- Publication: The Penguin Book of Horror StoriesPublication Record # 271101
- Editor: J. A. Cuddon
- Date: 1985-00-00
- ISBN: 0-670-81034-7 [978-0-670-81034-5]
- Publisher: Viking UK
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Price: £10.95?£: UK pound
- Pages: 607
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
Anthology Title:
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories • (1984) • anthology by J. A. Cuddon
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- Activity Time • (1981) • short story by Monica Dickens
- An Interview with M. Chakko • (1982) • short story by Vilas Sarang
- Comrade Death • (1938) • novelette by Gerald Kersh
- Couching at the Door • (1933) • novelette by D. K. Broster [as by Dorothy K. Broster]
- Dry September • (1931) • short story by William Faulkner
- Earth to Earth • (1955) • short story by Robert Graves
- In the Penal Colony • (1948) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
- Introduction (The Penguin Book of Horror Stories) • (1984) • essay by J. A. Cuddon
- La Grande Bretêche • non-genre • (1944) • short story by Honoré de Balzac?Honore de Balzac(trans. of La Grande Bretèche 1832)
- Leiningen Versus the Ants • (1938) • novelette by Carl Stephenson (trans. of Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen 1937)
- Lost Hearts • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
- Man from the South • (1948) • short story by Roald Dahl
- Mateo Falcone • non-genre • (1905) • short story by Prosper Mérimée?Prosper Merimee(trans. of Mateo Falcone 1829)
- Mr. Meldrum's Mania • (1931) • novelette by John Metcalfe
- Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
- No Flies on Frank • (1964) • short story by John Lennon
- Sister Coxall's Revenge • (1976) • short fiction by Dawn Muscillo
- Taboo • (1939) • novelette by Geoffrey Household
- The Aquarist • (1981) • short story by J. N. Allan
- The Astrologer's Prediction; or, The Maniac's Fate • (1972) • short story by uncredited (variant of The Fatalist 1824) [as by Anonymous]
- The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
- The Boarded Window • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
- The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
- The Brink of Darkness • (1984) • short story by Yvor Winters
- The Death of Olivier Bécaille • (1984) • novelette by Émile Zola (trans. of La mort d'Olivier Bécaille 1884)
- The Derelict • (1912) • novelette by William Hope Hodgson
- The Dwarf • (1954) • short story by Ray Bradbury
- The Expedition to Hell • (1827) • short story by James Hogg (variant of George Dobson's Expedition to Hell)
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Fourth Man • (1917) • short story by John Russell
- The Man Who Liked Dickens • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Evelyn Waugh
- The Monk of Horror, or The Conclave of Corpses • (1796) • short story by Anonymous
- The Portobello Road • (1956) • novelette by Muriel Spark
- The Reptile • (1926) • short story by Augustus Muir
- The Romance of Certain Old Clothes • (1868) • short story by Henry James
- The Sea-Raiders • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
- The Terrapin • non-genre • (1962) • short story by Patricia Highsmith
- The Thought • (1948) • short story by L. P. Hartley
- The Waxwork • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
- Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch... • (1947) • short story by Dorothy K. Haynes
- Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
- Two Bottles of Relish • non-genre • (1932) • short story by Lord Dunsany
- Uneasy Home-coming • (1935) • short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
- Who Knows? • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
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