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Hanging by a Thread

Joan Kahn

First published 1969
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xix+604
Price $7.95

Camus' "The Guest" is from the collection Exile and the Kingdom. {{Tr|Justin O'Brien}}. "Beheaded in Error" is translated from the Ching-pen t'ung-hsu hsaio-shuo by Gene Z. Hanrahan. Borges' "The End" was translated by {{A|Anthony Kerrigan}}. Month ("1069") on front flap of Archive.org copy. On the upper left corner of the front flap is "A Raven Anthology of Suspense" below a drawing of a skull with a raven standing over it; searching for that phrase on Archive.org finds nothing, not even for this book (likely the text isn't clear enough to be found). Possibly this was the only book in the series?

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Scorched Face Dashiell Hammett Novelette
37 The Murder of Arnold Rothstein Russel Crouse Essay
51 The Splintered Monday Charlotte Armstrong Short Story
69 The Mysterious Occurrence at Lambeth G. P. R. James Novelette
93 The Guest Albert Camus Short Story
107 The Sandyford Mystery William Roughead Essay
142 The Grandstand Complex Horace McCoy Short Story
153 The Other Place Robert Borger Short Story
158 The Blue Hotel Stephen Crane Novella
187 "Other Than a Good One" Joseph Henry Jackson Essay
217 The Hashish Man Lord Dunsany Short Story
222 The True Story Dylan Thomas Short Story
226 The Manhattan Well Murder E. S. Gould Essay
238 The Way Up to Heaven Roald Dahl Short Story
251 The Haunted and the Haunters Edward Bulwer-Lytton Novelette
287 Escape from the Bastille Jean Henry Latude Essay
295 Miss Holland's Elopement Edmund Pearson Essay
306 The Peasant Girl Algis Budrys Short Story
327 A Strange Murderer Maxim Gorky Short Story
335 Lost Hearts M. R. James Short Story
345 A Marriage Tragedy Wilkie Collins Novella
402 The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells Short Story
413 The Waste Land Alan Paton Short Story
417 The Death of Agrippina, the Mother of Nero Tacitus Essay
423 Beheaded in Error unknown Short Story
437 A Manner of Legacy Donn Byrne Short Story
450 A Sort of Genius James Thurber Essay
464 Funny the Way Things Work Out John D. MacDonald Short Story
476 Captain John Porteous uncredited Essay
484 The End Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
488 Operation Enticement Henry Cecil Novelette
518 To the South Sea Islands Thor Heyerdahl Essay
532 Cambric Tea Marjorie Bowen Short Story
552 A Ghost of a Head Anonymous Short Story
563 A Winter's Tale Helen Eustis Novelette
588 The Murder at the Towers E. V. Knox Short Story
596 Biographical Notes (Hanging by a Thread) Mary McGinn Essay
ix Foreword (Hanging by a Thread) Ogden Nash Essay
xv Introduction (Hanging by a Thread) Eudora Welty Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Hanging by a Thread 1970 W. H. Allen Hardcover Anthology xix+604