65 Great Tales Of Horror

CONTENTS

Villiers de L’isle Adam — The Salvationists (The Torture Of hope)

Honore de Balzac — The Mysterious Mansion

E. F. Benson — Negotium Perambulans

Charles Birkin — Text For Today

Robert Bloch — Return To The Sabbath

Sydney J. Bounds — Hothouse

Ray Bradbury — The October Game

Joseph Payne Brennan — The Horror At Chilton Castle

Anthony Burgess — An American Organ

Thomas Burke — The Bird

Hortense Calisher — Heartburn

Truman Capote — Miriam

R. Chetwynd-Hayes — The Monster

Agatha Christie — The Last Seance

John Collier — De Mortuis

William Wilkie Collins — A Terribly Strange Bed

R. C. Cook — Green Fingers

Roald Dahl — The Landlady

Mary Danby — Nursery Tea

Monica Dickens — Activity Time

Arthur Conan Doyle — The Brazilian Cat

Stanley Ellin — The Speciality Of The House

A. E. Ellis — If Thy Right Hand Offends Thee

H. H. Ewers — The Spider

Elizabeth Fancett — Someone In The Room

William Faulkner — A Rose For Emily

C. S. Forester — The Man Who Didn’t Ask Why

Jane Gaskell — Jane

Terry Gisbourne — The Quiet Man

John B. L. Goodwin — The Cocoon

Patricia Highsmith — The Snail-Watcher

Fanny Hurst — Guilty

Henry James — The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes

Gerald Kersh — Comrade Death

Henry Kuttner — The Salem Horror

David Langford — Cold Spell

L. A. Lewis — The Meerschaum Pipe

H. P. Lovecraft — The Hound

Philip MacDonald — Our Feathered Friends

Roger Malisson — The Thirteenth Kestrel

Frederick Marryat — The Werewolf

Richard Matheson — No Such Thing As A Vampire

Guy de Maupassant — The Hand

Clive Pemberton — The Will Of Luke Carlowe

Hal Pink — The Screaming Plant

Edgar Allan Poe — The Black Cat

Seabury Quinn — The House Of Horror

Jane Rice — The Refugee

Robert Silverberg — Back From The Grave

Frances Stephens — Claws

Bram Stoker — Dracula [extract]

Theodore Sturgeon — It

Terry Tapp — See How They Run

Bernard Taylor — Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake

William F. Temple — The Whispering Gallery

Harry E. Turner — Now Showing At The Roxy

R. E. Vernede — The Finless Death

Evelyn Waugh — The Man Who Liked Dickens

Philip Welby — Buffy

H. G. Wells — Pollock And The Porroh Man

Edward Lucas White — Lukundoo

T. H. White — The Troll

Henry S. Whitehead — The Lips

Angus Wilson — Mummy To The Rescue

Alexander Woollcott — Moonlight Sonata

• Author
• Mary Danby, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Thomas Burke, Hortense Calisher, Truman Capote, Edward Lucas White, Bernard Taylor, John Collier, Wilkie Collins, R.C. Cook, Henry S. Whitehead, William F. Temple, Honoré de Balzac, Monica Dickens, Stanley Ellin, A.E. Ellis, Hanz Heinz Ewers, Elizabeth Fancett, William Faulkner, C.S. Forester, Jane Gaskell, Terry Gisbourne, John B.L. Goodwin, Philip Welby, Patricia Highsmith, Fannie Hurst, Angus Wilson, Gerald Kersh, Henry Kuttner, David Langford, L.A. Lewis, Harry E. Turner, Philip MacDonald, Roger Malisson, Charles Birkin, Frederick Marryat, Alexander Woollcott, Guy de Maupassant, Clive Pemberton, Hal Pink, R.E. Vernede, Seabury Quinn, Robert Silverberg, Frances Stephens, Jane Dixon Rice, T.H. White, Evelyn Waugh, Sydney J. Bounds, Terry Tapp, Joseph Payne Brennan, Anthony Burgess

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 688

• Publisher
• Octopus Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780706417296

• Genres
• horror, anthologies

• Release date
• 1982