• Publication: Die besten klassischen und modernen Gruselgeschichten von Poe bis HemingwayPublication Record # 597959
• Editor: Mary Hottinger
• Date: 1968-00-00
• Publisher: Diogenes
• Price:
  DM 12.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
• Pages: 452+[3]
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Cover: Die besten klassischen und modernen Gruselgeschichten von Poe bis Hemingway by Paul Flora (variant of Markheim 1961)
• Notes:

  • First edition using this title, first printing.
  • The pages following the respective pieces of interior art are blank in each case.
  • The last shortfiction ends on the unnumbered page 452.
  • The table of contents appears on p. [453]f.
  • A note of thanks is on p. [455].
  • Basic data from Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, contents from a variantly titled edition.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • Apologia horroris: Eine Ehrenrettung der Gruselgeschichte • (1961) • essay by Mary Hottinger
• 17 • Die Reise der Mary Celeste • (1961) • short story by Mary Hottinger (trans. of The Voyage of the Mary Celeste unpublished)
• 21 • Der Rote Tod • (1945) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (trans. of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 27 •  Minotaurus mit Jungfrau • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 31 • Das freundliche Zimmer • non-genre • (1961) • short story by Arthur Machen (trans. of The Cosy Room 1929)
• 41 • Der Bahnwärter • (1961) • short story by Charles Dickens (trans. of The Signalman 1866)
• 47 •  Von Panik ergriffener Ingenieur • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 51 • Die Totenwache • (1961) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (trans. of A Watcher by the Dead 1889)
• 67 • Eine Tatsache • (1954) • short story by Rudyard Kipling (trans. of A Matter of Fact 1892)
• 87 • Unsere gefiederten Freunde • (1961) • short story by Philip MacDonald (trans. of Our Feathered Friends 1931)
• 93 •  Grauenhafte Erscheinung • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 105 • Markheim • (1960) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (trans. of Markheim 1885) [as by R. L. Stevenson]
• 115 •  Markheim • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 131 • Die Turmstube • (1961) • short story by E. F. Benson (trans. of The Room in the Tower 1912)
• 135 •  Geisterzug • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 153 • Die lockende Schöne • (1961) • novella by Oliver Onions (trans. of The Beckoning Fair One 1911)
• 195 •  Abstrakte Braut • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 251 • 'Sie' • (1954) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling (trans. of "They" 1904)
• 285 • Sredni Vashtar • (1959) • short story by Saki (trans. of Sredni Vashtar 1910)
• 289 •  Blutsauger • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 295 • Verlorene Vergangenheit • (1961) • short story by R. H. Mottram (trans. of Lost Property 1927)
• 309 •  Drei Ahnfrauen • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 315 • Der Pfeifenraucher • (1961) • short story by Martin Armstrong (trans. of The Pipe-Smoker 1932)
• 325 •  
  Heimtückische Verwandlung^?Heimtueckische Verwandlung
  • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 329 • Der Mann, der Dickens liebte • non-genre • (1936) • short story by Evelyn Waugh (trans. of The Man Who Liked Dickens 1933)
• 347 • Augusthitze • (1961) • short story by William Fryer Harvey (trans. of August Heat 1910) [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 355 • Die Lotterie • (1961) • short story by Shirley Jackson (trans. of The Lottery 1948)
• 367 •  
  Dämonische Insekten^?Daemonische Insekten
  • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 371 • Die Wachsfigur • (1961) • short story by A. M. Burrage (trans. of The Waxwork 1931)
• 389 • Die Killer • non-genre • (1958) • short story by Ernest Hemingway (trans. of The Killers 1927)
• 391 •  Die Killer • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 405 • Trauermarsch • (1961) • short story by John Metcalfe (trans. of The Funeral March of a Marionette 1927)
• 417 • Miss Bella gibt eine Gesellschaft • non-genre • (1959) • short story by Evelyn Waugh (trans. of Bella Fleace Gave a Party 1932)
• 429 •  Verwestes Paar • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora
• 435 • Das Geisterschiff • (1961) • short story by Richard Middleton (trans. of The Ghost-Ship 1912)
• 443 •  Gespenstisches Schiff • (1961) • interior artwork by Paul Flora