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Great Tales of Terror

uncredited

First published 1991
Publisher Chancellor Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 638
Price £2.99
ISBN 1851521062

46 stories British Library record {{BL|012474569}} notes that this is a reissue of 1936 [sic] Odhams Press anthology The Great Books of Thrillers (see), but only 41 stories are contained in both (with some differences in the sequence).

Five stories are in the 1991 anthology only (by 1991 page number): 405 • Staley Fleming's Hallucination (1906), Ambrose Bierce 443 • The Phantom Coach (1864), Amelia B. Edwards 515 • The Dilemma of Phadrig (1827), Gerald Griffin 553 • The Doctor's Ghost (1862), Norman MacLeod 634 • A Spanish Ghost Story (1937), uncredited Compare the 1935 anthology.


British Library (BL, below) notes, "First published as: The great book of thrillers. Odhams Press, 1936." But the two 46-story collections contain only 41 matching stories. See the collection records. {{a|H. Douglas Thomson}} edited and introduced the 1936 anthology.

Searching by ISBN: 1851521062

Page Title Author(s) Type
13 H2, Etc. A. J. Alan Short Story
18 The Smell in the Library Michael Arlen Novelette
37 The Man in the Bell W. E. Aytoun (in error) Short Story
43 The Mysterious Mansion Honoré de Balzac Short Story
57 The Folding Doors Marjorie Bowen Short Story
72 The Lady of Glenwith Grange Wilkie Collins Novelette
92 The New Sun Joseph S. Fletcher Short Story
110 Hot Water Val Gielgud Short Story
118 The Island L. P. Hartley Short Story
133 Edward Randolph's Portrait Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
144 The Spectre Bridegroom Washington Irving Short Story
158 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
169 The Tarn Hugh Walpole Short Story
182 The Resurrectionist Samuel Warren Short Story
194 The Blue Room Prosper Mérimée Short Story
206 The Café of Terror E. Phillips Oppenheim Short Story
219 The Avenging Chance Anthony Berkeley Short Story
235 A Lesson in Crime G. D. H. Cole & Margaret I. Cole Short Story
247 Mr. Pemberton's Commission Freeman Wills Crofts Short Story
260 Who Killed Castelvetri? Gilbert Frankau Novelette
280 The Aluminium Dagger R. Austin Freeman Novelette
304 The Gylston Slander Herbert Jenkins Short Story
323 Arsène Lupin in Prison Maurice Leblanc Novelette
341 The Fenchurch Street Mystery Baroness Emmuska Orczy Short Story
358 Peacock House Eden Phillpotts Novelette
389 The Vanishing Diamond John Rhode Novelette
405 Staley Fleming's Hallucination Ambrose Bierce Short Story
408 The Italian's Story Catherine Crowe Short Story
424 The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley Daniel Defoe Short Story
432 To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt Charles Dickens Short Story
443 The Phantom Coach Amelia B. Edwards Short Story
455 Madam Crowl's Ghost Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
471 Black Coffee Jeffery Farnol Short Story
484 The Black Ferry John Galt Short Story
495 The Dreamland Bride Théophile Gautier Novelette
515 The Dilemma of Phadrig Gerald Griffin Short Story
523 Mary Burnet James Hogg Novelette
544 The Three Sisters W. W. Jacobs Short Story
553 The Doctor's Ghost Norman MacLeod Short Story
559 Mr. Kempe Walter de la Mare Novelette
584 The Tapestried Chamber Sir Walter Scott Short Story
599 The Frontier Guards H. Russell Wakefield Short Story
605 The Red Room H. G. Wells Short Story
616 The Sphinx Without a Secret Oscar Wilde Short Story
621 The Gardener E. F. Benson Short Story
634 A Spanish Ghost Story uncredited Short Story