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65 Great Tales of Horror

Mary Danby

First published 1981
Publisher Octopus Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Adam Sands
Pages 688
ISBN 0706417291

  • Data from second impression
  • Vernède is given as Vernede
  • "The Spider" translated by Walter F. Kohn
  • Other translators are not credited
  • Text comparison shows "The Mysterious Mansion" is an edited (shortened, a few minor changes) version of Andrew Lang and Paul Sylvester's translation
  • Cover artist from Etsy listing.

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 The Salvationists Villiers de l'Isle Adam Short Story
13 The Mysterious Mansion Honoré de Balzac Short Story
22 Negotium Perambulans... E. F. Benson Short Story
34 Text for Today Charles Birkin Short Story
43 Return to the Sabbath Robert Bloch Short Story
55 Hothouse Sydney J. Bounds Short Story
59 The October Game Ray Bradbury Short Story
66 The Horror at Chilton Castle Joseph Payne Brennan Short Story
78 An American Organ Anthony Burgess Short Story
83 The Bird Thomas Burke Short Story
90 Heartburn Hortense Calisher Short Story
99 Miriam Truman Capote Short Story
109 The Monster R. Chetwynd-Hayes Short Story
119 The Last Séance Agatha Christie Short Story
131 De Mortuis John Collier Short Story
137 A Terribly Strange Bed William Wilkie Collins Short Story
150 Green Fingers R. C. Cook Short Story
162 The Landlady Roald Dahl Short Story
170 Nursery Tea Mary Danby Short Story
179 Activity Time Monica Dickens Short Story
188 The Brazilian Cat Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
204 The Specialty of the House Stanley Ellin Novelette
220 If Thy Right Hand Offend Thee... A. E. Ellis Short Story
230 The Spider Hanns Heinz Ewers Novelette
249 Someone in the Room Elizabeth Fancett Short Story
253 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Short Story
261 The Man Who Didn't Ask Why C. S. Forester Short Story
264 Jane Jane Gaskell Short Story
272 The Quiet Man Terry Gisbourne Short Story
282 The Cocoon John B. L. Goodwin Short Story
296 The Snail-Watcher Patricia Highsmith Short Story
302 Guilty Fannie Hurst Novelette
323 The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Henry James Short Story
339 Comrade Death Gerald Kersh Novelette
362 The Salem Horror Henry Kuttner Short Story
377 Cold Spell David Langford Short Story
385 The Meerschaum Pipe L. A. Lewis Short Story
395 The Hound H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
402 Our Feathered Friends Philip MacDonald Short Story
410 The Thirteenth Kestrel Roger Malisson Short Story
421 The Werewolf Frederick Marryat Short Story
437 No Such Thing As a Vampire Richard Matheson Short Story
444 The Hand Guy de Maupassant Short Story
450 The Will of Luke Carlowe Clive Pemberton Short Story
456 The Screaming Plant Hal Pink Short Story
461 The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
469 The House of Horror Seabury Quinn Novelette
486 The Refugee Jane Rice Short Story
498 Back from the Grave Robert Silverberg Short Story
508 Claws Frances Stephens Short Story
516 Dracula: An Excerpt Bram Stoker Short Fiction
538 It Theodore Sturgeon Novelette
558 See How They Run Terry Tapp Short Story
567 Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake Bernard Taylor Short Story
573 The Whispering Gallery William F. Temple Short Story
589 Now Showing at the Roxy Harry E. Turner Short Story
600 The Finless Death R. E. Vernède Short Story
609 The Man Who Liked Dickens Evelyn Waugh Short Story
622 Buffy Philip Welby Short Story
633 Pollock and the Porroh Man H. G. Wells Short Story
646 Lukundoo Edward Lucas White Short Story
658 The Troll T. H. White Short Story
667 The Lips Henry S. Whitehead Short Story
678 Mummy to the Rescue Angus Wilson Short Story
683 Moonlight Sonata Alexander Woollcott Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
65 Great Tales of Horror Cover 1982 Octopus Books Hardcover Anthology Adam Sands 688