Thrillers (Bracken Books, October 1994, 1-85891-159-1, £5.99, 612pp, hc, an)
Reprint (Daily Express 1935 as Century of Thrillers: Second Series) anthology of 32 classic horror stories (ten omitted from the original), with an introduction by Robert Sheckley.
- · Introduction · Robert Sheckley · in
- 1 · Tale of the Piper · Donn Byrne · vi Destiny Bay by Donn Byrne, Little Brown, 1928
- 5 · The Lifted Veil · George Eliot · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine July 1859, uncredited.
- 47 · Number 13 · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904
- 63 · The Rats · M. R. James · ss At Random March 23 1929
- 69 · Count Magnus · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904
- 82 · The Queer Feet [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 1 1910, as “Why the True Fishermen Always Wear Green Evening Coats”
- 101 · The Ivory God · Joseph S. Fletcher · ss The London Magazine October 1905
- 115 · The Apparition of Mrs. Veal · Daniel Defoe · ar B. Bragg, 1706, as “A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705”, uncredited.
- 124 · The Thing in the Hall · E. F. Benson · nv The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills & Boon, 1912
- 137 · Night · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“La Nuit”, Gil Blas, June 14, 1887).
- 142 · The Drowned Man · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“Le Noyé”, Le Gaulois, August 16, 1888).
- 149 · Who Knows? · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“Qui sait?”, L’Echo de Paris, April 6, 1890).
- 162 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- 175 · The Ballad of Reading Gaol · Oscar Wilde · pm Leonard Smithers, February 13 1898, as by C.3.3.
- 194 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843
- 199 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839
- 218 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843
- 229 · Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · nv American Museum September 18 1838
- 245 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893
- 257 · The Last Leaf · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World October 15 1905
- 263 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Queen June 23 1900
- 276 · The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain · Charles Dickens · na Bradbury & Evans, December 19 1848
- 362 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s”
- 372 · The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890
- 381 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893
- 390 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885
- 411 · Man Overboard! · F. Marion Crawford · nv Collier’s Weekly April 4 1903 (+2)
- 447 · The Werewolf · Frederick Marryat · ex from The Phantom Ship, Henry Colburn, May 1839
- 468 · Schalken the Painter · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, James McGlashan, 1851
revised from “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” (Dublin University Magazine May 1839).
- 491 · Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] · Sheridan Le Fanu · na The Dark Blue December 1871 (+3)
- 559 · Gabriel’s Marriage · Wilkie Collins · nv Household Words April 16 1853 (+1), uncredited.
- 603 · The Sexton’s Hero · Mrs. Gaskell · ss Howilt’s Journal September 4 1847, as by Cotton Mather Mills
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