Mystifying
Subtitle: sinister stories of the unexplained
By: chosen by Helen Cresswell
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780753462454
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Mystery fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Short stories; Children's stories
Description: Provides a spooky collection of nineteen mysterious and suspenseful stories from a diverse ensemble of celebrated writers, including Agatha Christie, Diana Wynne Jones, and Joan Aiken.
Table of contents: title: The green arches / Joan Aiken; title: The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui; title: Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë; title: The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon; title: The thing in the pond / Paul Ernst; title: Smart ice cream / Paul Jennings; title: The pelican / Ann Pilling; title: The adventures of Johnnie Waverly / Agatha Christie; title: The tower / Carl Jung; title: The scythe / Ray Bradbury; title: A sea above the sky / Thomas Wright; title: A vine on the house / Ambrose Bierce; title: The master / Diana Wynne Jones; title: King Arthur (an extract) / Sir Thomas Malory; title: The whisperer / Vivien Alcock; title: Texts / Ursula Le Guin; title: The sky sea / Helen Cresswell; title: The adventure of the Sussex vampire / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The bewitched jacket / Dino Buzzati.