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Great short tales of mystery and terror
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Great short tales of mystery and terror

Publisher: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, ©1982.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st ed
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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
ISBN: 0895770911 9780895770912
OCLC Number: 8952263
Description: 639 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The red-headed league / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The turn of the tide / C. S. Forester -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The cask of Amontillado / 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 -- Man from the south / Roald Dahl -- The whole town's sleeping / Ray Bradbury -- The arrow of God / Leslie Charteris -- The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany -- The Gettysburg bugle / Ellery Queen -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Don't look now / Daphne du Maurier -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- An alpine divorce / Robert Barr -- The incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr -- Thanatos Palace Hotel / Andre Maurois -- The ghost-ship / Richard Middleton -- The rats in the walls / H. P. Lovecraft -- After-dinner story / William Irish -- Another solution / Gilbert Highet -- The waxwork / A. M. Burrage -- For your eyes only / Ian Fleming -- The foghorn / Gertrude Atherton -- Leiningen versus the ants / Carl 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 return 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 witness . Erle Stanley Gardner -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H. H. Munro) -- The nine billion names of God / Arthur C. Clarke.
Other Titles: Reader's digest condensed books (Pleasantville, N.Y.)
Responsibility: selected by the editors of Reader's digest condensed books ; illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon.

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