From the jacket: "Over 500 pages of chills and thrills edited by Dashiell Hammett. Exciting stories wherein things that can't happen and ought not to happen do happen!" 20 classic stories of terror from such masters as H.P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, William Faulkner, John Collier, Conrad Aiken, Stephen Vincent Benet and others, with an introduction by Hammett.
CONTENTS
Introduction essay by Dashiell Hammett
A Woman Alone with Her Soul by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Green Thoughts by John Collier
The Ghost of Alexander Perks, A.B. by Robert Dean Frisbie
The House by André Maurois
The Kill by Peter Fleming
Ten O'Clock by Philip MacDonald
The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Breakdown by L. A. G. Strong
The Witch's Vengeance by W. B. Seabrook
The Rat by S. Fowler Wright
Faith, Hope and Charity by Irvin S. Cobb
Mr. Arcularis by Conrad Aiken
The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft
The Strange Case of Mrs. Arkwright by Harold Dearden
The King of the Cats by Stephen Vincent Benét
The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei
The Phantom Bus by W. Elwyn Backus
Beyond the Door by J. Paul Suter
Perchance to Dream by Michael Joyce
A Visitor from Egypt by Frank Belknap Long
From the jacket: "Over 500 pages of chills and thrills edited by Dashiell Hammett. Exciting stories wherein things that can't happen and ought not to happen do happen!" 20 classic stories of terror from such masters as H.P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, William Faulkner, John Collier, Conrad Aiken, Stephen Vincent Benet and others, with an introduction by Hammett.
CONTENTS
Introduction essay by Dashiell Hammett
A Woman Alone with Her Soul by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Green Thoughts by John Collier
The Ghost of Alexander Perks, A.B. by Robert Dean Frisbie
The House by André Maurois
The Kill by Peter Fleming
Ten O'Clock by Philip MacDonald
The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Breakdown by L. A. G. Strong
The Witch's Vengeance by W. B. Seabrook
The Rat by S. Fowler Wright
Faith, Hope and Charity by Irvin S. Cobb
Mr. Arcularis by Conrad Aiken
The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft
The Strange Case of Mrs. Arkwright by Harold Dearden
The King of the Cats by Stephen Vincent Benét
The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei
The Phantom Bus by W. Elwyn Backus
Beyond the Door by J. Paul Suter
Perchance to Dream by Michael Joyce
A Visitor from Egypt by Frank Belknap Long