Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror

Contents: The red-headed league / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — The turn of the tide / C. S. Forester — The summer people / Shirley Jackson — The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe — The third floor flat / Agatha Christie — The man who liked Dickens / Evelyn Waugh — Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant — The fourth man / John Russell — The wendigo / Algernon Blackwood — The touch of nutmeg makes it / John Collier — The absence of Mr. Glass / G. K. Chesterton.

— Miriam / Truman Capote — The log of the evening star / Alfred Noyes — Casting the runes / M. R. James — Man from the south / Roald Dahl — The whole town's sleeping / Ray Bradbury — The arrow of God / Leslie Charteris — The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany — The Gettysburg bugle / Ellery Queen — The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce — Don't look now / Daphne du Maurier — The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke — An alpine divorce / Robert Barr — The.

incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr — Thanatos Palace Hotel / Andre Maurois — The ghost-ship / Richard Middleton — The rats in the walls / H. P. Lovecraft — After-dinner story / William Irish — Another solution / Gilbert Highet — The waxwork / A. M. Burrage — For your eyes only / Ian Fleming — The foghorn / Gertrude Atherton — Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson — The interruption /W. W. Jacobs — An invitation to the hunt / George Hitchcock — The.

voice in the night / William Hope Hodgson — Midnight blue / Ross Macdonald — The return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling — Journey backward into time / Georges Simenon — The movie people /Robert Bloch — Broker's special / Stanley Ellin — The sea raiders / H. G. Wells — The case of the irate witness . Erlw Stanley Gardner — Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H. H. Munro) — The nine billion names of God / Arthur C. Clarke.and mystery stories, English.