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Great Ghost Stories (Watermill Classic, 1994, 0-816-70468-6, $2.95, 91pp, pb, an, cover by Mia Tavonatti) 1 · Keeping His Promise · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1906 23 · Caterpillars · E. F. Benson · ss The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills Boon, 1912 36 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893 55 · The Hand · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903, as “The Englishman” translated from the French (“La main”, Le Gaulois, December 23, 1883). 65 · The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890 77 · Dickon the Devil [Martin Hesselius] · J. S. Le Fanu · ss London Society Christmas 1872

Great Ghost Stories (Reader’s Digest, 1997, 0-276-42330-5, 528pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 46 ghost stories selected by editors of The Reader’s Digest. 9 · Introduction · The Editors · in 13 · Ringing the Changes · Robert Aickman · nv The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 36 · The Corner Shop · Cynthia Asquith · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine September 1926 48 · The Whip Hand · A. L. Barker · ss Tales to Make the Flesh Creep ed. Herbert van Thal, John Constable, 1977 60 · A Tough Tussle · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner September 30 1888 66 · Transition · Algernon Blackwood · ss The New Witness December 11 1913, as “Mudbury’s Xmas Adventure” 71 · The Crowd · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May 1943 79 · The Buick Saloon · Ann Bridge · ss The Cornhill Magazine June 1930, as by Mary O’Malley 92 · The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar February 1868 101 · Smee · A. M. Burrage · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine December 1929 110 · The July Ghost · A. S. Byatt · nv Firebird 1 ed. Tim J. Binding, Penguin, 1982 122 · “To Let” · B. M. Croker · ss London Society Christmas 1890 135 · The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees · Robertson Davies · ss High Spirits by Robertson Davies, Penguin, 1982 143 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury April 1922 166 · No. 1 Branch Line, the Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866 176 · Autumn Cricket · Lord Dunsany · ss John Bull April 29 1950 180 · The Ghosts of Calagou · Elizabeth Fancett · ss The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume Two ed. Richard Dalby, Virago, 1991 187 · The Shepherd · Frederick Forsyth · na Hutchinson, 1975 209 · Florinda · Shamus Frazer · ss The London Mystery Magazine #29, June 1956 216 · The Old Nurse’s Story · Elizabeth Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited. 232 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories by Graham Greene, Heinemann, 1947 237 · Someone in the Lift · L. P. Hartley · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 242 · The Gateway of the Monster [Thomas Carnacki] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Idler January 1910 258 · The Shadow of a Shade · Tom Hood · ss Bow Bells Christmas 1869 270 · The Old Man · Holloway Horn · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 275 · Three Miles Up · Elizabeth Jane Howard · nv We Are for the Dark by Elizabeth Jane Howard & Robert Aickman, Cape, 1951 290 · The Romance of Certain Old Clothes · Henry James · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1868, uncredited. 305 · The Ash Tree · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 315 · The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885 332 · The Tower · Marghanita Laski · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 338 · 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 1939). 356 · Black Dog · Penelope Lively · ss Nothing Missing But the Samovar by Penelope Lively, Heinemann, 1978 362 · The Highboy · Alison Lurie · ss Redbook October 1990, as “A Curious Haunting” 373 · The Taipan · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1922 379 · An Apparition · Guy de Maupassant · ss Romance February 1891 translated from the French (“Apparition”, Le Gaulois, April 4, 1883). 385 · Man-Size in Marble · Edith Nesbit · nv Home Chimes December 1887 396 · William Wilson · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1840, Carey & Hart, 1839 411 · The Queen of Spades · Alexandre Pushkin · nv (r) translated from the Russian (“Pouschkine”, Biblioteka dlya chteniya, March 1834). 431 · I Used to Live Here Once · Jean Rhys · vi Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys, Andre Deutsch, 1976 433 · The Body-Snatcher · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv Pall Mall Gazette Christmas 1884 447 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891 461 · Poor Girl · Elizabeth Taylor · nv The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 476 · Blind Man’s Buff · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Sketch April 25 1928 480 · Dual Control · Elizabeth Walter · nv Dead Woman by Elizabeth Walter, Collins and Harvill Press, 1975 488 · Breakages · Fay Weldon · ss The Midnight Ghost Book ed. James Hale, Barrie & Jenkins, 1978 496 · The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review February 23 1887 (+1) 518 · Angeline, or the Haunted House · Émile Zola · ss The Star January 16 1899

The Great God Pan & Xelucha (Creation Oneiros, July 31, 2012, 978-1-902197-34-0, $14.95, 127pp, tp, an)     Anthology of the novella “The Great God Pan” by Arthur Machen (this follows the expanded 1984 edition) and “Xelucha” by M.P. Shiel. Illustrated by Austin Osman Spare. Introductions by Iain S. Smith, James Havoc, and Simon Dwyer. Foreword by H.P. Lovecraft. Details taken from online listing. · The Great God Pan · Arthur Machen · na The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1894 a portion appeared earlier in The Whirlwind, Dec 13, 1890. · Xélucha · M. P. Shiel · ss Shapes in the Fire by M. P. Shiel, John Lane, 1896

Great Murder Mysteries (Octopus/Chartwell, October 1988, 1-55521-249-2, $9.98, 665pp, hc, an)     Adds one story to 65 Great Murder Mysteries edited by Mary Danby (Octopus 1983). 9 · Evidence in Camera · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine June 1949 22 · The Case of the Emerald Sky [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch July 10 1940 30 · Acid Test · Margot Arnold · ss The Tenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1977 37 · Eye Witness · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 28 1939 49 · The Murder of the Mandarin · Arnold Bennett · ss Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett, Chatto, 1907 59 · Nemesis · Phyllis Bentley · ss The Windsor Magazine July 1939 68 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 82 · Sweets to the Sweet · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales March 1947 89 · Nightmare in Yellow · Fredric Brown · vi The Dude May 1961 91 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 106 · Baby · Ramsey Campbell · ss Star Book of Horror, No. 2 ed. Hugh Lamb, Star Books, 1976 121 · A Note for the Milkman · Sidney Carroll · ss Today’s Woman April 1950 130 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 5 1910, as “The Bolt from the Blue” 143 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Sunday Dispatch September 22 1929, as “The Uncrossed Path” 151 · Coroner’s Inquest · Marc Connelly · vi Collier’s February 8 1930 156 · Banquo’s Chair · Rupert Croft-Cooke · ss Pharaoh and His Waggons and Other Stories by Rupert Croft-Cooke, Jarrolds, 1937 162 · Esmeralda · John Keir Cross · ss The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross, Westhouse, 1944 177 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953 186 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited. 195 · The Corpse Light · Dick Donovan · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899 204 · The Veiled Lodger [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Liberty January 22 1927, as “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” 213 · Surprise! Surprise! · Roger F. Dunkley · ss The Eleventh Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1978 219 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 230 · The Kill · Peter Fleming · ss Creeps by Night ed. Dashiell Hammett, John Day, 1931 240 · Something to Do with Figures · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #21, March 1945 249 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 257 · The Blood on the Innocents · Celia Fremlin · ss By Horror Haunted by Celia Fremlin, Gollancz, 1974 264 · The Squire’s Story · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · ss Household Words Christmas 1853, uncredited. 277 · Earth to Earth · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955 281 · Mrs. Manifold · Stephen Grendon · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949 291 · The Two Vaynes · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review #22, December 1950 300 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 305 · Dark Journey · Francis Iles · ss News Chronicle April 30 1934 (+4) 320 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Pocket Magazine June 1901 330 · Moment of Power · P. D. James · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1968 345 · Another Shot in the Locker · Michael Kent · ss Pearson’s Magazine June 1929 352 · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap by Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray” 362 · The Lady with the Hatchet [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · ss Metropolitan Magazine May 1922 379 · A Thousand Deaths · Jack London · ss The Black Cat May 1899 387 · Homicidal Hiccup · John D. MacDonald · ss Detective Tales June 1948 393 · The Sound of Murder · William P. McGivern · ss Bluebook October 1952 402 · An Official Position · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan July 1937 419 · Vendetta · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903, as “Semillante” translated from the French (“Une vendetta”, Le Gaulois, October 14, 1883). 423 · Such a Good Idea · Andrea Newman · ss Tales of Unease ed. John Burke, Pan, 1966 429 · The Regent’s Park Murder [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1901 441 · The Blind Spot · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #25, November 1945 452 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 458 · The House by the Headland · “Sapper” · ss The Sovereign Magazine March 1920 470 · Suspicion · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Mystery League October 1933 483 · The Second Step · Margery Sharp · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1934 491 · The Case of Arnold Schuttringer [Monsieur Froget] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1942 translated from the French (Les 13 Coupables, 1932). 498 · The People Next Door · Pauline C. Smith · ss The Mysterious Traveler Magazine June 1952 503 · The King of Spades · Nancy Spain · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 510 · The Portobello Road · Muriel Spark · nv Winter’s Tales 2, Macmillan, 1956 528 · Blue Murder · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine October 1925 544 · The Murder · John Steinbeck · ss North American Review April 1934 554 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 567 · The Secret of the Growing Gold · Bram Stoker · ss Black & White January 23 1892 578 · A Theme for Hyacinth · Julian Symons · ss Argosy (UK) August 1967 596 · Miss Smith · William Trevor · ss Transatlantic Review #25, Summer 1967 605 · The Treasure Hunt [J. G. Reeder] · Edgar Wallace · ss Flynn’s November 22 1924 619 · The Snow · Hugh Walpole · ss The (London) Evening News December 21 1928 626 · The Cone · H. G. Wells · ss Unicorn September 18 1895 635 · In the Fog · Dennis Wheatley · ss The (London) Evening News May 29 1953 640 · The Cyprian Bees [Dr. Eustace Hailey] · Anthony Wynne · ss Flynn’s February 6 1926 654 · Drawn Into Error · Elizabeth Ferrars · ss Planned Departures ed. Elizabeth Ferrars, Hodder & Stoughton, 1958

Great Murder Stories ed. Ken Crossen, uncredited (Penguin, January 1948, 655, 432pp, hc, an)     Abridged version of Murder Cavalcade (Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1946). vii · Preface · Richard Lockridge · pr 3 · His Heart Could Break [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1943 24 · Eye Witness · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 28 1939 43 · Behind the Door · Percival Wilde · ss Collier’s February 4 1928 46 · Twenty-Dollar Debt · Lawrence Treat · ss Adventure February 1940 63 · The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman [Solar Pons] · August Derleth · ss “In Re: Sherlock Holmes” by August Derleth, Mycroft & Moran, 1945 79 · The Corpse in Grampa’s Bed [Quinny Hite] · Richard Burke · ss (r) 97 · The Homecoming · Dorothy B. Hughes · ss Murder Cavalcade, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946 111 · Trick-or-Treat · Anthony Boucher · ts The Master Detective June 1945, as “The Ghost with the Gun” 125 · The Million-Dollar Motive · Brett Halliday · nv The Master Detective 145 · The Cafe Society Murder · Edward D. Radin · ar True Detective 177 · The Golden Twenty · Ellery Queen · ar Good Housekeeping May 1944 (+1); “The Ten Most Important Books of Detective Short Stories” and “The Ten Most Important Detective Novels”.

Great Science Fiction Stories (Octopus, 1979, 702pp, hc, an) 9 · 2001: A Space Odyssey [Space Odyssey] · Arthur C. Clarke · n. New American Library, 1968 161 · The Demolished Man · Alfred Bester · n. Shasta, 1953 329 · The Day of the Triffids [Triffids] · John Wyndham · n. Doubleday, March 1951 529 · I, Robot [Robots] · Isaac Asimov · co Gnome Press, 1950

Great Science Fiction Stories (St. Michael, 1982, 0-904230-98-8, 702pp, hc, an, cover by Chris Moore)     Reprint (Octopus 1979) sf anthology. First ed by Octopus and Heinemenn and Secker & Warburg. Revised edition (sic) 1982. Not sure what’s been altered.

Great Short Stories for Your Reading Pleasure (Royce, 1943, #106, pb, an)     Details supplied by Richard Bleiler. 3 · The Book Bag · W. Somerset Maugham · nv The Book-Bag: 20 Best Short Stories in Ray Long’s 20 Years as an Editor ed. Ray Long, Crown, 1932 70 · Guilty · Fannie Hurst · nv Cosmopolitan February 1921 114 · The Christmas Tree and the Wedding · Fyodor Dostoyevsky · ss Best Russian Short Stories ed. Thomas Seltzer, Boni & Liveright, 1917

Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (Readers Digest, 1982, 0-89577-091-1, 629pp, hc, an)     Some stories condensed. 9 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 27 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 36 · The Summer People · Shirley Jackson · ss Charm September 1950 48 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 54 · The Third Floor Flat [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine January 1929 72 · The Man Who Liked Dickens · Evelyn Waugh · ss Cosmopolitan September 1933 86 · Was It a Dream? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La morte”, Gil Blas, May 31, 1887). 91 · The Fourth Man · John Russell · nv Collier’s January 6 1917 107 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Nash, 1910 136 · The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It · John Collier · ss The New Yorker May 3 1941 144 · The Absence of Mr. Glass [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss McClure’s Magazine November 1912 156 · Miriam · Truman Capote · ss Mademoiselle June 1945 168 · The Log of the Evening Star · Alfred Noyes · ss The Ladies’ Home Journal June 1918, as “The Mystery of the Evening Star” 180 · Casting the Runes · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Arnold, 1911 196 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item” 207 · The Whole Town’s Sleeping [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss McCall’s September 1950 222 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949 241 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 254 · The Gettysburg Bugle [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #90, May 1951, as “As Simple as ABC” 280 · Don’t Look Now · Daphne du Maurier · na Ladies’ Home Journal December 1970 313 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 326 · An Alpine Divorce · Robert Barr · ss The English Illustrated Magazine October 1893 331 · The Incautious Burglar [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine October 1940, as “A Guest in the House” 346 · Thanatos Palace Hotel · André Maurois · ss 1967 360 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Magazine April 1912 370 · The Rats in the Walls · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales March 1924 388 · After-Dinner Story [Hardecker] · William Irish · nv Black Mask January 1938, as by Cornell Woolrich 409 · Another Solution · Gilbert Highet · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1951 414 · The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 426 · For Your Eyes Only [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming, Jonathan Cape, 1960 454 · The Foghorn · Gertrude Atherton · ss Good Housekeeping November 1933 463 · Leiningen Versus the Ants · Carl Stephenson · nv Esquire December 1938 translated from the German (“Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen”, 1937). 483 · The Interruption · W. W. Jacobs · ss Liberty July 4 1925 495 · An Invitation to the Hunt · George Hitchcock · ss San Francisco Review March 1960 505 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1907 518 · Midnight Blue [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1, 1960 548 · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap by Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray” 559 · Journey Backward Into Time [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956, as “Journey Into Time” translated from the French (“Les Larmes de Bougie”, Paris-Soir-Dimanche, November 22, 1936). 570 · The Movie People · Robert Bloch · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1969 581 · Broker’s Special · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1956 592 · The Sea-Raiders · H. G. Wells · ss The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement December 6 1896 602 · The Case of the Irate Witness [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Collier’s January 17 1953 618 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 623 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953