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Publication: The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories

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  • Publication: The Evening Standard Book of Strange StoriesPublication Record # 362862
  • Editor: uncredited
  • Date: 1934-00-00
  • Publisher: Hutchinson
  • Price:
    3/6?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: 1024
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Webpages: archive.org
  • Notes: Contents from The Supernatural Index. The following non-genre stories by authors below threshold have not been indexed:
    • 29 • The Room on the Fourth Floor • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Ralph Straus
    • 159 • Query • non-genre • (1931) • short story by Austin J. Small [as by Seamark]
    • 231 • The Big Drum • non-genre • (1925) • short story by William Gerhardi
    • 267 • My Adventure at Chiselhurst • non-genre • (1932) • short story by A. J. Alan
    • 301 • The Song of Ho Ling • non-genre • (1921) • short story by Thomas Burke
    • 453 • The Punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the Builder • non-genre • (1856) • short story by George Meredith
    • 521 • Squirrel in a Cage • non-genre • (1930) • short story by E. M. Delafield
    • 625 • A Man of Letters • non-genre • (1921) • short story by Stacy Aumonier
    • 639 • Henry • non-genre • (1928) • short story by Phyllis Bottome
    • 661 • Romanoff • non-genre • short story by Ethel Mannin
    • 669 • Glasshouses • non-genre • short story by Marthe McKenna
    • 693 • The Dust That Was Barren • non-genre • short story by P. C. Wren
    • 705 • Balalaika • non-genre • (1926) • short story by Francis Brett Young
    • 747 • The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker • non-genre • (1926) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
    • 815 • I Pagliacci • non-genre • (1931) • short story by R. H. Mottram
    • 849 • Nor the Jury • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Selwyn Jepson
    Note to future verifiers: Please determine whether or not the following stories are speculative (all others have been checked): "Mary Ansell," "Chailey's Folly," "Crab-Apple Harvest;"' "Chinese Girl,"' "Sunset Woman," "Portrait of a Queen," " The Shade of Peterbee," "The Two Horns," "An Experiment with Blood," "The De Medici Cup," "High Tide," "Primula," "The House on Big Faraway," and "If a Man Might Tarry."
  • External IDs:
    • Bleiler Supernatural: 613
    • OCLC/WorldCat: 3329757
    • Reginald-1: 04969
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Anthology Title: The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories • [The Centuries] • anthology by uncredited

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Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years N/A Rtrace 2019-02-28 21:34:25
Bleiler Supernatural Verified Rtrace 2019-02-28 21:34:25
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Bleiler78 Verified Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:44:28
Clute/Grant Verified Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Clute/Nicholls N/A Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Currey N/A Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Locus1 N/A Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Miller/Contento N/A Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Reginald1 Verified Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Reginald3 N/A Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
Tuck Verified Rtrace 2013-03-24 18:37:15
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