The Best Horror Stories

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Anthology of 55 horror stories. The black cat ; The tell-tale heart ; The premature burial / Edgar Allan Poe. The torture of hope / Villiers de l'Isle Adam. An episode of the terror / Honoré de Balzac. The hand / Guy de Maupassant. The withered arm / Thomas Hardy. The idiots / Joseph Conrad. The bird / Thomas Burke. The terror / Arthur Machen. Lot No. 249 / Arthur Conan Doyle. The apprentice / Hilaire Belloc. The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski. The killers / Ernest Hemingway. Arabesque : the mouse / A. E. Coppard. Treasure trove / F. Tennyson Jesse. Cinci / Luigi Pirandello. Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers. The last chukka / Alec Waugh. Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich. Taboo / Geoffrey Household. A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene. The words of guru / C. M. Kornbluth. Yours truly, Jack the ripper / Robert Bloch. The glass eye / John Keir Cross. The web / D'Arcy Niland. The little black bag / C. M. Kornbluth. The phsysiology of fear ; The head and the feet / C. S. Forester. The veld ; Skeleton / Ray Bradbury. Evening primrose / John Collier. Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg. A rose for Emily / William Faulkner. The island of bright birds / John Christopher. The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor. The skylight / Penelope Mortimer. Pig / Roald Dahl. Robert ; The question / Stanley Ellin. In the steam room / Frank Baker. The pencil / Edmund Crispin. The dark of the moon / Olaf Ruhen. Falling object / William Brittain. The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith. The taste of your love / Eddy C. Bertin. Aunt Jennie's tonic / Leonard Tushnet. Not after midnight / Daphne du Maurier. The game / Thomasina Weber. The fanatic / Arthur Porges. The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison. Judas story / Brian M. Stableford. You're putting me on -- aren't you? / Joe Gores. Wake up dead / Tim Stout. Corabella / David Fletcher. -- introduction by Lynn Picknett.