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The Supernatural in Fiction

Leo P. Kelley

First published 1973
Publisher McGraw-Hill
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages [iv]+313
Price $3.96
ISBN 0070334978

  • Textbook anthology of stories involving the supernatural, each story having a short introduction as well as a set of questions for discussion.
  • Subdivided into chapters by topic; Witches, Ghosts, Devils, etc., each with an introductory essay.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Witches, Werewolves and Vampires - The Terrible Tribe uncredited Essay
3 Medea (excerpt) Euripides Short Fiction
4 Share Alike Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean Short Story
15 The Amulet Gordon R. Dickson Short Story
30 The Werewolf H. B. Marryat Short Story
44 The Mark of the Beast Rudyard Kipling Short Story
56 Homecoming Ray Bradbury Short Story
69 Gods, Devils and Damnations - From the Darkness Next Door uncredited Essay
71 The Underworld (excerpt) Virgil Short Fiction
72 The Jam Henry Slesar Short Story
76 The Kings of the Sea Sterling E. Lanier Novelette
93 Flies Isaac Asimov Short Story
100 Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
112 None Before Me Sidney Carroll Short Story
122 Burnt Toast Mack Reynolds Short Story
131 Ghost Stories - The Haunted House of Man's Mind uncredited Essay
132 from: The Nun's Priest's Tale (excerpt) Geoffrey Chaucer Short Fiction
134 The Haunted Woodshed Harold R. Daniels Short Story
144 The Furnished Room O. Henry Short Story
150 Was It a Dream? Guy de Maupassant Short Story
155 The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton Short Story
164 Hey, Look at Me! Jack Finney Short Story
176 Running Wolf Algernon Blackwood Short Story
193 Spells and Sorcery - Odd Doings and Strange Dooms uncredited Essay
194 The Tempest (excerpt) William Shakespeare Short Fiction
195 It's a Good Life Jerome Bixby Short Story
211 The Canvas Bag Alan E. Nourse Short Story
221 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
231 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
239 The Dark Door Leo P. Kelley Short Story
253 Things - The Bizarre on the Human Horizon uncredited Essay
254 from: The Book of Ezekiel Ezekiel Short Fiction
255 The Lonesome Place August Derleth Short Story
262 What Was It? Fitz-James O'Brien Short Story
273 The Rocking-Horse Winner D. H. Lawrence Short Story
287 The Bagman's Story Charles Dickens Short Story
299 Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
308 The Outsider H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
[i] Introduction (The Supernatural in Fiction) uncredited Essay