An edition of The Great Book of Thrillers (1991)

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An edition of The Great Book of Thrillers (1991)

Great Horror Stories

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H2, Etc. / A.J. Alan --
The smell in the library / Michael Arlen --
The man in the bell / W.E. Aytoun --
The mysterious man / Honore de Balzac --
The folding doors / Marjorie Bowen --
The lady of Glenwith Grange / Wilkie Collins --
The new sun / J.S. Fletcher --
Hot water / Val Gielgud --
The island / L.P. Hartley --
Edward Randolph's portrait / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The spectre bridegroom / Washington Irving --
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe --
The tarn / Hugh Walpole --
The resurrectionist / Samuel Warren --
The blue room / Prosper Merimee --
The cafe of terror / E. Phillips Oppenheim --
The avenging chance / Anthony Berkeley --
A lesson in crime / G.D.H. and M. Cole --
Mr. Pemberton's commission / Freeman Wills Crofts --
Who killed castelvetri? / Gilbert Frankau --
The aluminium dagger / R. Austin Freeman --
The Glyston slander / Herbert Jenkins --
Arsene Lupin in prison / Maurice Leblanc --
The Fenchurch street mystery / baroness Orczy --
Peacock house / Eden Phillpotts --
The vanishing diamond / John Rhode --
Staley Fleming's hallucination / Ambrose Bierce --
The Italian's story / Catherine Crowe --
The ghost of Dorothy Dingley / Daniel Defoe --
To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens --
The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards --
Madam Crowl's ghost / Sheridan Le Fanu --
Black coffee / Jeffery Farnol --
The black ferry / John Galt --
The dreamland bride / Theophile Gautier --
The dilemma of Phadrig / Gerald Griffin --
Mary Burnet / James Hogg --
The three sisters / W.W. Jacobs --
The doctor's ghost / Norman Macleod.
Mr. Kempe / Walter De La Mare --
The tapestried chamber / sir Walter Scott --
The frontier guards / Russell Wakefield --
The red room / H.G. Wells --
The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde --
The gardener / E.F. Benson --
A Spanish ghost story / Anon --

Publish Date
Publisher
Chancellor Press
Language
English
Pages
638

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Great Horror Stories
2002, Chancellor Press
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Great Tales of Terror
1991, Chancellor Press
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Table of Contents

H2, Etc. / A.J. Alan --
The smell in the library / Michael Arlen --
The man in the bell / W.E. Aytoun --
The mysterious man / Honore de Balzac --
The folding doors / Marjorie Bowen --
The lady of Glenwith Grange / Wilkie Collins --
The new sun / J.S. Fletcher --
Hot water / Val Gielgud --
The island / L.P. Hartley --
Edward Randolph's portrait / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The spectre bridegroom / Washington Irving --
The fasts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe --
The tarn / Hugh Walpole --
The resurrectionist / Samuel Warren --
The blue room / Prosper Merimee --
The cafe of terror / E. Phillips Oppenheim --
The avenging chance / Anthony Berkeley --
A lesson in crime / G.D.H. and M. Cole --
Mr. Pemberton's commission / Freeman Wills Crofts --
Who killed castelvetri? / Gilbert Frankau --
The aluminium dagger / R. Austin Freeman --
The Glyston slander / Herbert Jenkins --
Arsene Lupin in prison / Maurice Leblanc --
The Fenchurch street mystery / baroness Orczy --
Peacock house / Eden Phillpotts --
The vanishing diamond / John Rhode --
Staley Fleming's hallucination / Ambrose Bierce --
The Italian's story / Catherine Crowe --
The ghost of Dorothy Dingley / Daniel Defoe --
To be taken with a grain of salt / Charles Dickens --
The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards --
Madam Crowl's ghost / Sheridan Le Fanu --
Black coffee / Jeffery Farnol --
The black ferry / John Galt --
The dreamland bride / Theophile Gautier --
The dilemma of Phadrig / Gerald Griffin --
Mary Burnet / James Hogg --
The three sisters / W.W. Jacobs --
The doctor's ghost / Norman Macleod.
Mr. Kempe / Walter De La Mare --
The tapestried chamber / sir Walter Scott --
The frontier guards / Russell Wakefield --
The red room / H.G. Wells --
The sphinx without a secret / Oscar Wilde --
The gardener / E.F. Benson --
A Spanish ghost story / Anon --

Edition Notes

Published in
London

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
638p.
Number of pages
638

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7987927M
Internet Archive
greathorrorstori0000unse
ISBN 10
0753705699
ISBN 13
9780753705698
OCLC/WorldCat
440682369
Library Thing
802628
Goodreads
59425224

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