Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
- Thomas Burke,
- Richard Middleton,
- John Collier,
- George Hitchcock,
- William Hope Hodgson,
- John Russell,
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton,
- Saki,
- Montague Rhodes James,
- Shirley Jackson,
- Gertrude Atherton,
- Daphne du Maurier,
- Guy de Maupassant,
- H.P. Lovecraft,
- C. S. Forester,
- Leslie Charteris,
- Lord Dunsany,
- W. W. Jacobs,
- Evelyn Waugh,
- Gilbert Highet,
- Stanley Ellin,
- Robert Barr,
- Alfred Noyes,
- Ellery Queen,
- Ian Fleming,
- Cornell Woolrich,
- John Dickson Carr,
- Algernon Blackwood,
- Roald Dahl,
- Ambrose Bierce,
- Arthur Conan Doyle,
- Kenneth Millar,
- Robert Bloch,
- Erle Stanley Gardner,
- Arthur C. Clarke,
- Truman Capote,
- H. G. Wells,
- André Maurois,
- Georges Simenon,
- Agatha Christie,
- Edgar Allan Poe,
- Rudyard Kipling,
- Ray Bradbury,
- Carl Stephenson,
- Alfred McLelland Burrage,
- Editors of Readers Digest
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Each story in Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror is an example of the work of an outstanding author--from Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to such modern masters as Agatha Christie, Ross Macdonald, Georges Simenon and a score of other famous names. Appearing in these pages are the world's greatest fictional detectives--Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, James Bond, Lew Archer, Ellery Queen, Inspector Maigret and Perry Mason, all at work on some of their more baffling and fascinating cases.
Contents: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE TURN OF THE TIDE / C. S Forester THE SUMMER PEOPLE / Shirley Jackson THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO / Edgar Allan Poe THE THIRD FLOOR FLAT / Agatha Christie THE MAN WHO LIKED DICKENS / Evelyn Waugh WAS IT A DREAM / Guy de Maupassant THE FOURTH MAN / John Russell THE WENDIGO / Algernon Blackwood THE TOUCH OF NUTMEG MAKES IT / John Collier THE ABSENCE OF MR. GLASS / G. K. Chesterton MIRIAM / Truman capote THE LOG OF THE EVENING STAR / Alfred Noyes CASTING THE RUNES / M. R. James MAN FROM THE SOUTH / Roald Dahl THE WHOLE TOWNS SLEEPING / Ray Bradbury THE ARROW OF GOD / Leslie Charteris THE TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH / Lord Dunsany THE GETTYSBURG BUGLE / Ellery Queen The Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce DON'T LOOK NOW / Daphne du Maurier THE HANDS OF MR. OTITRMOLE / Thomas Burke AN ALPINE DIVORCE / Robert Barr THE INCAUTIOUS BURGLAR / John Dickson Carr THANATOS PALACE HOTEL / André Maurois THE GHOST.SHIP / Richard Middleton THE RATS IN THE WALLS / H. P. Lovecraft AETER.DINNER STORY / William Irish ANOTHER SOLUTION j Gilbert Highet THE WAXWORK / A. M. Burrage <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL85748W" target="_blank">FOR YOUR EYES ONLY</a> / Ian Fleming THE FOGHORN / Gertrude Atherton LEININGEN VERSUS THE ANTS / c-arl. Stephenson THE INTERRUPTION / W. W. Jacobs AN INVITATION TO THE HUNT / George Hitchcock THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT / William Hope Hodgson MIDNIGHT BLUE / Ross Macdonald THE REIVRN OF IMRAY / Rudyard Kipling JOURNEY BACKWARD INTO TIME / Georges Simenon THE MOVIE PEOPLE / Robert Bloch BROKER'S SPECIAL / Stanley Ellin THE SEA RAIDERS / H. G. Wells THE CASE OF THE IRATE WITNTESS / Erie Stanley Gardner SREDNI VASHTAR / Saki (H. H. Munro) THE NINE BILLION NAMES or GOD / Arthur C. Clarke
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