• Publication: Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Second SeriesPublication Record # 601396
• Editor: Dorothy L. Sayers
• Date: 1932-07-00
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Price:
  5/-^?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: 1147
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: • First published July 1931. Second impression July 1932. • Price from Tuck
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 314785439

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 479 • My Adventure in Norfolk • (1924) • short story by A. J. Alan
• 485 • Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty • (1922) • short story by Stacy Aumonier
• 500 • The Leech of Folkestone • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • (1931) • novelette by Richard Harris Barham [as by R. H. Barham]
• 525 • A. V. Laider • (1916) • short story by Max Beerbohm
• 543 • The Room in the Tower • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 555 • Cut-Throat Farm • (1909) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• 559 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 567 • Secret Worship • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 598 • No. 17 • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Mrs. E. Bland]
• 606 • The Queer Door • (1930) • short story by Douglas G. Browne
• 621 • The Waxwork • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
• 633 • Mad Monkton • (1859) • novella by Wilkie Collins [as by William Wilkie Collins]
• 691 • The Haunted Ships • (1821) • short story by Allan Cunningham [as by Alan Cunningham]
• 705 • The King Waits • (1918) • short story by Clemence Dane
• 713 • The Tree • (1922) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 730 • The Second Awakening of a Magician • (1930) • short story by S. L. Dennis
• 739 • No. I Branch Line, the Signal-Man • (1931) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 752 • Riesenberg • (1911) • short fiction by Ford Madox Ford
• 777 • The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 802 • The Old Man • (1931) • short story by Holloway Horn
• 808 • The Prayer • (1895) • novelette by Violet Hunt
• 833 • The Well • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 844 • The Resurgent Mysteries • (1931) • short fiction by Edgar Jepson
• 861 • Mr. Justice Harbottle • [Martin Hesselius] • (1907) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
• 892 • The Haunted and the Haunters • (1931) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton]
• 927 • The Great Return • (1915) • novelette by Arthur Machen
• 958 • The Story of the Greek Slave • (1834) • short story by Frederick Marryat
• 971 • Anty Bligh • (1905) • short story by John Masefield
• 975 • The Double Admiral • (1925) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 986 • The Library Window • (1902) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
• 1024 • Rose Rose • (1910) • short story by Barry Pain
• 1030 • The Iron Pineapple • (1926) • short story by Eden Phillpotts
• 1046 • Berenice • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835)
• 1053 • The Roll-Call of the Reef • (1931) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 1068 • Mangaroo • (1926) • short story by Naomi Royde-Smith
• 1075 • Sredni Vashtar • (1910) • short story by Saki
• 1080 • The Mortal Immortal • (1891) • short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
• 1092 • The Primate of the Rose • (1928) • short story by M. P. Shiel
• 1108 • Called to the Rescue • (1863) • short story by Henry Spicer
• 1112 • The Enemy • (1923) • short story by Hugh Walpole
• 1122 • The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 1134 • Lukundoo • (1927) • short story by Edward Lucas White [as by E. L. White]