Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
by Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, Montague Rhodes James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H.P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke
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:
/ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
THE TURN OF THE TIDE / C. S Forester
THE SUMMER PEOPLE / Shirley Jackson
/ 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
/ 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
/ 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
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY / 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
