Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
By: selected by the editors of Reader's digest condensed books ; illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Pleasantville, N.Y.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 639
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English; Detective and mystery stories, American; Horror tales, English; Horror tales, American
Other titles: Reader's digest condensed books (Pleasantville, N.Y.)
Table of contents: title: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: THE TURN OF THE TIDE / C. S Forester; title: THE SUMMER PEOPLE / Shirley Jackson; title: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO / Edgar Allan Poe; title: THE THIRD FLOOR FLAT / Agatha Christie; title: THE MAN WHO LIKED DICKENS / Evelyn Waugh; title: WAS IT A DREAM / Guy de Maupassant; title: THE FOURTH MAN / John Russell; title: THE WENDIGO / Algernon Blackwood; title: THE TOUCH OF NUTMEG MAKES IT / John Collier; title: THE ABSENCE OF MR. GLASS / G. K. Chesterton; title: MIRIAM / Truman capote; title: THE LOG OF THE EVENING STAR / Alfred Noyes; title: CASTING THE RUNES / M. R. James; title: MAN FROM THE SOUTH / Roald Dahl; title: THE WHOLE TOWNS SLEEPING / Ray Bradbury; title: THE ARROW OF GOD / Leslie Charteris; title: THE TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH / Lord Dunsany; title: THE GETTYSBURG BUGLE / Ellery Queen; title: THE DAMNED THINC, / Ambrose Bierce; title: DON'T LOOK NOW / Daphne du Maurier; title: THE HANDS OF MR. OTITRMOLE / Thomas Burke; title: AN ALPINE DIVORCE / Robert Barr; title: THE INCAUTIOUS BURGLAR / John Dickson Carr; title: THANATOS PALACE HOTEL / André Maurois; title: THE GHOST.SHIP / Richard Middleton; title: THE RATS IN THE WALLS / H. P. Lovecraft; title: AETER.DINNER STORY / William Irish; title: ANOTHER SOLUTION j Gilbert Highet; title: THE WAXWORK / A. M. Burrage; title: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY / Ian Fleming; title: THE FOGHORN / Gertrude Atherton; title: LEININGEN VERSUS THE ANTS / c-arl. Stephenson; title: THE INTERRUPTION / W. W. Jacobs; title: AN INVITATION TO THE HUNT / George Hitchcock; title: THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT / William Hope Hodgson; title: MIDNIGHT BLUE / Ross Macdonald; title: THE REIVRN OF IMRAY / Rudyard Kipling; title: JOURNEY BACKWARD INTO TIME / Georges Simenon; title: THE MOVIE PEOPLE / Robert Bloch; title: BROKER'S SPECIAL / Stanley Ellin; title: THE SEA RAIDERS / H. G. Wells; title: THE CASE OF THE IRATE WITNTESS / Erie Stanley Gardner; title: SREDNI VASHTAR / Saki (H. H. Munro); title: THE NINE BILLION NAMES or GOD / Arthur C. Clarke; title: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS