Mystery Stories ed. Helen Cresswell (Kingfisher US, November 1996, 0-7534-5025-9, $6.95, 224pp, tp, an)
Young-adult anthology of 19 mystery stories.
- 7 · The Green Arches · Joan Aiken · ss Mystery Stories ed. Helen Cresswell, Kingfisher, 1996
- 19 · The Azteck Opal [Robert Leroy Mitchel; John Barnes] · Rodrigues Ottolengui · ss The Idler April 1895
- 36 · Wuthering Heights · Emily Brontë · ex Newby, 1847
- 43 · The Girl Who Kissed the Peach Tree · Eleanor Farjeon · ss The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon, Oxford University Press, 1955; an Italian folktale.
- 52 · The Thing in the Pond · Paul Ernst · ss Astounding Stories June 1934
- 69 · Smart Ice Cream · Paul Jennings · ss Unreal! by Paul Jennings, Penguin Australia, 1985
- 75 · The Pelican · Ann Pilling · ss The Methuen Book of Sinister Stories ed. Jean Russell, Methuen, 1982
- 86 · The Adventures of Johnnie Waverly [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch October 10 1923, as “The Kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly”
- 103 · The Tower · Carl Jung · ss Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung, Pantheon, 1961
- 108 · The Scythe · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales July 1943
- 127 · A Sea Above the Sky · Thomas Wright · ar Ten Thousand Wonderful Things ed. Edmund Fillingham King, Routledge, 1894
- 129 · A Vine on a House · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905
- 135 · The Master · Diana Wynne Jones · ss Hidden Turnings ed. Diana Wynne Jones, Methuen, 1989
- 156 · King Arthur · Sir Thomas Malory · ex from The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table, William Caxton, 1485
- 162 · The Whisperer · Vivien Alcock · ss Ghostly Companions by Vivien Alcock, Methuen, 1984
- 176 · Texts · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss American Short Fiction 1990
- 180 · The Sky Sea · Helen Cresswell · ss Hidden Turnings ed. Diana Wynne Jones, Methuen, 1989
- 192 · The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine January 1924
- 214 · The Bewitched Jacket · Dino Buzzati · ss Restless Nights by Dino Buzzati, North Point Press, 1983; dated 1966.
translated from the Italian (“La giacca stregata”, Corriere della Sera, 17 January 1962).
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