Great tales of terror and the supernatural / ed. by Herbert A. Wise & Phyllis Fraser.
| Author/creator | Wise, Herbert A. |
| Other author | Fraser, Phyllis, 1911-2006. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Modern Library, ©1944. |
| Description | xix, 1080 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | La grande bretêche / Honoré de Balzac -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe -- A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The interruption / W.W. Jacobs -- Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells -- The sea raiders / H.G. Wells -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- Moonlight sonata / Alexander Woollcott -- Silent snow, secret snow / Conrad Aiken -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- Leningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- The gentleman from America / Michael Arlen -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Back for Christmas / John Collier -- Taboo / Geoffrey Household -- The haunters and the haunted or the house and the brain / Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The trial for murder / Charles Collins and Charles Dickens -- Green tea / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brein -- Sir Edmund Orme / Henry James -- The horla / Guy de Maupassant -- Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant -- The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford -- |
| Contents | The furnished room / O. Henry -- Casting the runes / M.R. James -- Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad / M.R. James -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The great god Pan / Arthur Machen -- How love came to professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- The return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling -- "They" / Rudyard Kipling -- Lukundoo / Edward Lucas White -- Caterpillars / E.F. Benson -- Mrs. Amsworth / E.F. Benson -- Ancient sorceries / Algernon Blackwood -- Confession / Algernon Blackwood -- The open window / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- Out of the deep / Walter de la Mare -- Adam and Eve and pinch me / A.E. Coppard -- The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- The ghost ship / Richard Middleton -- The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- The Dunwich horror / H.P. Lovecraft. |
| Abstract | Collection of ghost stories. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Wise, Herbert Alvin. Great tales of terror and the supernatural. New York : Modern Library, c1944 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN6071.H6 W5 1944 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |