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The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories

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First published 2004
Publisher Wordsworth Editions
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages 1149
ISBN 1840220562

  • "This edition published in 2004 by Wordsworth Editions Limited" stated on the copyright page. No number line.
  • Typeset by Anthony Gray
  • "Cover Design by Robert Mathias, Publishing Workshop" (over) "Cover Illustration Omnia Vanitas" (over) "Dutch School (18th century)" (over) "Bonhams, London, UK" (over) "Bridgeman Art Library, London" stated on the back cover.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Aylmer Vance and the Vampire A. Askew & C. Askew Short Story
16 The Mysterious Mansion Honoré de Balzac Short Story
24 The Spectre of Tappington Richard Harris Barham Novelette
44 The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce Short Story
51 Eveline's Visitant Miss Braddon Short Story
59 A Ghostly Manifestation A Clergyman Short Story
69 Correspondence on 'A Ghostly Manifestation' A Clergyman Short Story
72 A Terribly Strange Bed Wilkie Collins Short Story
85 The Story of the Bagman's Uncle Charles Dickens Short Story
99 To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt Charles Dickens Short Story
108 The Signalman Charles Dickens Short Story
118 The Brazilian Cat Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
133 The Ring of Thoth Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
146 The Lord of Château Noir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
155 The New Catacomb Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
166 The Case of Lady Sannox Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
174 The Brown Hand Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
186 The Horror of the Heights Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
198 The Terror of the Blue John Gap Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
211 The Captain of the Polestar Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
229 How It Happened Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
232 Playing with Fire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
242 The Leather Funnel Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
251 Lot No. 249 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
276 The Los Amigos Fiasco Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
282 The Nightmare Room Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
288 The Phantom Coach Amelia B. Edwards Short Story
298 The Squire's Story Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Short Story
310 The Beast with Five Fingers W. F. Harvey Novelette
330 The Botathen Ghost R. S. Hawker Short Story
338 Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
348 The Gateway of the Monster W. H. Hodgson Novelette
363 The Story of Euphemia Hewit James Hogg, the Etterick Shepherd Short Story
369 The Prayer Violet Hunt Novelette
389 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
397 The Jolly Corner Henry James Novelette
423 A School Story M. R. James Short Story
429 Canon Alberic's Scrapbook M. R. James Short Story
438 Lost Hearts M. R. James Short Story
446 The Mezzotint M. R. James Short Story
455 The Ash Tree M. R. James Short Story
465 Number 13 M. R. James Short Story
477 Count Magnus M. R. James Short Story
487 "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" M. R. James Novelette
502 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas M. R. James Short Story
516 The Rose Garden M. R. James Short Story
525 The Tractate Middoth M. R. James Short Story
538 Casting the Runes M. R. James Novelette
554 The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral M. R. James Short Story
566 Martin's Close M. R. James Short Story
580 Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance M. R. James Novelette
599 The Residence at Whitminster M. R. James Novelette
616 The Diary of Mr Poynter M. R. James Short Story
624 An Episode of Cathedral History M. R. James Short Story
637 The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance M. R. James Short Story
647 Two Doctors M. R. James Short Story
653 The Haunted Dolls' House M. R. James Short Story
662 The Uncommon Prayer-Book M. R. James Short Story
674 A Neighbour's Landmark M. R. James Short Story
683 A View from a Hill M. R. James Short Story
697 A Warning to the Curious M. R. James Short Story
710 An Evening's Entertainment M. R. James Short Story
718 There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard M. R. James Short Story
721 Rats M. R. James Short Story
726 After Dark in the Playing Fields M. R. James Short Story
729 Wailing Well M. R. James Short Story
738 Stories I Have Tried to Write M. R. James Essay
741 The Mark of the Beast Rudyard Kipling Short Story
751 Thurnley Abbey Perceval Landon Short Story
763 Fisher's Ghost John Lang Short Story
769 The Rocking-Horse Winner D. H. Lawrence Short Story
781 An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
797 Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Fiction
803 Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
829 Madam Crowl's Ghost Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
840 Squire Toby's Will Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
864 Dickon the Devil Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
872 The Child That Went with the Fairies Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
880 The White Cat of Drumgunniol Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
889 Introduction (Ghost Stories of Chapelizod) Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Essay
890 The Village Bully Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
894 The Sexton's Adventure Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
899 The Spectre Lovers Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
909 Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
920 Sir Dominick's Bargain Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
931 Ultor de Lacy Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novelette
950 The Vision of Tom Chuff Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
960 Stories of Lough Guir Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
969 The Haunted and the Haunters Lord Lytton Novelette
1001 Man-Size in Marble Edith Nesbit Short Story
1010 In the Cliff Land of the Dane Howard Pease Short Story
1017 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
1021 The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
1029 The Ace of Spades (abridged) A. M. Pushkin Novelette
1034 Laura Saki Short Story
1038 Sredni Vashtar Saki Short Story
1042 The Tapestried Chamber Sir Walter Scott Short Story
1053 Wandering Willie's Tale Sir Walter Scott Short Story
1066 Markheim Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
1079 Thrawn Janet Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
1087 Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker Short Story
1097 Ghost in the Tower Edmund Lenthal Swifte Short Story
1102 The Story of Mary Ancel William Makepeace Thackeray Short Story
1117 Tarnhelm Hugh Walpole Short Story
1129 The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde Novelette