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Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror

uncredited

First published 1982
Publisher Reader's Digest Association
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 639
ISBN 0895770911


• OCLC has the complete contents listing, not all are spec-fic
Thanatos Palace Hotel is translated by Adrienne Foulke, in credit below author's name below the title on page 346.
• page number taken from internet archive copy.
• The following titles were left out of the Content. Third Floor Flat, Agatha Christie (54), The Arrow of God, Leslie Charteris (222), The Gettysburg Bugle, Ellery Queen (254), The Incautious Burglar, John Dickson Carr (331), After-Dinner Story, William Irish (388), For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming (426), Midnight Blue, Ross Macdonald (518), Journey Backward in Time, Georges Simenon (559), and The Case of the Irate Witness, Erle Stanley Gardner (602)
• The following selections appear in condensed form: The Red-Headed League, The Turn of the Tide, The Summer People, The Cask of Amontillado, The Man Who Liked Dickens, The Fourth Man, The Wendigo, The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It, The Absence of Mr. Glass, The Log of the "Evening Star", Casting the Runes, The Whole Town's Sleeping, The Arrow of God, the Gettysburg Bugle, The Damned Thing, Don't Look Now, The Hands of Mr. Ottermole, An Alpine Divorce, The Incautious Burglar, The Ghost-Ship, The Rats in the Walls, After-Dinner Story, For Your Eyes Only, Leiningen Versus the Ants, The Case of the Irate Witness and The Nine Billion Names of God. [from copyright page].

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Page Title Author(s) Type
9 The Red-Headed League Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
27 The Turn of the Tide C. S. Forester Short Story
36 The Summer People Shirley Jackson Short Story
48 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
72 The Man Who Liked Dickens Evelyn Waugh Short Story
86 Was It a Dream? Guy de Maupassant Short Story
91 The Fourth Man John Russell Short Story
107 The Wendigo Algernon Blackwood Novella
136 The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It John Collier Short Story
144 The Absence of Mr. Glass G. K. Chesterton Short Story
156 Miriam Truman Capote Short Story
168 The Log of the Evening Star Alfred Noyes Short Story
180 Casting the Runes M. R. James Novelette
196 Man from the South Roald Dahl Short Story
207 The Whole Town's Sleeping Ray Bradbury Short Story
241 The Two Bottles of Relish Lord Dunsany Short Story
271 The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce Short Story
280 Don't Look Now Daphne du Maurier Novelette
313 The Hands of Mr. Ottermole Thomas Burke Novelette
326 An Alpine Divorce Robert Barr Short Story
346 Thanatos Palace Hotel André Maurois Short Story
360 The Ghost-Ship Richard Middleton Short Story
370 The Rats in the Walls H. P. Lovecraft Novelette
409 Another Solution Gilbert Highet Short Story
414 The Waxwork A. M. Burrage Short Story
454 The Foghorn Gertrude Atherton Short Story
463 Leiningen Versus the Ants Carl Stephenson Novelette
483 The Interruption W. W. Jacobs Short Story
495 An Invitation to the Hunt George Hitchcock Short Story
505 The Voice in the Night William Hope Hodgson Short Story
548 The Return of Imray Rudyard Kipling Short Story
570 The Movie People Robert Bloch Short Story
581 Broker's Special Stanley Ellin Short Story
592 The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells Short Story
618 Sredni Vashtar Saki Short Story
623 The Nine Billion Names of God Arthur C. Clarke Short Story