Tales of Horror and Mystery
Publisher: Dean & Son
Published: 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780603552229
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Horror & ghost stories, chillers; Short stories
Description: This anthology contains more than thirty spine-chilling stories by contemporary and classic writers, drawing us into a world of ghosts, demons and horrific happenings.

In Walter de la Mare's Bad Company who is the evil-looking stranger on the Underground who leads us to a frightening discovery? And in Roald Dahl's The Landlady what sinister secret is the mysterious proprietress of the guesthouse witholding from her unsuspecting guest?

These startling and compelling stories by some of the world's greatest writers will enthrall readers to the very last page.
--back cover
Table of contents: label: THE LANDLADY
title: Roald Dahl
pagenum: 8; label: THE RIDDLE
title: Walter de la Mare
pagenum: 18; label: THE MONKEY'S PAW
title: W.W. Jacobs
pagenum: 23; label: THROUGH THE DOOR
title: Ruth Ainsworth
pagenum: 34; label: MAN-SIZE IN MARBLE
title: E. Nesbit
pagenum: 47; label: THE TELL-TALE HEART
title: Edgar Allan Poe
pagenum: 60; label: A KIND OF SWAN SONG
title: Helen Cresswell
pagenum: 66; label: THE CLOCK TOWER GHOST
title: Gene Kemp
pagenum: 76; label: THE GORGE OF THE CHURELS
title: H. Russell Wakefield
pagenum: 85; label: THE HAUNTED TRAILER
title: Robert Arthur
pagenum: 95; label: THE STRANGER
title: Ambrose Bierce
pagenum: 113; label: BAD COMPANY
title: Walter de la Mare
pagenum: 119; label: THE YELLOW CAT
title: Michael Joseph
pagenum: 127; label: THE WELL
title: W.W. Jacobs
pagenum: 137; label: LAURA
title: Saki
pagenum: 149; label: THE SWAN CHILD
title: Joan Aiken
pagenum: 155; label: THE BROWN HAND
title: Arthur Conan Doyle
pagenum: 167; label: THE RED ROOM
title: H.G. Wells
pagenum: 182; label: THE BLADES
title: Joan Aiken
pagenum: 192; label: LOST HEARTS
title: M.R. James
pagenum: 206; label: THE SIGNALMAN
title: Charles Dickens
pagenum: 217; label: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
title: Oscar Wilde
pagenum: 230; label: THE SILVER MIRROR
title: Arthur Conan Doyle
pagenum: 247; label: THE STOLEN CIGAR-CASE
title: Bret Harte
pagenum: 256; label: THE MYSTERIOUS MANSION
title: Honoré de Balzac
pagenum: 266; label: SWEETS FROM A STRANGER
title: Nicholas Fisk
pagenum: 277; label: THE HITCH-HIKER
title: Roald Dahl
pagenum: 287; label: THE DREAM WOMAN
title: Wilkie Collins
pagenum: 299; label: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
title: Edgar Allan Poe
pagenum: 323; label: THE SAILOR-BOY'S TALE
title: Karen Blixen
pagenum: 329; label: THE HORLA
title: Guy de Maupassant
pagenum: 341; label: THE MUMMY'S FOOT
title: Théophile Gautier
pagenum: 365