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Great Supernatural Stories: 101 Horrifying Tales ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz (Fall River Press, 2017, 978-1-4351-6620-2, $7.98, xii+737pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. xi · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · Accessory Before the Fact · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Westminster Gazette September 2 1911 7 · Aidu · Hero Despard · ss The Black Cat January 1896 12 · The Armless Man · W. G. Litt · ss The Novel Magazine June 1913 21 · As It Was Written · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 28 · The Astrologer · Dick Donovan · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899 41 · The Basilisk · R. Murray Gilchrist · ss The National Observer July 23 1892 47 · Basilissa · John Buchan · nv Blackwood’s Magazine April 1914 61 · The Bell of St. Sepulcre · M. P. Shiel · ss The Red Magazine November 1 1911 70 · The Black Cat · William J. Wintle · ss Ghost Gleams by W. J. Wintle, Heath Cranton, 1921 77 · The Bold Dragoon; or, The Adventure of My Grandfather · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon & Gent., John Murray, 1824, as by Geoffrey Crayon 84 · The Brazen Cross · H. B. Marriott-Watson · ss Diogenes of London by H. B. Marriott Watson, Methuen, 1893 89 · Brent’s Folly · Marjorie Bowen · ss Crimes of Old London by Marjorie Bowen, Odhams, 1919 97 · The Bride · Anna McClure Sholl · ss The Black Cat February 1903 106 · The Bus-Conductor · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1906 114 · By Word of Mouth · Rudyard Kipling · vi The Civil and Military Gazette June 10 1887 118 · The Case of Sir Alister Moeran · Margaret Strickland · ss The Novel Magazine July 1913 130 · The Case of the Witch-Woman · Hilda Morris · ss The Black Cat July 1915 138 · Chunia, Ayah · Alice Perrin · ss East of Suez by A. Perrin, Anthony Treherne, 1901 143 · The Conjurer · Richard Middleton · ss The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton, Unwin, 1912 147 · Dalton’s Inspiration · Stella B. McDonald · ss The Black Cat August 1907 154 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 162 · A Dead Man’s Bargain · Clive Pemberton · ss The Weird o’ It by Clive Pemberton, Henry Drane, 1906 169 · Death and the Woman · Gertrude Atherton · ss Vanity Fair (UK) 1892 174 · The Demons of the Sea · William Hope Hodgson · ss Sea Stories Magazine October 5 1923 183 · The Desert Drum · Robert S. Hichens · ss The Booklovers Magazine December 1904 193 · The Doll’s Ghost · F. Marion Crawford · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1896 204 · “Doubles” and Quits · Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss Noughts and Crosses by Q, Cassell & Co., 1891, as by Q 208 · The Downs · Amyas Northcote · ss In Ghostly Company by Amyas Northcote, The Bodley Head, 1921 214 · The Eleventh of March · Amelia B. Edwards · ss A Welcome, Emily Faithfull, 1863 221 · The Face in the Glass · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss The Mistletoe Bough 1880 232 · Force Majeure · J. D. Beresford · ss Nineteen Impressions by J. D. Beresford, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918 237 · The Garde Chasse · Catherine Crowe · ex from “Second Evening”, Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858 241 · The Ghost and the Bone-Setter [The Purcell Papers] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine January 1838, uncredited. 249 · The Ghost of Mohammed Din · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Overland Monthly November 1910 253 · The Ghost Ship · C. A. Borden · ss The Black Cat November 1908 265 · The Giant · Walter de la Mare · ss The Pall Mall Magazine June 1901, as by Walter Ramal 270 · The Gray Cat · A. C. Benson · ss The Hill of Trouble by A. C. Benson, Isbister, 1903 283 · The Great Power · Henry Oyen · ss The Black Cat July 1906 288 · The Green Robe · R. H. Benson · ss The Light Invisible by R. H. Benson, Isbister, 1903 292 · The Haunted Cap · George W. Kelley · ss The Black Cat February 1900 302 · How It Happened · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine September 1913 305 · In the Court of the Dragon · Robert W. Chambers · ss The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, F. Tennyson Neely, 1895 313 · The Invisible Eye · Erckmann-Chatrian; translated by Charles S. Cheltnam · nv Temple Bar December 1870 translated from the French (“L’œil invisible ou L’auberge des trois pendus”, 1857). 328 · The Island · Maurice Baring · ss Orpheus in Mayfair by Maurice Baring, Mills & Boon, 1909 333 · The Island · Alice Brown · ss The Flying Teuton and Other Stories by Alice Brown, Macmillan, 1918 346 · Jerry Bundler · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Windsor Magazine December 1897 353 · Jikininki · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 357 · Jubal, the Ringer · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Knickerbocker September 1858 362 · Jumbee · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales September 1926 371 · Lady Farquhar’s Old Lady · Mrs. Molesworth · ss Tinsley’s Magazine December 1873 383 · The Lady Tantivy · Rosa Mulholland · ss Temple Bar January 1898 392 · The Last Ascent · E. R. Punshon · ss The Novel Magazine February 1914 398 · The Last Man’s Club · Robert M. Clutch · ss The Black Cat March 1905 401 · The Man from Honolulu · Lawrence William Pedrose · ss The Black Cat April 1915 409 · The Man Who Did Things Twice · Don Mark Lemon · ss The Black Cat June 1905 414 · The Man with the Nose · Rhoda Broughton · ss Temple Bar October 1872 429 · The Marble Hands · Bernard Capes · ss The Fabulists by Bernard Capes, Mills & Boon, 1915 432 · 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” 437 · The Mezzotint · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904 447 · Midnight House · William Fryer Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, Dent, 1910 453 · The Monstrance · Arthur Machen · ss The Angels of Mons by Arthur Machen, Simpkin, Marshall, 1915 457 · Mrs. Ponsonby’s Dream · B. M. Croker · ss Jason and Other Stories by B. M. Croker, Chatto & Windus, 1899 461 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911 466 · My Enemy and Myself · Vincent O’Sullivan · ss A Book of Bargains by Vincent O'Sullivan, Leonard Smithers, 1896 470 · The 9:30 Up-Train · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss (r) 480 · No. 17 · E. Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine June 1910, as by E. Bland 487 · On the Turn of a Coin · Cleveland Moffett · ss The Black Cat April 1900 493 · Only a Dream · H. Rider Haggard · ss Harry Furniss’s Christmas Annual 1905, as “A Wedding Gift” 499 · The Other Sense · J. S. Fletcher · ss The Sketch October 13 1909 509 · Over the Wires · Mrs. H. D. Everett · ss The Death-Mask and Other Ghosts by H. D. Everett, Philip Allan, 1920 517 · A Penny Walk · John Colquhoun · ss The Black Cat February 1907 528 · Perdita · Hildegarde Hawthorne · vi Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1897 533 · The Presence by the Fire · H. G. Wells · ss The Penny Illustrated Paper August 14 1897 538 · The Rocker · Oliver Onions · ss Widdershins by Oliver Onions, Martin Secker, 1911 548 · The Rockery · E. G. Swain · ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales by E. G. Swain, W. Heffer & Sons, 1912 557 · The Room of Fear [Shiela Crerar] · Ella Scrymsour · ss The Blue Magazine #13, July 1920 569 · The Seaweed Room · Clarice Irene Clinghan · ss The Black Cat June 1896 574 · Self-Haunted · E. E. Kellett · ss A Corner in Sleep and Other Impossibilities by E. E. Kellett, Jarrold & Sons, 1900 582 · Share and Share Alike · Robert Barr · ss Black & White #24, July 18 1891 586 · The Skeleton · Jerome K. Jerome · ss Novel Notes by Jerome K. Jerome, Leadenhall Press, 1893 592 · The Spirit of the Dance · Julian Hawthorne · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine April 1907 602 · The Story of an Obstinate Corpse · Elia W. Peattie · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia W. Peattie, Macmillan US, 1898 606 · A Sworn Statement · Emma Dawson · ss The Wasp Christmas 1881 615 · The Terrible Old Man · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Tryout July 1921 618 · The Terror by Night · Lewis Lister · ss The Novel Magazine July 1915 628 · That Haunting Thing · Achmed Abdullah · ss All-Story Weekly December 8 1917 636 · The Third Doctor · Claude N. Settles · ss The Black Cat March 1915 643 · Thirteen at Table · Lord Dunsany · ss Tamworth Herald January 4 1913 650 · Thrawn Janet · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Cornhill Magazine October 1881, as by R. L. S. 659 · “To Let” · Alice Turner Curtis · ss The Black Cat March 1896 662 · Tom Toothacre’s Ghost Story · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories (var. 1) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Houghton Mifflin, 1881 668 · The Tower · Barry Pain · ss Here and Hereafter by Barry Pain, Methuen, 1911 675 · The Tragedy at the “Loup Noir” · Gladys Stern · ss The Novel Magazine May 1913 683 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited. 693 · The Vampire Maid · Hume Nisbet · ss Stories Weird and Wonderful by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White, 1900 699 · The Vengeance of a Tree · Eleanor F. Lewis · ss Twenty-Five Ghost Stories ed. W. Bob Holland, J.S. Ogilvie, 1904, uncredited. 703 · Was It a Dream? · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, St. Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La morte”, Gil Blas, May 31, 1887). 708 · What the Moon Brings [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · pp The National Amateur May 1923 710 · The White Villa · Ralph Adams Cram · nv Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, Stone & Kimball, 1895 721 · The White Witch of the River · J. E. Muddock · ss Stories Weird and Wonderful by J. E. Muddock, Chatto & Windus, 1889 729 · White Zombie · Vivian Meik · ss Devils’ Drums by Vivian Meik, Philip Allan, 1933

Great Thrillers: 101 Suspenseful Tales ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz (Fall River Press, July 24, 2017, 978-1-4351-6622-6, $7.98, xii+704pp, hc, an)     Details taken from Tabl of Contents. xi · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · The Alligator Test · Howard Dwight Smiley · ss The Black Cat March 1915 9 · The American’s Tale · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss London Society Christmas 1880, uncredited. 15 · Andrew Goes Driving · Will H. Greenfield · ss The Black Cat July 1915 20 · The Arras of God · Vincent Starrett · ss The Black Cat December 1918 31 · The Art of Vengeance · Frederick Ferdinand Moore · ss The Black Cat December 1908 35 · At Briny Ranch · Stephen Chalmers · ss The Black Cat November 1905 42 · At the Bottom of the Sea · Gordon Artherton · ss The Black Cat May 1903 46 · At the Third Hour · Crete Warren · ss The Black Cat January 1906 49 · Attar of Roses · Thomas Fay Walsh · ss The Black Cat June 1915 56 · The Barber of the Alpena · J. Harwood · ss The Black Cat September 1896 63 · The Beetle of the Mandarin · Vera L. Connolly · ss The Black Cat August 1907 71 · The Beloved Plymouth Rocks · John Louis Berry · ss The Black Cat September 1903 78 · Beyond the Foot of the Bed · J. H. Landis · ss The Black Cat December 1914 86 · “Blow Up with the Brig!” · Wilkie Collins · ss Miss or Mrs.? and Other Stories in Outline by Wilkie Collins, Richard Bentley and Son, 1873 revised from “The Ghost in the Cupboard Room” (All the Year Round, Christmas 1859). 97 · A Business Proposition · W. Crawford Sherlock · ss The Black Cat July 1907 100 · Calloway’s Code · O. Henry · ss Munsey’s Magazine September 1906 107 · The Chance · Linda Dows · ss The Black Cat December 1905 110 · The Circle · Harvey Fergusson · ss The Black Cat April 1915 113 · The Cone · H. G. Wells · ss Unicorn September 18 1895 123 · Crooked Cards · Ross Ellis · ss The Black Cat October 1914 132 · The Cross of the White God · Harold de Polo · ss The Black Cat October 1914 140 · The Cub · Gordon Johnstone · ss The Black Cat January 1915 149 · The Dancing Partner · Jerome K. Jerome · ex from Novel Notes, Leadenhall Press, 1893 155 · A Day in the Dark · Berton Braley · ss The Black Cat July 1915 160 · The Death Mask · Ladd Plumley · ss The Black Cat September 1917 167 · The Death of Kalu’s Hand · Cyril Etheridge · ss The Black Cat August 1907 173 · The Dim Gray Streak · R. Ray Baker · ss The Black Cat November 1918 179 · The Disappearance of Brown · John Trask · ss The Black Cat March 1905 186 · The Dragon’s Fang · J. Clarkson Miller · ss The Black Cat January 1909 193 · A Dream of Red Hands · Bram Stoker · ss The Sketch July 11 1894 202 · The Dungeon of Deception · George Dyre Eldridge · ss The Black Cat January 1905 209 · The 89’s Hoodoo · L. S. Chester · ss The Black Cat July 1915 217 · The Eyes of the Panther · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner October 17 1897 226 · The Face in the Ice · Frederic Simpich · ss The Black Cat February 1915 233 · The Faithful Amulet · W. C. Morrow · ss The Ape, the Idiot and Other People by W. C. Morrow, Lippincott, 1897 241 · The Fourth Finger · L. Prince · ss The Black Cat July 1909 248 · The Gold Axe · Gaston Leroux; translated by Hannaford Bennett · ss The Burgled Heart by Gaston Leroux, tr. Hannaford Bennett, John Long, 1925 translated from the French (“La hache d’or”, Le cœur cambriolé, Pierre Lafitte & Cie, 1922). 259 · The Golden-Mottled Spiders · Mariner J. Kent · ss The Black Cat February 1903 262 · The Goth · Roy Vickers · ss The Novel Magazine November 1913 271 · The Grave by the Handpost · Thomas Hardy · ss St. James’ Budget December 1897 281 · The Green Light · Barry Pain · ss Phil May’s Annual #7, Winter 1897 286 · His Brother’s Keeper · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Magazine December 1922 296 · The Horror-Horn · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine September 1922 307 · The Hostelry · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r) translated from the French. 319 · The Humming Bats · Wilder Anthony · ss The Black Cat October 1914 329 · The Inch That Counted · Lisetta Megerle · ss The Black Cat September 1909 332 · In the Service of the Czar · Walter Laurence Hackett · ss The Black Cat May 1899 336 · In re State vs. Forbes · Warren Earle · ss The Black Cat July 1906 348 · The Interlopers · Saki · ss The Bystander January 17 1912 353 · Jack in the Box · Willard E. Hawkins · ss The Black Cat June 1915 359 · The Kiss · M. E. Royce · ss The Novel Magazine September 1916 365 · “Knowest Thou That Land?” · Frank Lillie Pollock & Will S. McGann · ss The Black Cat November 1904 369 · The Lace Designers · Don Mark Lemon · vi The Black Cat May 1907 372 · The Leper · Edward J. Wolfsohn · ss The Black Cat September 1915 380 · The Leopard Man’s Story · Jack London · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly August 1903 384 · The Little Man in Black · Robert McBlair · ss The Black Cat February 1915 391 · The Lost Button · James Francis Dwyer · ss The Black Cat November 1908 395 · The Man Behind the Mask · H. P. Holt · ss The Black Cat August 1915 405 · The Man in the Bell · William Maginn · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine November 1821, uncredited. 410 · The Man the Fly Lit On · Gordon H. Cilley · ss The Black Cat September 1907 415 · The Man Who Shunned the Light · Arthur Leeds · ss The Black Cat February 1915 424 · Manacled · Stephen Crane · vi The Argosy (UK) August 1900 427 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 441 · The Murder Hole · Catherine Sinclair · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1829, uncredited. 447 · The New Shikari · Cyril Etheridge · ss The Black Cat July 1907 455 · The Nick of Time · E. Harold Cummings · vi The Black Cat March 1915 458 · A Night in the Catacombs · Daniel Keyte Sandford · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine October 1818, as by E. 465 · Not According to the Code · Robert Barr · ss Black & White June 1 1895 472 · Notre Dame des Eaux · Ralph Adams Cram · ss Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, Stone & Kimball, 1895 479 · The Oasis in the Snow · John Buchan · ss Grey Weather by John Buchan, John Lane, 1899 485 · The One Phobia · Harris Merton Lyon · ss The Black Cat January 1909 490 · Out of the Storm · William Hope Hodgson · ss Putnam’s Magazine February 1909 494 · The Passing of Jerry Denton · Leslie G. Shannon · ss The Black Cat December 1914 500 · Powers of the Air · J. D. Beresford · ss Seven Arts October 1917 505 · Range Light Number Thirteen · Nathaniel Dickinson · ss The Black Cat December 1904 517 · The Rattler · J. Harold Herrmann · ss The Black Cat September 1915 523 · Requiescat in Pace · Elliott McEldowney · ss The Black Cat September 1915 533 · The Rivalry of the Grave · Robert Adger Bowen · ss The Black Cat June 1903 546 · The Sapphire Chain · Caroline Ticknor · ss The Black Cat October 1906 555 · Scarlet Poppies · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 559 · The Search [DeLancey and T.B.] · Harry Stephen Keeler · ss The Black Cat March 1915 566 · The Shadow on the Wall · Georgia Roberts Durston · vi The Black Cat January 1915 570 · Should Chance Permit · P. C. Duorts · vi The Black Cat January 1903 573 · The Siddons Dagger · E. O. Weeks · ss The Black Cat August 1907 584 · The Skeletons of Paradise · Hapsburg Liebe · ss The Black Cat November 1914 590 · The Story Mr. Popkiss Told · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Westminster Gazette December 24 1908 594 · The Sword of Flame · Marshal South · ss The Black Cat January 1915 601 · The 10:50 Express · Maurice Level; translated by Alys Eyre Macklin · ss Hearst’s Magazine June 1920 translated from the French (“L’Epouvante”, Le Journal, February 1, 1905). 605 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 610 · Thistledown · Joseph MacKie · ss The Black Cat September 1915 616 · Three of the Third · Frederick Ferdinand Moore · ss The Black Cat October 1908 621 · The Tomtom Clue · Cecil Morgan & Scudamore Jarvis · ss The Novel Magazine December 1914 627 · The Unknown Quantity · E. R. Punshon · ss The Novel Magazine June 1914 634 · The Unmaking of Mr. Lynch · C. C. Newkirk · ss The Black Cat July 1900 636 · The Unturned Trump · H. D. Umbstaetter · ss The Black Cat October 1895, as by Barnes MacGreggor 643 · Unwinding · William Fryer Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, Dent, 1910 649 · What the Moon Saw · Isabelle Meredith · ss The Black Cat July 1896 652 · When the Red Snow Falls · Chart Pitt · ss The Black Cat March 1919 666 · When White Turned Black · Frank A. Hays · ss The Black Cat January 1905 672 · Where the Lines Meet · Frank X. Finnegan · ss The Black Cat October 1904 680 · With What Measure · Maude Heath · ss The Black Cat January 1907