Shocking tales
By: edited by Robert K. Brunner.
Publisher: Current Books, Inc.; A.A. Wyn Publisher
Published: 1946
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Short stories
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Caustic tales: The widow of Ephesus / Petronius; title: Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The adopted son / Guy de Maupassant; title: Mrs. Fönss / Jens Peter Jacobsen; title: Cynical tales: The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen; title: The desire to be a man / Auguste Villiers de L'Isle Adam; title: Lord Arthur Savile's crime / Oscar Wilde; title: A friend in need / Somerset Maugham; title: Cruel tales: The parricide's tale / Charles Robert Maturin; title: Torture by hope / Auguste Villiers de L'Isle Adam; title: El verdugo / Honore de Balzac; title: El cabecilla / Alphonse Daudet; title: Crime tales: Prologue: from Thomas De Quincey's essay Murder considered as one of the fine arts; title: Happiness in crime / Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly; title: A jolly fellow / Guy de Maupassant; title: The blind spot / Saki; title: The giaconda smile / Aldous Huxley; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner; title: The quick and the dead / Owen Cameron; title: Tales of vengeance: The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe; title: A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant; title: The reconciliation / Herbert George Wells; title: Tales of jealousy: The pearl of Toledo / Prosper Merimee; title: The revolt of a sheep / Honore de Balzac; title: The man with the dogs / Guy de Maupassant; title: Tales of frenzy: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Sleepy / Anton Chekhov; title: The abyss / Leonid Andreyev; title: Tales of obsession: The crucifix / Adelbert von Chamisso; title: The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe; title: The doctor's heroism / Auguste Villiers de L'Isle Adam.