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The Best Horror Stories

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First published 1977
Publisher Hamlyn
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 751
Price £2.95
ISBN 0600382443

The 1990 editions reprinted only partial contents.

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  • The Supernatural Index and {{Reginald3}} attribute this to Lynn Picknett.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
7 Introduction (The Best Horror Stories) Lynn Picknett Essay
13 The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
21 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
26 The Premature Burial Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
38 The Torture of Hope Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Short Story
43 An Episode of the Terror Honoré de Balzac Short Story
57 The Hand Guy de Maupassant Short Story
63 The Withered Arm Thomas Hardy Novelette
86 The Idiots Joseph Conrad Short Story
105 The Bird Thomas Burke Short Story
112 The Terror Arthur Machen Novella
185 Lot No. 249 Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
213 The Apprentice Hilaire Belloc Essay
217 The Sentence J. Kaden-Bandrowski Novelette
237 The Killers Ernest Hemingway Short Story
246 Arabesque: The Mouse A. E. Coppard Short Story
252 Treasure Trove F. Tennyson Jesse Short Story
258 Cinci Luigi Pirandello Short Story
266 Suspicion Dorothy L. Sayers Short Story
280 The Last Chukka Alec Waugh Novelette
303 Dead on Her Feet Cornell Woolrich Short Story
320 Taboo Geoffrey Household Novelette
338 A Little Place Off the Edgware Road Graham Greene Short Story
343 The Words of Guru C. M. Kornbluth Short Story
350 Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper Robert Bloch Short Story
367 The Glass Eye John Keir Cross Short Story
380 The Web D'Arcy Niland Short Story
386 The Little Black Bag C. M. Kornbluth Novelette
410 The Physiology of Fear C. S. Forester Short Story
423 The Head and the Feet C. S. Forester Short Story
433 The Veldt Ray Bradbury Short Story
445 Skeleton Ray Bradbury Short Story
458 Evening Primrose John Collier Short Story
470 Back from the Grave Robert Silverberg Short Story
479 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Short Story
487 The Island of Bright Birds John Christopher Short Story
496 The Comforts of Home Flannery O'Connor Short Story
514 The Skylight Penelope Mortimer Novelette
530 Pig Roald Dahl Short Story
547 Robert Stanley Ellin Short Story
560 The Question Stanley Ellin Short Story
568 In the Steam Room Frank Baker Short Story
577 The Pencil Edmund Crispin Short Story
581 The Dark of the Moon Olaf Ruhen Short Story
589 Falling Object William Brittain Short Story
599 The Terrapin Patricia Highsmith Short Story
611 The Taste of Your Love Eddy C. Bertin Short Story
616 Aunt Jennie's Tonic Leonard Tushnet Short Story
632 Not After Midnight Daphne du Maurier Novelette
668 The Game Thomasina Weber Short Story
680 The Fanatic Arthur Porges Short Story
687 The Whimper of Whipped Dogs Harlan Ellison Short Story
702 Judas Story Brian M. Stableford Novelette
719 You're Putting Me On—Aren't You? Joe Gores Short Story
726 Wake Up Dead Tim Stout Short Story
741 Corabella David Fletcher Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Best Horror Stories Cover 1984 Hamlyn Hardcover Anthology 751
The Best Horror Stories (abridged) Cover 1990 Mallard Press Hardcover Anthology 398
The Best Horror Stories (abridged) Cover 1990 Ivy Leaf Hardcover Anthology 398