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Tales of Dread ed. Charles Birkin, uncredited (Philip Allan, 1936, 2/6d, 248pp, hc, oa) 7 · Bathysphere Number 7 · Francis H. Sibson · ss Pearson’s Magazine June 1935 33 · Angela · Charles Lloyd · ss 53 · The Green Taxi · Anne Edgar · ss 75 · The Secret of the Graves · Oswell Blakeston · nv 135 · The Silver Lady · Sidney Denham · ss 151 · The Dead Watch · David Lord · ss 175 · Dispossessed · Harold Markham · nv 201 · The Tiger · Francis Bruguiere · ss 223 · The False Trail · Kenneth Ingram · ss

Tales of Fear ed. Charles Birkin, uncredited (Philip Allan, 1935, 2/6d, 243pp, hc, oa) 11 · The Road · Vera A. Gadd · ss 31 · Bitten by a Spider · Patrick Clark · ss 45 · The Silent Inn · Geoffrey Wyndham Lewis · ss 65 · Many Cats and One Tale · W. A. C. Chadwick · ss 85 · The Horror in the Pond · A. D. Avison · nv 117 · Adventure Without Asking · Oswell Blakeston · ss 141 · The Thing from the Pit · Arthur Stafford Aylmer · ss 159 · Lone Cottage · Tilly Scard · ss 177 · The Figure at the Window · Ada Helen · ss 195 · A Journey by Train · Henry L. Lawrence · ss 209 · Hillmount · Vera A. Gadd · ss 225 · The Snake · Chrystabel Earle · ss

Tales of Horror and Mystery (Dean, October 1993, 0-603-55222-6, £2.99, 378pp, hc, an)     Omnibus volume of Horror Stories (1987) and Mystery Stories (1981), issued as a bargain book. 8 · The Landlady · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker November 28 1959 18 · The Riddle · Walter de la Mare · ss The Monthly Review February 1903 23 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 34 · Through the Door · Ruth Ainsworth · ss The Phantom Roundabout by Ruth Ainsworth, Andre Deutsch, 1977 47 · Man-Size in Marble · Edith Nesbit · nv Home Chimes December 1887 60 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 66 · A Kind of Swan Song · Helen Cresswell · ss Shades of Dark ed. Aidan Chambers, Patrick Hardy, 1984 76 · The Clock Tower Ghost · Gene Kemp · ex Faber and Faber, 1981 85 · The Gorge of the Churels · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1951 95 · The Haunted Trailer · Robert Arthur · nv Weird Tales January 1942, as “Death Thumbs a Ride” 113 · The Stranger · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine February 1909 119 · Bad Company · Walter de la Mare · ss A Beginning and Other Stories by Walter de la Mare, Faber and Faber, 1955 127 · The Yellow Cat · Michael Joseph · ss Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine June 1924 137 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Pocket Magazine June 1901 149 · Laura · Saki · ss The Morning Post June 25 1912, as by H. H. Munro 155 · The Swan Child · Joan Aiken · ss A Whisper in the Night by Joan Aiken, Gollancz, 1982 167 · The Brown Hand · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine May 1899, as “The Story of the Brown Hand” 182 · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · nv The Idler March 1896 192 · The Blades · Joan Aiken · ss Mystery Stories, Hamlyn, 1981 206 · Lost Hearts · M. R. James · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1895 217 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 230 · The Picture of Dorian Gray [Dorian Gray] · Oscar Wilde · ex Ward, Lock & Co., 1891 247 · The Silver Mirror · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine August 1908 256 · The Stolen Cigar-Case · Bret Harte · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 24 1900 266 · The Mysterious Mansion · Honoré de Balzac · ss Shorter Stories from Balzac by Honoré de Balzac, Walter Scott, 1890, as “An Accursed House” translated from the French (“La Grande Bretèche”, Contes Brun, 1831). 277 · Sweets from a Stranger · Nicholas Fisk · ss Horror Stories and Mystery Stories by Nicholas Fisk, 1978 287 · The Hitch-Hiker · Roald Dahl · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1977 299 · The Dream Woman · Wilkie Collins · nv Temple Bar November 1874 (+1) revised from “Brother Morgan’s Story of the Dream-Woman” (The Queen of Hearts, Hurst and Blackett, 1859), itself revised from “The Ostler” (Household Words, Christmas 1855). 323 · The Masque of the Red Death · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May 1842, as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy” 329 · The Sailor-Boy’s Tale · Karen Blixen · ss Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942, as by Isak Dinesen 341 · The Horla · Guy de Maupassant · nv The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Le Horla”, Gil Blas, October 26, 1886). 365 · The Mummy’s Foot · Théophile Gautier; translated by Lafcadio Hearn · ss New Orleans Item June 16 1878 (+1) translated from the French (“Le Pied de Momie”, Musée de Familles, September 1840).

Tales of Imagination and Suspense (Silver Burdett, 1982, 0-382-09995-8, 273pp, pb, an) 2 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 9 · A Terribly Strange Bed · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words #109, April 24 1852, uncredited. 32 · The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · nv The Royal Magazine July 1901 55 · Silver Blaze [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1892, as “The Adventure of Silver Blaze” 90 · The Wind in the Rosebush · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · nv Everybody’s Magazine February 1902, as by Mary E. Wilkins 113 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 118 · Ghosts on the Jersey Coast · Stephen Crane · ss (r) 124 · The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly June 27 1891 137 · The Ugly Duckling · Hans Christian Andersen · ss (r) translated from the Danish (“Den grimme ælling”, Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Første Samling, C.A. Reitzel, 1843). 150 · The Dancing Doll · E. T. A. Hoffmann · ex from “The Sandman” (r) translated from the German (“Der Sandmann”, Nachtstücke Teil 1, 1816). 160 · A Mad Tea Party [Alice] · Lewis Carroll · ex from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan, 1865 169 · The King of the Golden River · John Ruskin · nv Smith, Elder, 1841 202 · The Mortal Immortal · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1834, 1833 220 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s” 233 · From the Earth to the Moon · Jules Verne · ex (r); abridged from From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon. translated from the French (De la Terre à la Lune, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, 1865). 263 · The Strange Orchid · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 2 1894, as “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid”

Tales of Love and Fury (Avon Books, 1953, A549, 25¢, 158pp, pb, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 7 · Midsummer Passions: a Variance · Irving Shulman · ss 15 · The Girls of Tongatabu · John Langdon · ss Story #110, November/December 1944 23 · Midsummer · Nancy Hale · ss The New Yorker September 8 1934 35 · Boy in the Summer Sun · Mark Schorer · ss Story #55, February 1937 49 · The Strange Thing · Emily Hahn · ss Story July 1935 63 · Testimonial · Stanley Olmsted · ss Story #71, June 1938 79 · Trouble in 1949 · John O’Hara · ss Harper’s Bazaar November 1938 89 · Summer Thunder · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Smart Set September 1920 105 · Sunday Revelation · Chandler Brossard · ss 112 · Satan’s Best Girl · Mark Van Doren · ss 1950 124 · My Side of the Matter · Truman Capote · ss Story #113, May/June 1945 137 · The Girls in Their Summer Dresses · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker February 4 1939 144 · The Face on the Barroom Floor, or Too Much Salt on the Pretzels · Nelson Algren · ss The American Mercury January 1947

Tales of Murder and Mystery (Everybody’s Books, 194?, 1/-, 50pp, pb, an) 3 · The Prison of Sunset · Sidney Denham · ss (r) 10 · The Country House Fire · J. D. Kerruish · ss (r) 25 · The Last Chapter · Sidney Denham · ss (r) 33 · Was It Murder? · Michael Hervey · ss (r) 36 · The Wrong Ticket · Sidney Denham · ss (r) 40 · Cast Iron Alibi · Sidney Denham · ss (r) 43 · The Brain Machine · Arthur Armstrong · ss (r)

Tales of Mystery (Gulliver Books, 1945, 1/-, 48pp, pb, an) 3 · The Broken Looking-Glass · Henry Harland · ss The Yellow Book April 1894 10 · Ben Blower’s Story · C. F. Hoffman · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine August 1842 18 · Edward Randolph’s Portrait · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss United States Magazine and Democratic Review July 1838, as by The Author of “Twice-Told Tales” 31 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman”

Tales of Mystery and Horror (World Society Editions, 1966, 210pp, pb, an)     Mystery and horror stories by Doyle, Kipling and Poe. · The Boscombe Valley Mystery [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine October 1891 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review December 1845 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 · The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885 · The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885 · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 · The Oval Portrait · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1842, as “Life in Death”

Tales of Mystery and Surprise (Everybody’s Books, 194?, 6d, 32pp, pb, an) 1 · Tongues of Death · Richard Westlake · ss (r) 5 · Confession by Jury · Harold Kelly · ss (r) 10 · The Doctor’s Fingerprints · Arthur Armstrong · ss (r) 15 · What Flynn Saw · Sidney Denham · ss (r) 20 · The Man Who Defied Gravity · Kent Barnett · ss (r) 26 · The Disappearance of Mr. Heavyside · Sidney Denham · ss (r)

Tales of Other Days ed. John Y. Akerman, uncredited (Effingham Wilson, 1830, 268pp, hc, an)     Anthology (in 2 vols) of historical adventures mostly with mystical, macabre or supernatural incidents. Details taken from later omnibus volume (London: Edwards & Bushell, 1857), which incorporated the novel The Gentleman in Black. 3 · The Gentleman in Black · John Y. Akerman ,[?], uncredited · n. 1830 also attributed to James Dalton. 119 · The Magic Phial; or, an Evening at Delft · [uncredited] · ss (r) 123 · A Tale of the Civil Wars · [uncredited] · ss (r) 132 · Friar Rush: a Tale of Faerie · [uncredited] · ss (r) 139 · Ghysbrecht, the Free-lance · [uncredited] · ss (r) 153 · The Three Suitors · [uncredited] · ss (r) 164 · The Fifth of November: a Legend of Palace Yard · [uncredited] · ss (r) 182 · A Tale of the Low Countries · [uncredited] · ss (r) 188 · Trial by Battle · [uncredited] · ss (r) 201 · The Castle of Stauffenberg · [uncredited] · ss (r) 207 · The Brothers: a Tale of London Bridge · [uncredited] · ss (r) 217 · Roger Clevelly: a Devonshire Legend · [uncredited] · ss (r) 230 · Haviland Hall · [uncredited] · ss (r) 247 · A Tour to the North · [uncredited] · ss (r) 257 · The Ring and the Mendicant · [uncredited] · ss 1825 275 · A Journey of Azibah: an Eastern Tale · [uncredited] · ss (r) 283 · The Death’s Head · Friedrich Schulze, uncredited · nv (r); different rendition of the story from Utterson’s Tales of the Dead. 297 · Waldeck: a Tale from the German · [uncredited] · ss (r) 305 · The Awkward Man · [uncredited] · ss (r) 316 · Who Can It Be? · [uncredited] · ss (r) 325 · The Robber Spatolino · [uncredited] · nv (r) 349 · Trials of Temper · [uncredited] · ss (r) 362 · The Prediction: a Tale of New-year’s Eve · [uncredited] · ss (r) 373 · An Adventure in 1780 · [uncredited] · ss (r) 381 · The Magician’s Visitor · [uncredited] · ss The Literary Remains of Henry Neele by Henry Neele, 1828, as by Henry Neele 386 · A Norwegian Sketch · [uncredited] · ss (r)

Tales of Terror (Houghton Mifflin, 1989, 0-3954-5995-8, 62pp, tp, an)     Two suspense plays intended for schools complete with discussion prompts. 5 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs; adapted by Louis Napoleon Parker · pl Samuel French, 1910 33 · Discussion · [uncredited] · ms (r) 37 · The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street · Rod Serling · pl Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine May 1981 broadcast on March 4, 1960. 57 · Discussion · [uncredited] · ms (r) 58 · Roundtable Discussion · [uncredited] · ms (r) 59 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Tales of Terror and Surprise (The Mitre Press, November 1942, 127pp, pb, an) 3 · “O Death…” · Edward Martell · ss 8 · Long-Pig · Morton Spencer · ss This Week (UK) August 4 1939 17 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843 27 · Getting Away with It · Edward Martell · ss 33 · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. 56 · A Tale of Terror · Thomas Hood · vi The London Magazine 1821 59 · A Terribly Strange Bed · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words #109, April 24 1852, uncredited. 75 · The Pit and the Pendulum · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present, MDCCCXLIII, Carey & Hart, 1842 90 · The Old Man Passes · Edward Martell · ss This Week (UK) August 11 1939 98 · The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843 115 · What Now? · Richard Marr · ss 119 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review December 1845

Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Gulliver Books, 1945, 1/-, pb, an)     This volume is listed as one of the titles in the series Famous Stories of All Time published by Gulliver Books at the end of the War. It is possible that none of these were published. Other titles include Tales of Adventure, Tales of Mystery, Ghost Stories, The Dream and Other Tales of Romance and The Spider’s Eye and Other Stories.

Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Bracken Books, October 1994, 1-85891-137-0, £5.99, 611pp, hc, an)     Reprint (Random House 1944 as Great Tales of Terror & the Supernatural by Herbert A. Wise & Phyllis Fraser) anthology of 38 classic horror stories (removing the Introductions and 14 stories from the original), with an introduction by Michael Moorcock. · Introduction · Michael Moorcock · in 1 · La Grande Bretèche · Honoré de Balzac · ss Shorter Stories from Balzac by Honoré de Balzac, Walter Scott, 1890, as “An Accursed House” translated from the French (“La Grande Bretèche”, Contes Brun, 1831). 17 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843 25 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review December 1845 33 · A Terribly Strange Bed · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words #109, April 24 1852, uncredited. 43 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891 47 · The Three Strangers · Thomas Hardy · nv Longman’s Magazine March 1883 65 · The Interruption · W. W. Jacobs · ss Liberty July 4 1925 75 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 79 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931 82 · Silent Snow, Secret Snow · Conrad Aiken · nv The Virginia Quarterly Review October 1932 97 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 111 · Back for Christmas · John Collier · ss The New Yorker October 7 1939 116 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited.; original version. 147 · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine” 171 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited.; given as by Charles Collins & Charles Dickens. 180 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited. 207 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. 218 · Sir Edmund Orme · Henry James · nv Black & White November 25 1891 241 · The Horla · Guy de Maupassant · nv The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Le Horla”, Gil Blas, October 26, 1886). 261 · Was It a Dream? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La morte”, Gil Blas, May 31, 1887). 265 · The Screaming Skull · F. Marion Crawford · nv Collier’s July 11 1908 (+1) 289 · The Furnished Room · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World August 14 1904 295 · Casting the Runes · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Arnold, 1911 312 · “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 328 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910 352 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 · The Great God Pan · Arthur Machen · na The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1894 a portion appeared earlier in The Whirlwind, Dec 13, 1890. 404 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea · Robert Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine October 1897, as “The Man Who Was Beloved” 440 · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap by Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray” 450 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 468 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925 480 · Caterpillars · E. F. Benson · ss The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills & Boon, 1912 487 · Mrs. Amworth · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine June 1922 499 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 502 · The Beckoning Fair One · Oliver Onions · na Widdershins by Oliver Onions, Secker, 1911 554 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Magazine April 1912 562 · The Rats in the Walls · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales March 1924 578 · The Dunwich Horror [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales April 1929