Famous Tales of the Fantastic ed. Herbert van Thal (Arthur Barker, 1965, 18/-, 207pp, hc, an)
Eleven stories of fantasy and horror. Paperback edition omits two stories. US edition from Hill & Wang, 1965.
- 9 · Invisible Boy · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle November 1945
- 23 · The King Is Dead, Long Live the King · Mary Coleridge · ss Rare Bits September 1890
- 35 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
- 65 · Comrade Pigeon · Romain Gary · ss Hissing Tales by Romain Gary, Harper & Row, 1964
- 73 · The Crossways · L. P. Hartley · ss Children’s Ship ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1950
- 85 · The Roll-Call of the Reef · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q
- 105 · The Ballroom · William Sansom · ss Among the Dahlias by William Sansom, Hogarth Press, 1957
- 117 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 (+3)
- 149 · The Magic Shop · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine June 1903
- 165 · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine”
- 199 · The Adventures of the German Student · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon, John Murray, 1824
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