Terribly Strange Tales ed. Elizabeth Sechrist & Janette Woolsey (Macrae Smith, November 1967, 253pp, hc, an)
22 stories, most well known, but one or two rarities. Illustrated by H. Tom Hall.
- 13 · Laura · Saki · ss The Morning Post June 25 1912, as by H. H. Munro
- 19 · La Grande Bretèche · Honoré de Balzac; translated by Clara Bell · ss Grande Bretèche and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac, tr. Clara Bell, J.M. Dent, 1896
translated from the French (“La Grande Bretèche”, Contes Brun, 1831).
- 41 · The Night the Ghost Got In · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker August 12 1933
- 47 · The Furnished Room · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World August 14 1904
- 55 · The King of the Cats · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Harper’s Bazar February 1929
- 73 · The Man and the Snake · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 29 1890
- 79 · The Adventure of Second Lieutenant Bubnov · Ivan Turgenev; translated by J. A. Bimstone · ss The Evening Standard March 2 1936
translated from the Russian (1842).
- 89 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman”
- 105 · Coroner’s Inquest · Marc Connelly · vi Collier’s February 8 1930
- 113 · The Lady, or the Tiger? · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Magazine November 1882
- 121 · Clay-Shuttered Doors · Helen R. Hull · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1926
- 143 · The Legend of Micah Rood · Alton H. Blackington · ss Yankee Yarns by Alton H. Blackington, Dodd, Mead, 1954
- 151 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911
- 157 · The Dream · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan May 1924
- 163 · The Specter · Guy de Maupassant · ss Allouma and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant, Holland Pub. Co., 1895
translated from the French (“Apparition”, Le Gaulois, April 4, 1883).
- 171 · The Very Foreign Ambassadors · Walter M. Bastian, Jr. · ss 1960
- 177 · A Terribly Strange Bed · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words #109, April 24 1852, uncredited.
- 197 · The Black Dog · Stephen Crane · ss New-York Tribune July 24 1892
- 203 · The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review February 23 1887 (+1)
- 235 · The Sassage Machine · Charles Dickens · ex from Pickwick Papers, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837
- 239 · Fear · Stephen French Whitman · ss Collier’s July 31 1926
- 243 · A Curious Dream · Mark Twain · ss The Century Magazine November 1881, as “A Curious Experiment”
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