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Shocking Tales

Robert K. Brunner

First published 1946
Publisher Current Books / A. A. Wyn
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages viii+323
Price $2.95

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Widow of Ephesus Petronius Short Fiction
6 Wakefield Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
22 Mrs. Fönss Jens Peter Jacobsen Short Story
41 The Shadow Hans Christian Andersen Short Story
54 The Desire to Be a Man Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Short Story
63 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Oscar Wilde Novelette
95 A Friend in Need Somerset Maugham Short Story
103 The Parricide's Tale Charles Robert Maturin Short Story
114 Torture by Hope Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Short Story
120 El Verdugo Honoré de Balzac Short Story
131 El Cabecilla Alphonse Daudet Short Story
137 Prologue (from Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts) Thomas De Quincey Essay
142 Happiness in Crime Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly Novelette
192 The Blind Spot Saki Short Story
197 The Gioconda Smile Aldous Huxley Novelette
227 A Rose for Emily William Faulkner Short Story
237 The Quick and the Dead Owen Cameron Short Story
243 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
255 The Reconciliation H. G. Wells Short Story
265 The Pearl of Toledo Prosper Mérimée Short Story
267 The Revolt of a Sheep Honoré de Balzac Short Story
273 The Man with the Dogs Guy de Maupassant Short Story
283 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
289 Sleepy Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Short Story
295 The Abyss Leonid Andreyev Short Story
311 The Crucifix Adelbert von Chamisso Poem
315 The Oval Portrait Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
319 The Doctor's Heroism Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Short Story
v Preface (Shocking Tales) Robert K. Brunner Essay