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Strange and Fantastic Stories: Fifty Tales of Terror, Horror and Fantasy

Joseph A. Margolies

First published 1946
Publisher Whittlesey House
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art George Salter
Pages x+762
Price $3.75

  • On front flap:
    • 'Price: $3.75'
    • 'Jacket Design by George Salter'
    ; signature on lower right of cover.
  • Publisher Whittlesey House is a division of McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Ancient Sin Michael Arlen Short Story
10 The Executioner Honoré de Balzac Short Story
21 Enoch Soames Max Beerbohm Novelette
50 Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent Stephen Vincent Benét Short Story
65 Caterpillars E. F. Benson Short Story
74 The Criminal J. D. Beresford Short Story
83 The Middle Toe of the Right Foot Ambrose Bierce Short Story
92 The Occupant of the Room Algernon Blackwood Short Story
101 In the Mirror Valery Brussof Short Story
112 Jean-ah Poquelin George W. Cable Short Story
133 Variation on a Theme John Collier Short Story
145 The Trial for Murder Charles A. Collins & Charles Dickens Short Story
157 Blow Up with the Brig! Wilkie Collins Short Story
170 The Brute Joseph Conrad Short Story
191 The Upper Berth F. Marion Crawford Novelette
212 True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal Daniel Defoe Short Story
221 No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman Charles Dickens Short Story
235 The Three Infernal Jokes Lord Dunsany Short Story
242 The Other Side of the Hedge E. M. Forster Short Story
248 The Elixir of Life Richard Garnett Short Story
254 President Lincoln's Dream Lord Halifax Short Story
256 August Heat W. F. Harvey Short Story
262 Wakefield Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
271 The Story of Serapion E. T. A. Hoffmann Short Story
282 The Ghost Richard Hughes Short Story
286 The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Henry James Short Story
306 The Mezzotint M. R. James Short Story
318 Mrs. Drainger's Veil Howard Mumford Jones Novelette
345 Wireless Rudyard Kipling Short Story
364 The Woman Who Rode Away D. H. Lawrence Novelette
401 Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu Novella
475 The Kennel Maurice Level Short Story
482 The Novel of the White Powder Arthur Machen Short Story
499 Lord Mountdrago W. Somerset Maugham Novelette
523 The Specter Guy de Maupassant Short Story
530 Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville Novelette
568 The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton Short Story
579 The Diamond Lens Fitz-James O'Brien Novelette
603 Ligeia Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
619 Laura Saki Short Story
624 The Cyprian Cat Dorothy L. Sayers Short Story
637 Wandering Willie's Tale Sir Walter Scott Short Story
655 The Victim May Sinclair Novelette
676 Desire James Stephens Short Story
684 Thrawn Janet Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
695 The Torture of Hope Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Short Story
700 Tarnhelm Hugh Walpole Short Story
716 The Door in the Wall H. G. Wells Short Story
733 Kerfol Edith Wharton Novelette
756 The Vanishing Lady Alexander Woollcott Short Story
vii Introduction (Strange and Fantastic Stories: Fifty Tales of Terror, Horror and Fantasy) Christopher Morley Essay