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Summary edit
The crawling shudder of fear -- the sudden awareness of terror -- a thousand years lived in one instant of impending doom.
... A blind man etches his revenge forever on the face of his mistress.
... The lonely drive over a deserted road -- and beside her a murderer -- ready to strike...
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Quotes edit
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“I am very different from the man you knew in the old days -- I horrify you now, don't I? You shrink from me? ...”
First Sentence edit
I suppose it is profitless, at this late date in the history of civilization, to ask why the human animal likes so much to be scared-on-paper, why he derives such a high degree of entertainment from reading about events which would literally frighten him out of his wits if he were actually confronted with them.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction, by Groff Conklin
The Last Kiss, by Maurice Level
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
The Upturned Face, by Stephen Crane
The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey, by Dorothy Sayers
The Horror Horn, by E. F. Benson
Night Drive, by Will F. Jenkins
In the Vault, by H. P. Lovecraft
The Diary of a Madman, by Guy de Maupassant
The Tool, by William Fryer Harvey
Bianca's Hands, by Theodore Sturgeon
The Cross of Carl, by Walter Owen
Hathor's Pets, by Margaret St. Clair
A Terribly Strange Bed, by Wilkie Collins
The Well, by W. W. Jacobs
Revenge, by Samuel Blas
The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allan Poe
Macklin's Little Friend, by Howard Wandrei
The Easter Egg, by H. H. Munro (Saki)
Problem in Murder, by H. L. Gold
The Moth, by H. G. Wells
A Resumed Identity, by Ambrose Bierce
Bubbles, by Wilbur Daniel Steele
Authors & Contributors edit
- Groff Conklin (Editor)
Other Contributors:
- Groff Conklin (Introduction)
- Maurice Level (Contributor) - The Last Kiss (short story)
- Ray Bradbury (Contributor) - The Illustrated Man (short story)
- Stephen Crane (Contributor) - The Upturned Face (short story)
- Dorothy L. Sayers (Contributor) - The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey (short story)
- E. F. Benson (Contributor) - The Horror Horn (short story)
- Will F. Jenkins (Contributor) - Night Drive (short story)
- H. P. Lovecraft (Contributor) - In the Vault (short story)
- Guy de Maupassant (Contributor) - The Diary of a Madman (short story)
- William Fryer Harvey (Contributor) - The Tool (short story)
- Theodore Sturgeon (Contributor) - Bianca's Hands (short story)
- Walter Owen (Contributor) - The Cross of Carl (short story)
- Margaret St. Clair (Contributor) - Hathor's Pets (short story)
- Wilkie Collins (Contributor) - A Terribly Strange Bed (short story)
- W. W. Jacobs (Contributor) - The Well (short story)
- Samuel Blas (Contributor) - Revenge (short story)
- Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor) - The Pit and the Pendulum (short story)
- Howard Wandrei (Contributor) - Macklin's Little Friend (short story)
- Saki (Contributor) - The Easter Egg (short story)
- H. L. Gold (Contributor) - Problem in Murder (short story)
- H. G. Wells (Contributor) - The Moth (short story)
- Ambrose Bierce (Contributor) - A Resumed Identity (short story)
- Wilbur Daniel Steele (Contributor) - Bubbles (short story)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 1951
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 364
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 1951
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 364
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