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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror

Dorothy L. Sayers

First published 1928
Publisher Gollancz
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 1229+[1]
Price 8/6


• First impression • The listing for this anthology is intentionally incomplete. Works which are not speculative fiction, or are probably not, have been omitted. • Later [1939, 1947] split into two parts, the first of which was all non-SF; the contents below are basically Part II • Price from Tuck, who has the year as 1929

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Page Title Author(s) Type
621 The Open Door Mrs. Oliphant Novelette
660 The Story of the Bagman's Uncle Charles Dickens Short Story
677 The Trial for Murder Charles Allston Collins & Charles Dickens Short Story
687 Martin's Close M. R. James Short Story
705 Phantas Oliver Onions Short Story
719 How Love Came to Professor Guildea Robert Hichens Novella
761 The Open Window Saki Short Story
764 The Novel of the Black Seal Arthur Machen Novelette
800 Tchériapin Sax Rohmer Short Story
816 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
826 The Hair A. J. Alan Short Story
834 Mrs. Amworth E. F. Benson Short Story
847 Moxon's Master Ambrose Bierce Short Story
856 The Dancing Partner Jerome K. Jerome Short Story
863 Thrawn Janet Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
872 Father Meuron's Tale R. H. Benson Short Story
881 The Avenging of Ann Leete Marjorie Bowen Short Story
893 The Man with a Malady J. F. Sullivan Short Story
904 August Heat W. F. Harvey Short Story
909 The Anticipator Morley Roberts Short Story
914 The Brute Joseph Conrad Short Story
934 Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched May Sinclair Novelette
953 Green Tea J. Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
984 The Misanthrope J. D. Beresford Short Story
993 The Bad Lands John Metcalfe Short Story
1003 Nobody's House A. M. Burrage Short Story
1014 The Seventh Man Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Short Story
1026 Proof Naomi Royde-Smith Short Story
1035 Seaton's Aunt Walter de la Mare Novelette
1063 The Gentleman from America Michael Arlen Short Story
1080 The Narrow Way R. Ellis Roberts Short Story
1094 Sawney Bean and His Family uncredited Short Fiction
1099 The Squaw Bram Stoker Short Story
1110 The Corsican Sisters Violet Hunt Novella
1187 The End of a Show Barry Pain Short Story
1190 The Cone H. G. Wells Short Story
1201 The Separate Room Ethel Colburn Mayne Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1929 Gollancz Hardcover Anthology 1229
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1930 Gollancz Hardcover Anthology 1229
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1930 Gollancz Hardcover Anthology 1229
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1931 Gollancz Hardcover Anthology 1229
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1932 Gollancz Hardcover Anthology 1229
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1933 Gollancz Hardcover Anthology 1229
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1933 Gollancz Hardcover Anthology 1229