• Publication: Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and HorrorPublication Record # 304429
• Editor: Dorothy L. Sayers
• Date: 1928-09-00
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Price:
  8/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 1229
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: • First impression • The listing for this anthology is intentionally incomplete. Works which are not speculative fiction, or are probably not, have been omitted. • Later [1939, 1947] split into two parts, the first of which was all non-SF; the contents below are basically Part II • Price from Tuck, who has the year as 1929
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 1444
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 781969273
  • Reginald-1: 12734

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 621 • The Open Door • (1881) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
• 660 • The Story of the Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 677 • The Trial for Murder • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
• 687 • Martin's Close • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• 705 • Phantas • (1910) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 719 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• 761 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 764 • The Novel of the Black Seal • (1895) • novelette by Arthur Machen (variant of Novel of the Black Seal)
• 800 • Tchériapin • (1920) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• 816 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 826 • The Hair • (1928) • short story by A. J. Alan
• 834 • Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 847 • Moxon's Master • (1899) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 856 • The Dancing Partner • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• 863 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 872 • Father Meuron's Tale • (1907) • short story by R. H. Benson
• 881 • The Avenging of Ann Leete • (1923) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 893 • The Man with a Malady • [The Queer Side of Things] • (1894) • short story by Jas. F. Sullivan [as by J. F. Sullivan]
• 904 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 909 • The Anticipator • (1898) • short story by Morley Roberts
• 914 • The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 934 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair
• 953 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 984 • The Misanthrope • (1918) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• 993 • The Bad Lands • (1920) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 1003 • Nobody's House • (1927) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 1014 • The Seventh Man • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 1026 • Proof • (1919) • short story by Naomi Royde-Smith
• 1035 • Seaton's Aunt • (1922) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 1063 • The Gentleman from America • (1924) • short story by Michael Arlen
• 1080 • The Narrow Way • [Vision (Roberts) • 1] • (1923) • short story by R. Ellis Roberts
• 1094 • Sawney Bean and His Family • (1843) • short fiction by Traditional [as by uncredited]
• 1099 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 1110 • The Corsican Sisters • (1925) • novella by Violet Hunt
• 1187 • The End of a Show • (1901) • short story by Barry Pain
• 1190 • The Cone • non-genre • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 1201 • The Separate Room • (1917) • short story by Ethel Colburn Mayne