The Arbor House treasury of horror and the supernatural
By: compiled by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, and Martin H. Greenberg ; with an introduction by Stephen King.
Contributors: Pronzini, Bill.; Malzberg, Barry N.; Greenberg, Martin Harry.
Publisher: Arbor House; Arbor House Pub Co
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9780877953197
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; Horror tales, English.; Occult fiction.
Description: A spellbinding collection of 41 of the genre's finest — and most chilling — tales, here is the definitive, the reliable, the indispensable volume of horror and the beyond, com- piled by three of the field's top contributors and authorities and introduced by the current undisputed master of the supernatural, Stephen King.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Hop frog / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: Rappaccini's daugher / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: Squire Toby's will / J. Sheridan Le Fanu --; title: The squaw / Bram Stoker --; title: The jolly corner / Henry James --; title: "Man overboard!" / Winston Churchill --; title: The hand / Theodore Dreiser --; title: The valley of the spiders / H.G. Wells --; title: The middle toe of the right foot / Ambrose Bierce --; title: Pickman's model / H.P. Lovecraft --; title: Yours truly, Jack the ripper / Robert Bloch --; title: The screaming laugh / Cornell Woolrich --; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --; title: Bianca's hands / Theodore Sturgeon --; title: The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Leiber --; title: Shut a final door / Truman Capote --; title: Come and go mad / Fredric Brown --; title: The scarlet king / Evan Hunter --; title: Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner --; title: Sardonicus / Ray Russell --; title: A teacher's rewards / Robert Phillips --; title: The roaches / Thomas M. Disch --; title: The jam / Henry Slesar --; title: Black wind / Bill Pronzini --; title: The road to Mictlantecutli / Adobe James --; title: Passengers / Robert Silverberg --; title: The explosives expert / John Lutz --; title: Call first / Ramsey Campbell --; title: The fly / Arthur Porges --; title: Namesake / Elizabeth Morton --; title: Camps / Jack Dann --; title: You know Willie / Theodore R. Cogswell --; title: The mindworm / C.M. Kornbluth --; title: Warm / Robert Scheckley --; title: Transfer / Barry N. Malzberg --; title: The doll / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant --; title: Mass without voices / Arthur L. Samuels --; title: The oblong room / Edward D. Hoch --; title: The party / William F. Nolan --; title: The crate / Stephen King.