Post by demonik on Nov 11, 2008 7:15:32 GMT -5
H. Douglas Thomson (ed.) - The Great Book Of Thrillers (Odhams, 1935)
Introduction
Stories Of Mystery And Adventure
A. J. Alan - H2, Etc.
Michael Arlen - The Smell In The Library
W. E. Aytoun - The Man In The Bell
Honore De Balzac - The Mysterious Mansion
Marjorie Bowen - The Folding Doors
Wilkie Collins - The Lady Of Glenwith Grange
J. S. Fletcher - The New Sun
Val Gielgud - Hot Water
L. P. Hartley - The Island
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Edward Randolph’s Portrait
Washington Irving - The Spectre Bridegroom
Frederick Marryat - The Story Of The Greek Slave
Prosper Merimee - The Blue Room
E. Phillips Oppenheim - The Cafe Of Terror
Edgar Allan Poe - The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar
Hugh Walpole - The Tarn
Samuel Warren - The Resurrectionist
Stories Of Crime And Detection
Anthony Berkeley - The Avenging Chance
Agatha Christie - The Witness For The Prosecution
G. D. H. & M. Cole - A Lesson In Crime
Freeman Wills Croft - Mr. Pembleton’s Commission
Gilbert Frankau - Who Killed Castelvetri
R. Austin Freeman - The Aluminium Dagger
Herbert Jenkins - The Gylston Slander
Maurice LeBlanc - Arsene Lupin In Paris
Baroness Orczy - The Fenchurch Street Mystery
Eden Phillpotts - Peacock House
John Rhode - The Vanishing Dagger
Dorothy L. Sayes - Bitter Almonds
Stories Of The Supernatural
E. F. Benson - The Gardener
Anon - A Spanish Ghost Story
Ambrose Bierce - Staley Fleming’s Hallucination
Catherine Crowe - The Italian’s Story
Daniel Defoe - The Ghost Of Dorothy Dingley
Charles Dickens - To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt
Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach
Sheridan Le Fanu - Madam Crowl’s Ghost
Jeffrey Farnol - Black Coffee
John Galt - The Black Ferry
Theophile Gautier - The Dreamland Bride
Gerald Griffin - The Dilemma Of Phadrig
James Hogg - Mary Burnet
W. W. Jacobs - The Three Sisters
Arthur Machen - The Bowmen
Norman MacLeod - The Doctor’s Ghost
Walter De La Mare - Mr. Kempe
Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber
H. Russell Wakefield - The Frontier Guards
H. G. Wells - The Red Room
Oscar Wilde - The Spinx Without A Secret
Apart from the diligent selections, something I adore about collections like these are the little plot outlines against each story on the contents pages, the seventeen full page illustrations (including an Ernest Wallcousin screamer for Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar) and cute little sketches of each author, the exceptions being A. J. Alan and the prolific anonymous, who are represented by a '?''
To prove that Man has a soul - that was Mr. Kempe’s terrifying problem. And there was danger for the stranger on the cliffside where he lived.
The frightful ordeal of a man at the mercy of an iron-tongued monster in a belfry.
How a respectable young medical student became for one night a body-stealer, and what fears and horrors assailed him during his gruesome adventure in a moonlit graveyard
Introduction
Stories Of Mystery And Adventure
A. J. Alan - H2, Etc.
Michael Arlen - The Smell In The Library
W. E. Aytoun - The Man In The Bell
Honore De Balzac - The Mysterious Mansion
Marjorie Bowen - The Folding Doors
Wilkie Collins - The Lady Of Glenwith Grange
J. S. Fletcher - The New Sun
Val Gielgud - Hot Water
L. P. Hartley - The Island
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Edward Randolph’s Portrait
Washington Irving - The Spectre Bridegroom
Frederick Marryat - The Story Of The Greek Slave
Prosper Merimee - The Blue Room
E. Phillips Oppenheim - The Cafe Of Terror
Edgar Allan Poe - The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar
Hugh Walpole - The Tarn
Samuel Warren - The Resurrectionist
Stories Of Crime And Detection
Anthony Berkeley - The Avenging Chance
Agatha Christie - The Witness For The Prosecution
G. D. H. & M. Cole - A Lesson In Crime
Freeman Wills Croft - Mr. Pembleton’s Commission
Gilbert Frankau - Who Killed Castelvetri
R. Austin Freeman - The Aluminium Dagger
Herbert Jenkins - The Gylston Slander
Maurice LeBlanc - Arsene Lupin In Paris
Baroness Orczy - The Fenchurch Street Mystery
Eden Phillpotts - Peacock House
John Rhode - The Vanishing Dagger
Dorothy L. Sayes - Bitter Almonds
Stories Of The Supernatural
E. F. Benson - The Gardener
Anon - A Spanish Ghost Story
Ambrose Bierce - Staley Fleming’s Hallucination
Catherine Crowe - The Italian’s Story
Daniel Defoe - The Ghost Of Dorothy Dingley
Charles Dickens - To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt
Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach
Sheridan Le Fanu - Madam Crowl’s Ghost
Jeffrey Farnol - Black Coffee
John Galt - The Black Ferry
Theophile Gautier - The Dreamland Bride
Gerald Griffin - The Dilemma Of Phadrig
James Hogg - Mary Burnet
W. W. Jacobs - The Three Sisters
Arthur Machen - The Bowmen
Norman MacLeod - The Doctor’s Ghost
Walter De La Mare - Mr. Kempe
Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber
H. Russell Wakefield - The Frontier Guards
H. G. Wells - The Red Room
Oscar Wilde - The Spinx Without A Secret
Apart from the diligent selections, something I adore about collections like these are the little plot outlines against each story on the contents pages, the seventeen full page illustrations (including an Ernest Wallcousin screamer for Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar) and cute little sketches of each author, the exceptions being A. J. Alan and the prolific anonymous, who are represented by a '?''
To prove that Man has a soul - that was Mr. Kempe’s terrifying problem. And there was danger for the stranger on the cliffside where he lived.
The frightful ordeal of a man at the mercy of an iron-tongued monster in a belfry.
How a respectable young medical student became for one night a body-stealer, and what fears and horrors assailed him during his gruesome adventure in a moonlit graveyard