The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales

Contents. Between the opening and closing essays are 35 listings under 6 section headings, with the section headings alone transcribed here: • Some People Say (Introduction, pp. 9-12) • Funny Ones (7 stories) • Scary Ones (8 stories) • Real Ones (9 stories) • Ghost Games (3) • Witch Stories (3) • Do's and Don't's About Ghosts (5) • Author's Notes and Bibliography (pp. 115-25 and 125-27) --Contents of 2016 Dover republication, ISBN 978-0-486-80786-7, viewed as "Look Inside!" at Amazon.com 2017-06-15. Today's selection includes most of the opening and closing essays, of which the Author's Notes reveal the nature of most the 35 "stories".

1st ed.
• ISBN 0529035456 ? LCCN as "[1959]" and OCLC as "(c)1959" report ISBN 0529035456. Some WorldCat records dated 1959 in some fashion give that ISBN; some give publisher Collins–World or similar, rather than World. For ISBN 0529035456 as of 2017-06-19, Amazon.com states "Library Binding" and "Putnam Pub Group Library (June 1959)", provides cover image apparently identical to the 2016 Dover republication.
• Price from brief review by Ethna Sheehan in "Folktales Retold" NY Times 1959-05-10 pBRA16 (Title not found 2017-06-12 in UK newspapers 1959, 1960)
• Contents (see Title Reference for more info) -- 35 beside illustrations, introduction, notes, bibliography -- page numbers below, from 2016 Dover republication