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Cover of Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Herbert A. Wise & Phyllis Fraser

First published 1944
Publisher Modern Library
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Catalog ID G72
Cover art George Salter
Pages xix+1080
Price $2.95

price from Tuck Jacket signed "Salter"; "Wrapper designed by George Salter" on front flap.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 La Grande Bretêche Honoré de Balzac Short Story
24 The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
34 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
44 A Terribly Strange Bed Wilkie Collins Short Story
57 The Boarded Window Ambrose Bierce Short Story
62 The Three Strangers Thomas Hardy Novelette
85 The Interruption W. W. Jacobs Short Story
99 Pollock and the Porroh Man H. G. Wells Short Story
116 The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells Short Story
127 Sredni Vashtar Saki Short Story
133 Moonlight Sonata Alexander Woollcott Short Story
136 Silent Snow, Secret Snow Conrad Aiken Short Story
155 Suspicion Dorothy L. Sayers Short Story
172 The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell Novelette
188 Leiningen Versus the Ants Carl Stephenson Novelette
212 The Gentleman from America Michael Arlen Short Story
231 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Short Story
242 The Killers Ernest Hemingway Short Story
253 Back for Christmas John Collier Short Story
259 Taboo Geoffrey Household Novelette
283 The Haunters and the Haunted: or, The House and the Brain Edward Bulwer-Lytton Novelette
324 Rappaccini's Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelette
356 The Trial for Murder Charles Allston Collins & Charles Dickens Short Story
368 Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
403 What Was It? Fitz-James O'Brien Short Story
417 Sir Edmund Orme Henry James Novelette
447 The Horla, or Modern Ghosts Guy de Maupassant Novelette
473 Was It a Dream? Guy de Maupassant Short Story
478 The Screaming Skull F. Marion Crawford Novelette
509 The Furnished Room O. Henry Short Story
516 Casting the Runes M. R. James Novelette
539 Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad M. R. James Novelette
560 Afterward Edith Wharton Novelette
592 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
604 The Great God Pan Arthur Machen Novella
660 How Love Came to Professor Guildea Robert Hichens Novella
708 The Return of Imray Rudyard Kipling Short Story
721 "They" Rudyard Kipling Novelette
745 Lukundoo Edward Lucas White Short Story
760 Caterpillars E. F. Benson Short Story
769 Mrs. Amworth E. F. Benson Short Story
785 Ancient Sorceries Algernon Blackwood Novelette
835 Confession Algernon Blackwood Short Story
854 The Open Window Saki Short Story
858 The Beckoning Fair One Oliver Onions Novella
928 Out of the Deep Walter de la Mare Novelette
958 Adam and Eve and Pinch Me A. E. Coppard Short Story
970 The Celestial Omnibus E. M. Forster Short Story
987 The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton Short Story
998 The Sailor-Boy's Tale Isak Dinesen Short Story
1010 The Rats in the Walls H. P. Lovecraft Novelette
1031 The Dunwich Horror H. P. Lovecraft Novelette
xi Introduction (Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural) Herbert A. Wise & Phyllis Fraser Essay
xix Introduction to the Notes (Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural) Herbert A. Wise & Phyllis Fraser Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1947 Hammond, Hammond & Co. Hardcover Anthology 832
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Cover 1947 Modern Library Hardcover Anthology G72 George Salter xix+1080
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1957 Hammond, Hammond & Co. Hardcover Anthology 832
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Cover 1971 Hammond, Hammond & Co. Hardcover Anthology Stein 832
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Cover 1972 Hammond, Hammond & Co. Hardcover Anthology Stein 832
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Cover 1977 Book Club Associates Hardcover Anthology CN 4361 832
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1982 Hutchinson Hardcover Anthology 832