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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Author: | Herbert A. Wise Phyllis Fraser |
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Modern Library, 1994 Modern Library, 1944 |
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Table of Contents:
- xi - Introduction (Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural) - essay by Phyllis Fraser and Herbert A. Wise
- xix - Introduction to the Notes (Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural) - essay by Herbert A. Wise and Phyllis Fraser
- 3 - La Grande Bretêche - (1832) - novelette by Honoré de Balzac (trans. of La Grande Bretèche)
- 24 - The Black Cat - (1843) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
- 34 - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - (1845) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
- 44 - A Terribly Strange Bed - (1852) - shortstory by Wilkie Collins
- 57 - The Boarded Window - (1889) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
- 62 - The Three Strangers - (1883) - novelette by Thomas Hardy
- 85 - The Interruption - (1925) - shortstory by W. W. Jacobs
- 99 - Pollock and the Porroh Man - (1895) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
- 116 - The Sea Raiders - (1896) - shortstory by H. G. Wells (variant of The Sea-Raiders)
- 127 - Sredni Vashtar - (1911) - shortstory by Saki
- 133 - Moonlight Sonata - (1931) - shortstory by Alexander Woollcott
- 136 - Silent Snow, Secret Snow - (1932) - shortstory by Conrad Aiken
- 155 - Suspicion - (1933) - shortstory by Dorothy L. Sayers
- 172 - The Most Dangerous Game - (1924) - shortstory by Richard Edward Connell [as by Richard Connell ]
- 188 - Leiningen Versus the Ants - (1938) - novelette by Carl Stephenson (trans. of Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen 1937)
- 212 - The Gentleman from America - (1924) - shortstory by Michael Arlen
- 231 - A Rose for Emily - (1930) - shortstory by William Faulkner
- 242 - The Killers - (1927) - shortstory by Ernest Hemingway
- 253 - Back for Christmas - (1939) - shortstory by John Collier
- 259 - Taboo - (1939) - novelette by Geoffrey Household
- 283 - The Haunters and the Haunted: or, The House and the Brain - (1859) - novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain)
- 324 - Rappaccini's Daughter - [Rappaccini - 1] - (1844) - novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 356 - The Trial for Murder - (1865) - shortstory by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens ]
- 368 - Green Tea - [Martin Hesselius] - (1869) - novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- 403 - What Was It? - (1859) - shortstory by Fitz-James O'Brien
- 417 - Sir Edmund Orme - (1891) - novelette by Henry James
- 447 - The Horla, or Modern Ghosts - [Le Horla - 2] - novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
- 473 - Was It a Dream? - (1910) - shortstory by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La Morte 1887)
- 478 - The Screaming Skull - (1908) - novelette by F. Marion Crawford
- 509 - The Furnished Room - (1904) - shortstory by O. Henry
- 516 - Casting the Runes - (1911) - novelette by M. R. James
- 539 - Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad - (1904) - novelette by M. R. James (variant of "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad")
- 560 - Afterward - (1910) - novelette by Edith Wharton
- 592 - The Monkey's Paw - (1902) - shortstory by W. W. Jacobs
- 604 - The Great God Pan - (1894) - novella by Arthur Machen
- 660 - How Love Came to Professor Guildea - (1897) - novella by Robert Hichens
- 708 - The Return of Imray - (1891) - shortstory by Rudyard Kipling
- 721 - "They" - (1904) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
- 745 - Lukundoo - (1907) - shortstory by Edward Lucas White
- 760 - Caterpillars - (1912) - shortstory by E. F. Benson
- 769 - Mrs. Amworth - (1922) - shortstory by E. F. Benson
- 785 - Ancient Sorceries - [John Silence] - (1908) - novelette by Algernon Blackwood
- 835 - Confession - (1921) - shortstory by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood ]
- 854 - The Open Window - (1911) - shortstory by Saki
- 858 - The Beckoning Fair One - (1911) - novella by Oliver Onions
- 928 - Out of the Deep - (1923) - novelette by Walter de la Mare
- 958 - Adam and Eve and Pinch Me - (1921) - shortstory by A. E. Coppard
- 970 - The Celestial Omnibus - (1908) - shortstory by E. M. Forster
- 987 - The Ghost Ship - (1912) - shortstory by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)
- 998 - The Sailor-Boy's Tale - (1942) - shortstory by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen ]
- 1010 - The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
- 1031 - The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
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