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The Great Book of Thrillers

H. Douglas Thomson

First published 1935
Publisher Odhams Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 768

46 stories, with introduction by Thomson British Library record {{BL|012474569}} notes that 1991 Chancellor Press anthology Great Tales of Terror (see) is a reissue of the Odhams Press 1936 [sic], but only 41 stories are contained in both (with some differences in the sequence).

Five stories are in the 1935 anthology only (by 1935 page number): 166 • The Story of the Greek Slave (1934), Frederick Marryat 261 • The Witness for the Prosecution (1924), Agatha Christie [non-genre] 453 • Bitter Almonds (1935?), Dorothy L. Sayers 465 • The Shadow Man (1935?), Edgar Wallace 532 • The Willows (1907), Algernon Blackwood Compare the 1991 anthology.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
7 Introduction (The Great Book of Thrillers) H. Douglas Thomson Essay
21 H2, Etc. A. J. Alan Short Story
26 The Smell in the Library Michael Arlen Novelette
45 The Man in the Bell W. E. Aytoun (in error) Short Story
51 The Mysterious Mansion Honoré de Balzac Short Story
65 The Folding Doors Marjorie Bowen Short Story
80 The Lady of Glenwith Grange Wilkie Collins Novelette
100 The New Sun J. S. Fletcher Short Story
118 Hot Water Val Gielgud Short Story
126 The Island L. P. Hartley Short Story
141 Edward Randolph's Portrait Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
152 The Spectre Bridegroom Washington Irving Short Story
166 The Story of the Greek Slave Captain Frederick Marryat Short Story
181 The Blue Room Prosper Mérimée Short Story
193 The Café of Terror E. Phillips Oppenheim Short Story
206 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
217 The Tarn Hugh Walpole Short Story
230 The Resurrectionist Samuel Warren Short Story
245 The Avenging Chance Anthony Berkeley Short Story
261 The Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie Novelette
283 A Lesson in Crime G. D. H. Cole & Margaret I. Cole Short Story
295 Mr. Pemberton's Commission Freeman Wills Crofts Short Story
308 Who Killed Castelvetri? Gilbert Frankau Novelette
328 The Aluminium Dagger R. Austin Freeman Novelette
352 The Gylston Slander Herbert Jenkins Short Story
371 Arsène Lupin in Prison Maurice Leblanc Novelette
389 The Fenchurch Street Mystery Baroness Emmuska Orczy Short Story
406 Peacock House Eden Phillpotts Novelette
437 The Vanishing Diamond John Rhode Novelette
453 Bitter Almonds Dorothy L. Sayers Short Story
465 The Shadow Man Edgar Wallace Novella
519 The Gardener E. F. Benson Short Story
532 The Willows Algernon Blackwood Novella
578 The Italian's Story Catherine Crowe Short Story
594 The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley Daniel Defoe Short Story
602 To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt Charles Dickens Short Story
613 Madam Crowl's Ghost Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
629 Black Coffee Jeffery Farnol Short Story
642 The Black Ferry John Galt Short Story
653 The Dreamland Bride Théophile Gautier Novelette
673 Mary Burnet James Hogg Novelette
694 The Three Sisters W. W. Jacobs Short Story
703 Mr. Kempe Walter de la Mare Novelette
728 The Tapestried Chamber Sir Walter Scott Short Story
744 The Frontier Guards H. Russell Wakefield Short Story
750 The Red Room H. G. Wells Short Story
761 The Sphinx Without a Secret Oscar Wilde Short Story