- Publication: The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror StoriesPublication Record # 357197
- Editor: Mary Danby
- Date: 1974-05-00
- ISBN: 0-00-612346-5 [978-0-00-612346-0]
- Publisher: Fontana
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Price: £0.30?£: UK pound
- Pages: 189
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Format: pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
Anthology Title:
The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories • [The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories • 5] • anthology by Mary Danby (variant of The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories 1970)
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 9 • The Blue Lenses • (1959) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
- 44 • The Man Upstairs • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
- 56 • A Woman Seldom Found • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
- 60 • The Graveyard Rats • (1936) • short story by Henry Kuttner
- 67 • The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
- 76 • The Sea-Raiders • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
- 86 • A Tale of the Ragged Mountains • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- 96 • Georgy Porgy • (1959) • novelette by Roald Dahl
- 119 • To Reach the Sea • (1965) • short story by Monica Dickens
- 122 • The Monster • (1970) • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
- 133 • His Brother's Keeper • non-genre • (1922) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
- 144 • The Hand • [La main d'écorché • 2] • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La main 1883)
- 151 • Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
- 166 • The Waxwork • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
- 178 • Quid Pro Quo • (1970) • short story by Mary Danby
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