fleming, Ian (Contributor)
Forester, C. S. (Contributor)
Gardner, Erle Stanley (Contributor)
Highet, Gilbert (Contributor)
Hitchcock, George (Contributor)
Hodgson, William Hope (Contributor)
Irish, William (Contributor)
Jackson, Shirley (Contributor)
Jacobs, W. W. (Contributor)
James, M. R. (Contributor)
Kipling, Rudyard (Contributor)
Lovecraft, H. P. (Contributor)
Macdonald, Ross (Contributor)
Maurois, André (Contributor)
Middleton, Richard (Contributor)
Noyes, Alfred (Contributor)
Poe, Edgar Allan (Contributor)
Queen, Ellery (Contributor)
Russell, John (Contributor)
Saki (Contributor)
Simenon, Georges (Contributor)
Stephenson, Carl (Contributor)
Waugh, Evelyn (Contributor)
Wells, H. G. (Contributor)

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Dillon, Diane (Illustrator)
Dillon, Leo (Illustrator)

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Contains

The Red-Headed League [short story] by Arthur Conan Doyle
BBC Sherlock Holmes Short Stories: The Red-Headed League: Part 1 by Arthur Conan Doyle (indirect)
The Turn of the Tide [short story] by C. S. Forester
The Summer People [short story] by Shirley Jackson
The Cask of Amontillado [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe
The Third Floor Flat {short story} by Agatha Christie
The Man Who Liked Dickens [Short story] by Evelyn Waugh
Was It a Dream? [short story] by Guy de Maupassant
The Wendigo [novella] by Algernon Blackwood
The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It by John Collier
The Absence of Mr. Glass [short story] by G. K. Chesterton
Miriam by Truman Capote
The Log Of The "Evening Star" by Alfred Noyes
Casting the Runes [short fiction] by M. R. James
Man from the South [short story] by Roald Dahl
The Whole Town's Sleeping by Ray Bradbury
The Arrow of God [Short story] by Leslie Charteris
Two Bottles of Relish by Lord Dunsany
The Adventure of the Gettysburg Bugle [short story] by Ellery Queen
The Damned Thing [short story] by Ambrose Bierce
The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [short story] by Thomas Burke
An Apline Divorce (in A Bottomless Grave, LAMB) by Robert Barr
The Incautious Burglar [Short Story] by John Dickson Carr
Thanatos Palace Hotel [short story] by André Maurois
The Ghost Ship [short story] by Richard Middleton
The Rats in the Walls [short fiction] by H. P. Lovecraft
After-Dinner Story by William Irish
Marihuana by William Irish (indirect)
It Had To Be Murder [short story] by Cornell Woolrich (indirect)
The Waxwork [short story] by A. M. Burrage
For Your Eyes Only [short story] by Ian Fleming
The Foghorn [short story] by Gertrude Atherton
Leiningen Versus the Ants [short story] by Carl Stephenson
An Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock
The Voice in the Night [short story] by William Hope Hodgson
Midnight Blue by Ross Macdonald
The Recrudescence of Imray [short story] by Rudyard Kipling
Candle Wax [short story] by Georges Simenon
The Movie People [short story] by Robert Bloch
The Sea Raiders [short story] by H. G. Wells
Sredni Vashtar [short story] by Saki
The Nine Billion Names of God {story} by Arthur C. Clarke
Don't Look Now [novella] by Daphne Du Maurier

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Canonical title
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
Original publication date
1982-11-01 (compilation) (compilation)
Original language
English

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Fiction and Literature, Horror, Mystery
DDC/MDS
823.0872 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
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PR1309 .D4 .G7 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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