Anthologies
Contents: 479 My Adventure in Norfolk (1924) short story by A. J. Alan 485 Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (1922) short story by Stacy Aumonier 500 The Leech of Folkestone [The Ingoldsby Legends] (1931) novelette by Richard Harris Barham [as by R. H. Barham] 525 A. V. Laider (1916) short story by Max Beerbohm 543 The Room in the Tower (1912) short story by E. F. Benson 555 Cut-Throat Farm (1909) short story by J. D. Beresford 559 The Damned Thing (1893) short story by Ambrose Bierce 567 Secret Worship [John Silence] (1908) novelette by Algernon Blackwood 598 No. 17 (1910) short story by E. Nesbit [as by Mrs. E. Bland] 606 The Queer Door (1930) short story by Douglas G. Browne 621 The Waxwork (1931) short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X] 633 Mad Monkton (1859) novella by Wilkie Collins [as by William Wilkie Collins] 691 The Haunted Ships (1821) short story by Allan Cunningham [as by Alan Cunningham] 705 The King Waits (1918) short story by Clemence Dane 713 The Tree (1922) short story by Walter de la Mare 730 The Second Awakening of a Magician (1930) short story by S. L. Dennis 739 No. I Branch Line, the Signal-Man (1931) short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866) 752 Riesenberg (1911) short fiction by Ford Madox Ford 777 The Beast with Five Fingers (1919) novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey] 802 The Old Man (1931) short story by Holloway Horn 808 The Prayer (1895) novelette by Violet Hunt 833 The Well (1902) short story by W. W. Jacobs 844 The Resurgent Mysteries (1931) short fiction by Edgar Jepson 861 Mr. Justice Harbottle [Martin Hesselius] (1907) novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu] 892 The Haunted and the Haunters (1931) novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton] 927 The Great Return (1915) novelette by Arthur Machen 958 The Story of the Greek Slave (1834) short story by Frederick Marryat 971 Anty Bligh (1905) short story by John Masefield 975 The Double Admiral (1925) short story by John Metcalfe 986 The Library Window (1902) novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant] 1024 Rose Rose (1910) short story by Barry Pain 1030 The Iron Pineapple (1926) short story by Eden Phillpotts 1046 Berenice (1850) short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835) 1053 The Roll-Call of the Reef (1931) short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch] 1068 Mangaroo (1926) short story by Naomi Royde-Smith 1075 Sredni Vashtar (1910) short story by Saki 1080 The Mortal Immortal (1891) short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley] 1092 The Primate of the Rose (1928) short story by M. P. Shiel 1108 Called to the Rescue (1863) short story by Henry Spicer 1112 The Enemy (1923) short story by Hugh Walpole 1122 The Inexperienced Ghost (1902) short story by H. G. Wells 1134 Lukundoo (1927) short story by Edward Lucas White [as by E. L. White]
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common—the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world’s fiction.
Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1952. Cover by Leo Ramon Summers. Contents include: The Sex Opposite [Theodore Sturgeon]; The Star Dummy [Anthony Boucher]; Man in the Dark [Roy Huggins]; Angels in the Jets [Jerome Bixby]; I'm Looking for "Jeff" [Fritz Leiber]; Beatrice [Dean Evans]; The Sin of Hyacinth Peuch [Eric Frank Russell]; Miriam [Truman Capote]; The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe]
A collection of 'gothic' tales by writers more commonly associated in other genres. The Charles Beaumont contribution is a first publication and the other stories are reprints.
A Splendid collection of 50 stories from Washington Irving's 'The Adventures Of A German Student' to John Updike's 'The Lucid Eye in Silver Town'.Such classic stories as Edgar Allan Poe’s 'Ms. Found in a Bottle', Bret Harte’s 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat', Sherwood Anderson’s 'Death in the Woods', Stephen Vincent Benét’s 'By the Waters of Babylon'. Also some little-known masterpieces as Edith Wharton’s 'The Dilettante', Finley Peter Dunne’s 'Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman', Charles M. Flandrau’s 'A Dead Issue', and James Reid Parker’s 'The Archimandrite's Niece'.There are also splendid offerings from Melville, Henry James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers, Irwin Shaw, John Cheever and Erskine Caldwell.
Includes tales of horror and suspense by such masters as Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft and many others
Contents 9 Introduction (The Fantasy Hall of Fame) (1983) essay by Robert Silverberg 13 The Masque of the Red Death (1842) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death) 21 An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886) shortstory by Ambrose Bierce 26 The Sword of Welleran (1908) shortstory by Lord Dunsany 42 The Women of the Wood (1926) novelette by A. Merritt (variant of The Woman of the Wood) 76 The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan [Hyperborea] (1932) shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith 86 The Valley of the Worm [James Allison] (1934) novelette by Robert E. Howard 110 Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] (1934) novelette by C. L. Moore 143 The Silver Key [Randolph Carter] (1929) shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft 157 Nothing in the Rules (1939) novelette by L. Sprague de Camp 191 A Gnome There Was (1941) shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ] 221 Snulbug (1941) shortstory by Anthony Boucher 239 The Words of Guru (1941) shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth 248 Homecoming [The Elliott Family] (1946) shortstory by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming) 263 Mazirian the Magician [Dying Earth] (1950) novelette by Jack Vance 282 O Ugly Bird! [John the Balladeer] (1951) shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman 296 The Silken-Swift (1953) shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon 318 The Golem (1955) shortstory by Avram Davidson 325 That Hell-Bound Train (1958) shortstory by Robert Bloch 341 Kings in Darkness [The Elric Saga] (1962) novelette by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn [as by Michael Moorcock ] 375 Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967) novelette by Harlan Ellison 399 Gonna Roll the Bones (1967) novelette by Fritz Leiber 424 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973) shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sixteen stories by the likes of Poe, Ellin, Gallico, and Queen find mystery, murder, and mayhem in circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, and sideshows across the land
A collection of tales featuring aliens, zombies, and everything in between
Collection of favourite short stories from World Fantasy convention members. Published by Robinson in 1990.
It was dark by the time Lucas stopped his taxi in the driveway of the Wheeler home and lumbered up the path to the front entrance. He still wore his heavy boots, despite the spring thaw; his mackinaw and knitted cap were reminders of the hard winter that had come and gone. When Geraldine Wheeler opened the door, wearing her lightweight traveling suit, she shivered at the sight of him. "Come in," she said crisply. "My trunk is inside." Lucas went through the foyer to the stairway, knowing his way around the house, accustomed to its rich dark textures and somber furnishings; he was Medvale's only taxi driver. He found the heavy black trunk at the foot of the stairs, and hoisted it on his back. "That all the luggage, Miss Wheeler?" "That's all. I've sent the rest ahead to the ship. Good heavens, Lucas, aren't you hot in that outfit?" She opened a drawer and rummaged through it. "I've probably forgotten a million things. Gas, electricity, phone . . . Fireplace! Lucas, would you check it for me, please?" "Yes, miss," Lucas said. He went into the living room, past the white-shrouded furniture. There were some glowing embers among the blackened stumps, and he snuffed them out with a poker. A moment later the woman entered, pulling on long silken gloves. "All right," she said breathlessly. "I guess that's all. We can go now." "Yes, miss," Lucas said.
The creator of the irrepressible barrister-sleuth, Rumpole of the Old Bailey, presents a superb collection of classic tales of mystery and suspense. With stories by such authors as P.D. James and Charles Dickens, Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, Edgar Allan Poe and John Mortimer himself, this anthology explores new dimensions in crime writing.
A collection of short stories, in fact masterpieces from such authors as Hawthorne, Poe, Bradbury, Walker and Amy Tan.
Scared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr, and many others who know well how to manipulate a reader's emotions. From Washington Irving comes "The Adventure of My Grandfather" and from Saki, "The Cobweb." Bill Pronzini plays a horrifying game of "Peekaboo," while Frances Garfield portrays "The House at Evening" to alarming effect. This unique and very special collection is like a carnival ride of terror that you'll want to go on again and again.
A collection of stories features the writing of Clive Barker, David J. Schow, Robert Bloch, Graham Masterston, Hugh B. Cave, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Original.
PB - Tales selected by Robert Weinberg, Stefan R Dziemianowiz, & Martin H Greenberg
Very few things are more frightening than unearthly creatures conceived by the masterminds of supernatural fiction. This collection of the macabre includes stories from F. Murray Gilchrist, Edgar Allan Poe, E.F. Benson, others.
A collection of classic stories by Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Roger Zelazny, Edgar Allen Poe, and many others.
Table of Sheckley. IntroductionDonn Byrne. Tale of the PiperGeorge Eliot. The Lifted VeilM. R. James. Number 13M. R. James. RatsM. R. James. Count MagnusG. K. Chesterton. The Queer FeetJ. S. Fletcher. The Ivory GodDaniel Defoe. The Apparition of Mrs. VealE. F. Benson. The Thing in the HallGuy de Maupassant. NightGuy de Maupassant. The Drowned ManGuy de Maupassant. Who Knows?Nathaniel Hawthorne. Young Goodman BrownOscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading GaolEdgar Allan Poe. The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allan Poe. The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe. The Black CatEdgar Allan Poe. LigeiaBram Stoker. The SquawO. Henry. The Last LeafW. W. Jacobs. The WellCharles Dickens. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BargainAmbrose Bierce. Moxon's MasterAmbrose Bierce. The Middle Toe of the Right FootAmbrose Bierce. The Damned ThingF. Marion Crawford. The Upper BerthF. Marion Crawford. Man Overboard!Frederick Marryat. The WerewolfJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Schalken the PainterJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu. CarmillaWilkie Collins. Gabriel's MarriageMrs. Gaskell. The Sexton's Hero
If you're tired of the same ole business. If you want something unique. If you think comic book swimsuit issues are the dumbest thing since Jesse Helms, then here it is, a hot bundle of short stories, a la graphic novel style. Not only does Weird Business contain tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the late, great Robert Bloch, it contains mostly original material that will, to put it mildly, blow the doors off your Chevy. From pure fantasy to dark horror, to humorous whimsy, to noir, to action/adventure and science fiction, this baby is as hot as the devil's cigar. With 23 stories, 56 creators, and 420 pages Weird Business is the largest original comic ever produced in the English language. Weird Business was nominated for the 1996 Eisner Award for best anthology and hailed by the Rocky Mountain News as "Possibly the greatest comic ever."
A nautical tour-de-force featuring tales by some of the outstanding writers of the genre, including: Jonathan Swift Charles Dickens Daniel Defoe Robert Louis Stevenson Edage Allan Poe Herman Melville Francois Rabelais Jules Verne Dante Alighieri Giovanni Boccaccio Christopher Columbus Sir Walter Raleigh
This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting new selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings. Some of these stories are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands - Fisher's Ghost by John Lang is set in Australia and A Ghostly Manifestation by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact), keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other illustrious masters of the genre.
Sleuthing twosomes have long made their mark on detective fiction. From the unnamed narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" who adroitly recounts the virtuosity of the Parisian detective, C. Auguste Dupin; to Dorothy L. Sayers's beloved Lord Peter Wimsey and Mr. Bunter; to Lillian Jackson Braun's interspecies partnership between Phut Phat (an investigative genius who happens to be a cat) and one of its owners; detective duos have come in all guises. Indeed, there are almost as many variations of compatriot crimefighters as there are types of mystery and detective fiction. In this marvelous anthology, a real-life detective duo--married mystery novelists Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini--have brought together 25 of the best paired puzzle-solvers in short stories of remarkable range and scope. Here are traditional tandems: Sherlock and his admiring Watson, in a devilish puzzler "The Adventure of the Empty House," alongside Nero Wolfe and his (less fawning) employee, Archie Goodwin, in "Fourth of July Picnic." Husband and wife teams are well represented by Frances and Richard Lockridge's Mr. and Mrs. North, Kelley Roos's Jeff and Haila Troy, and Patrick Quentin's Peter and Iris Duluth. Amateurs work alongside professional crimesolvers in such stories as Julie Smith's never-before-published "The End of the Earth," featuring Skip Langdon and Steve Steinman, and the clue-seeking precursors to television's Quincy appear as partnered forensic pathologists Dr. Daniel Coffee and Dr. Motilal Mookerji in Lawrence G. Blochman's "The Phantom Cry-Baby." Sleuthing tandems come in different sexes, so we find Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone and Rae Kelleher alongside Fredric Brown's Ed and Am Hunter, as well as Bill Pronzini's Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon, where crime solving crosses barriers of both gender and time. And here too is a treasure chest of detective fiction styles: pure deduction, the impossible crime, the cozy, the dark comedy, espionage, the procedural, and more, in locales as varied as the crimes themselves, from England, to Antarctica, to fast-moving trains crossing America. Spanning more than a century of crime fiction, including both classic tales by the greats of mystery writing as well as gems from lesser-known writers, Detective Duos will captivate the sleuth in all of us.
The great Raymond Chandler once noted that "the detective or mystery story . . . has become so thoroughly explored that the real problem for a writer now is to avoid writing a mystery while appearing to do so." And that is precisely what the contributors in this masterful anthology have accomplished. For in The Vintage Book of Classic Crime , Michael Dibdin has assembled fifty-four of the most stylish, original and subversive examples of the literature of murder. Whether written by eminent practitioners such as James M. Cain or Dashiell Hammett, or distinguished "amateurs" like Ernest Hemingway or Franz Kafka, the stories, essays, and novel excerpts in this volume push past their genre's familiar conventions to explore what makes crime CRIME. Suspenseful and exhilarating, hard-boiled and high art, the result is a dazzling gallery of murder that reveals how daring and controversial crime writing can be. Contributors and stories include: James M. Cain, "The Postman Always Rings Twice"' Raymond Chandler, "Pick-up on Noon Street"; Anton Chekhov, "The Shooting Party"; Umberto Eco; William Faulkner, "Smoke"; Dashiell Hammett, "The Glass Key"; Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers"; George V. Higgins, "Trust"; Patricia Highsmith, "Strangers on a Train"; P.D. James and T.A. Critchley, "The Maul and the Pear Tree"; James Joyce; Franz Kafka; Elmore Leonard; Walter Mosley, "A Red Death"; Edgar Allan Poe,"The Tell-tale Heart"; Georges Simenon, "Maiget's Memoirs"; Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Under the Knife"; Julian Symons, "The Man Who Killed Himself"; Barbara Vine, "A Dark-Adapted Eye"; James Thurber; Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; and Emile Zola, "Therese Raquin."
From Washington Irving to Zora Neale Hurston, Edgar Allan Poe to Allen Ginsberg, more than one hundred writers of the twentieth century pay testament to the unique charms and foibles of Manhattan, in an annotated hundredth-anniversary anthology.
An outstanding array of crime fiction by some of today's leading authors is accompanied by short stories from the acclaimed writers who inspired them and features works by Ian Rankin, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Evan Hunter, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and other notables.
The Sun has set, the campfire is lit, and dark night presses insuddenly, the wilderness seems very big and very scary. In the good old-fashioned tradition of story-telling, The Campfire Collection offers twenty-five spine-tingling tales, both true and fictional, of the human experience in the great outdoors. From beastly attacks, to brushes with death and supernatural encounters, this anthology captures the cruel, sometimes macabre, side of Mother Nature. And it isn't pretty. Haruki Murakami describes a life destroying tsunami, and Cynthia Dusel-Bacon gives an agonizingly detailed account of being mauled by a bear. Rounded corners and durable cover make this a suitable companion for any overnight excursion, and large type means easy radin by campfire or flashlight. Whether you're just pitching a tent in the backyard or all the way up on the top of Mount Everest, The Campfire Collection is a chilling read from writers who have lived to tell.
A collection of horror fiction includes works by Edgar Allen Poe, Iain Banks, Marjorie Bowen, and Rudyard Kipling.
Gathering forty important short stories in a portable and economical format, the second edition includes even more of the fiction instructors want to teach and more of the help student readers need.
Over twenty classic tales of the supernatural from the imaginations of Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Robert W Chambers, M.R. James, and many more.
A detective fiction anthology filled with award winning short stories, information on the authors who wrote them, discussion about the history and evolution of the genre, and important literary criticism.
Written by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, Lovecraft's 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" traces the evolution of the genre from the early Gothic novels through to the work of contemporary American and British authors. Throughout Lovecraft acknowledges those writers and stories that are the very finest that the horror field has to offer: Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, and Arthur Conan Doyle, among others. This chilling new collection also contains Henry James' wonderfully atmospheric short novel The Turn of the Screw . Stephen Jones is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Award, and a fifteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award. He lives in London.
Collected within are thirteen tales of horror and the macabre. Five classic works by author's such as Edgar Allen Poe and H.G. Wells have inspired a new generation of twisted authors, tainted them, if you will. Keep the lights on; Tainted is loaded with darkness.
An anthology finalist in the NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS, "6a66le: The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849" delivers 12 of the greatest horror stories for the first half of the nineteenth century. Andrew Barger, the editor of this book, read over 300 horror short stories to compile the 12 best. At the back of the book he includes a list of all short stories he considered along with their dates of publication and author, when available. He even includes background for each of the stories and author photos. A number of the stories were published in leading periodicals of the day such as Blackwood's and Atkinson's Casket . Read The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849 today! 'The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849' will likely become a best seller . . .What makes this collection (of truly terrifying tales!) so satisfying is the presence of a brief introduction before each story, sharing some comments about the writer and elements of the tale. Barger has once again whetted our appetites for fright, spent countless hours making these twelve stories accessible and available, and has provided in one book the best of the best of horror short stories. It is a winner. GRADY HARP - AMAZON TOP TEN REVIEWER Barger aims for readers both scholarly and casual, ensuring that the authors get their due while making the work accessible overall to the mainstream. BOOKGASM [a] top to bottom pick for anyone who appreciates where the best of horror came from. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
From an innovative tale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to influential works by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and H. G. Wells, this anthology traces the rise of modern fantasy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Linked by the concept of dreams and imagination, these twenty-three tales were created by writers who inspired storytellers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and other master fantasists. Featured stories include a fable by Edgar Allan Poe, a tall tale by Lafcadio Hearn, and Alfred Tennyson's evocative journey to Camelot in "The Lady of Shalott." A gripping tragedy by Edith Nesbit, "The Poor Lovers" is reprinted here for the first time since its initial publication. Other selections include an allegorical fairy tale, "The Golden Key," by George MacDonald; an episode from William Morris's retelling of the Icelandic epic Völsunga Saga; and a memorable chapter, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn," from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows . Anthologist Mike Ashley offers an informative preface and brief introductions to the stories about the authors' roles in the development of modern fantasy.
A collection of truly gripping stories, with contributions from leading horror writers dedicated to the popular contemporary sub-genre of "body horror," which revolves around disease and mutation, whether self-inflicted or otherwise.