Cover of Best Horror Stories

Best Horror Stories

John Keir Cross

First published	1957
Series	Best Horror Stories #1
Publisher	Faber and Faber
Format	Hardcover
Type	Anthology
Pages	300
Price	15/-

Contento and Tuck give 1956 as the year of publication, but all online catalogs indicate that the copyright date and the publication date were 1957.
Reginald1 and Bleiler, below, have 1957

Year	Reviewer	Publication
1958	Kenneth F. Slater	Nebula Science Fiction, Number 27
1983	Everett F. Bleiler	The Guide to Supernatural Fiction

Page	Title	Author(s)	Type
9	Introduction (Best Horror Stories)	John Keir Cross	Essay
17	Skeleton	Ray Bradbury	Short Story
36	A Watcher by the Dead	Ambrose Bierce	Short Story
49	Raspberry Jam	Angus Wilson	Short Story
69	Berenice	Edgar Allan Poe	Short Story
78	August Heat	William F. Harvey	Short Story
85	Lot No. 249	Arthur Conan Doyle	Novelette
125	The Lovers	John Keir Cross	Short Story
135	The Mark of the Beast	Rudyard Kipling	Short Story
151	The End of the Party	Graham Greene	Short Story
162	Heartburn	Hortense Calisher	Short Story
175	Bartleby	Herman Melville	Novelette
219	Our Feathered Friends	Philip MacDonald	Short Story
231	Thrawn Janet	Robert Louis Stevenson	Short Story
243	Mars Is Heaven!	Ray Bradbury	Short Story
263	"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"	M. R. James	Novelette
287	A Rose for Emily	William Faulkner	Short Story

Title		Year	Publisher	Format	Type	Catalog ID	Cover Artist	Pages
Best Horror Stories		1962	Faber and Faber	Trade Paperback	Anthology			300