Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror

Great Short stories of Mystery and Terror from great authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant etc.

Contents: The red-headed league / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The turn of the tide / C. S. Forester -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe -- The third floor flat / Agatha Christie -- The man who liked Dickens / Evelyn Waugh -- Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant -- The fourth man / John Russell -- The wendigo / Algernon Blackwood -- The touch of nutmeg makes it / John Collier -- The absence of Mr. Glass / G. K. Chesterton.
-- Miriam / Truman Capote -- The log of the evening star / Alfred Noyes -- Casting the runes / M. R. James -- Man from the south / Roald Dahl -- The whole town's sleeping / Ray Bradbury -- The arrow of God / Leslie Charteris -- The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany -- The Gettysburg bugle / Ellery Queen -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Don't look now / Daphne du Maurier -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- An alpine divorce / Robert Barr -- The.
incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr -- Thanatos Palace Hotel / Andre Maurois -- The ghost-ship / Richard Middleton -- The rats in the walls / H. P. Lovecraft -- After-dinner story / William Irish -- Another solution / Gilbert Highet -- The waxwork / A. M. Burrage -- For your eyes only / Ian Fleming -- The foghorn / Gertrude Atherton -- Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson -- The interruption /W. W. Jacobs -- An invitation to the hunt / George Hitchcock -- The.
voice in the night / William Hope Hodgson -- Midnight blue / Ross Macdonald -- The return of Imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Journey backward into time / Georges Simenon -- The movie people /Robert Bloch -- Broker's special / Stanley Ellin -- The sea raiders / H. G. Wells -- The case of the irate witness . Erlw Stanley Gardner -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H. H. Munro) -- The nine billion names of God / Arthur C. Clarke.and mystery stories, English.