Great short tales of mystery and terror / selected by the editors of Reader's digest condensed books ; illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Pleasantville : Reader's Digest Association, 1982.Edition: 1st edDescription: 639 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.087208 REA
Contents:
The red-headed league / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The turn of the tide / C.S. Forester -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- The third floor flat / Agatha Christie -- The man who liked Dickens / Evelyn Waugh -- Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant -- The fourth man / John Russell -- The wendigo / Algernon Blackwood -- The touch of nutmeg makes it / John Collier -- The absence of Mr. Glass / G.K. Chesterton -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- The log of the evening star / Alfred Noyes -- Casting the runes / M.R. James -- Man from the south / Roald Dahl -- The whole town's sleeping / Ray Bradbury -- The arrow of God / Leslie Charteris -- The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany -- The Gettysburg bugle / Ellery Queen -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Don't look now / Daphne du Maurier -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- An alpine divorce / Robert Barr -- The incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr -- Thanatos Palace Hotel / Andre Maurois -- The ghost-ship / Richard Middleton -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- After-dinner story / William Irish -- Another solution / Gilbert Highet -- The waxwork / A.M. Burrage -- For your eyes only / Ian Fleming -- The foghorn / Gertrude Atherton -- Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- The interruption / W.W. Jacobs -- An invitation to the hunt / George Hitchcock -- The voice in the night / William Hope Hodgson -- Midnight blue / Ross Macdonald -- The return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Journey backward into time / Georges Simenon -- The movie people / Robert Bloch -- Broker's special / Stanley Ellin -- The sea raiders / H.G. Wells -- The case of the irate witness . Erle Stanley Gardner -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The nine billion names of God / Arthur C. Clarke.
Summary: 45 short stories by some of the most famous authors of stories of the macabre and supernatural,.
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The red-headed league / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The turn of the tide / C.S. Forester --
The summer people / Shirley Jackson --
The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe --
The third floor flat / Agatha Christie --
The man who liked Dickens / Evelyn Waugh --
Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant --
The fourth man / John Russell --
The wendigo / Algernon Blackwood --
The touch of nutmeg makes it / John Collier --
The absence of Mr. Glass / G.K. Chesterton --
Miriam / Truman Capote --
The log of the evening star / Alfred Noyes --
Casting the runes / M.R. James --
Man from the south / Roald Dahl --
The whole town's sleeping / Ray Bradbury --
The arrow of God / Leslie Charteris --
The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany --
The Gettysburg bugle / Ellery Queen --
The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce --
Don't look now / Daphne du Maurier --
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke --
An alpine divorce / Robert Barr --
The incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr --
Thanatos Palace Hotel / Andre Maurois --
The ghost-ship / Richard Middleton --
The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft --
After-dinner story / William Irish --
Another solution / Gilbert Highet --
The waxwork / A.M. Burrage --
For your eyes only / Ian Fleming --
The foghorn / Gertrude Atherton --
Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson --
The interruption / W.W. Jacobs --
An invitation to the hunt / George Hitchcock --
The voice in the night / William Hope Hodgson --
Midnight blue / Ross Macdonald --
The return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling --
Journey backward into time / Georges Simenon --
The movie people / Robert Bloch --
Broker's special / Stanley Ellin --
The sea raiders / H.G. Wells --
The case of the irate witness . Erle Stanley Gardner --
Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
The nine billion names of God / Arthur C. Clarke.

45 short stories by some of the most famous authors of stories of the macabre and supernatural,.

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