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Mystery: An Anthology of the Mysterious in Fact and Fiction

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First published 1952
Publisher Hulton Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Joan Hassall
Pages 439
Price 12/6

Contents' page numbers from richarddalbyslibrary.com photos. Price on front flap. "A Norman Kark Publication" is on the bottom of the cloth cover's spine. Copyright page: "The jacket design is an adaptation of the original engraving done by Joan Hassall for the cover of The London Mystery Magazine". A photo at Dog Eared Books (www.dogearedbooks.com.au) shows the last (unnumbered) page of a preface which is signed by A.L.C.C.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Beat of a Lifetime Negley Farson Novelette
25 Screaming Skulls Christina Hole Essay
33 The Zombie of Alto Parana W. Stanley Moss Novelette
61 The Mysterious Sense of Direction Peter Scott Essay
75 The Scarlet Belt Daniel Pettiward Short Story
93 Foggy Bottom Christopher Morley Short Story
102 Along Came a Spider Algernon Blackwood Essay
108 Fame for Ferdinand J. T. Story Short Story
115 Scandal in Athens Kathleen Freeman Essay
134 Twelve Peaks to the Sky F. E. Smith Short Story
147 The Invisible Worm Geoffrey Grigson Essay
154 Last Night I Died Morris Cooper Short Story
167 The Parcel John Peters Short Story
178 Mind to Mind Kenneth Walker Essay
196 Mind to Mind: But How? Banesh Hoffmann Essay
203 How Indeed? Kenneth Walker Essay
211 Cranford Revisited Ianthe Jerrold Short Story
219 Tracking Henry's Tomb Humphry Bullock Essay
224 The Case of the Professor's Chair Mary Fitt Short Story
241 London's "Mystery" Men Hannen Swaffer Essay
249 Behind the Stumps Russell Kirk Short Story
268 Commission on Ghosts Sagittarius Poem
270 Postscript to Harry Price Robert Fordyce Aickman Essay
279 Catspaw Frank Stuart Short Story
290 Writer's Witch Joan Fleming Short Story
299 Drury Lane Ghost W. MacQueen-Pope Essay
311 The Slave Detective Wallace Nichols Short Fiction
344 Harry Donald Gilchrist Short Story
358 No Such Folk Lord Raglan Essay
368 The Minister's Pool Lord Belhaven Short Story
376 What Song the Siren Sang Sagittarius Poem
378 Noel Burgess Drake Short Story
391 Lucifer Over London Lewis Spence Short Story
401 The Roman Wood Dorothy Edwards Short Story
418 George Barnwell Lillian de la Torre Essay
436 Hedunit Sagittarius Poem