Edited with Introduction by Phyllis Fraser and Herbert A. Wise; Stories: La Grande Breteche, by Honore de Balzac; The Black Cat, & The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar, by Edgar Allan Poe; A Terribly Strange Bed, by Wilkie Collins; The Boarded Window, by Ambrose Bierce; The Three Strangers, by Thomas Hardy; The Interruption, & The Monkey's Paw, by WW Jacobs; Pollock and the Porroh Man, & The Sea Raiders, by HG Wells; Sredni Vashtar, & The Open Window, by Saki; Moonlight Sonata, by Alexander Woollcott; Silent Snow, Secret Snow; by Conrad Aiken; Suspicion, by Dorothy L Sayers; The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell; Leiningen Versus the Ants, by Carl Stephenson; The Gentleman from America, by Michael Arlen; A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner; The Killers, by Ernest Hemingway; Back for Christmas, by John Collier; Taboo, by Geoffrey Household; The Haunters and the Haunted: or, The House and the Brain, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Rappaccini's Daughter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Trial for Murder, by Charles Dickens; Green Tea, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien; Sir Edmund Orme, by Henry James; The Horla, or Modern Ghosts, & Was it a Dream? by Guy de Maupassant; The Screaming Skull, by F Marion Crawford; The Furnished Room, by O Henry; Casting the Runes, & Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, by MR James; Afterward, by Edith Wharton; The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen; How Love Came to Professor Guildea, by Robert Hichens; The Return of Imray, & "They" by Rudyard Kipling; Lukundoo, by Edward Lucas White; Caterpillars, & Mrs. Amworth, by E. F. Benson; Ancient Sorceries, & Confession, by Algernon Blackwood; The Beckoning Fair One, by Oliver Onions; Out of the Deep, by Walter de la Mare; Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, by A. E. Coppard; The Celestial Omnibus, by E. M. Forster; The Ghost Ship, by Richard Middleton; The Sailor-Boy's Tale, by Isak Dinesen; The Rats in the Walls, & The Dunwich Horror, by H. P. Lovecraft.
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- Release Date 01/01/1972
- Author Honore De Balzac
- Language English
- Company Random House, Incorporated
- Weight 2.49 pounds
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