• Publication: Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror, Third SeriesPublication Record # 601399
• Editor: Dorothy L. Sayers
• Date: 1949-00-00
• 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: 1069
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: • Price from Tuck who has a page count of 1072 • Both OCLC 11336762 [and other records] have 1069 pages
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 11336762

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Wendigo • (1910) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
• The Mistaken Fury • (1914) • short fiction by Oswald Couldrey
• The Diary of Mr. Poynter • (1919) • short story by M. R. James
• Time-Fuse • (1931) • short story by John Metcalfe
• A Pair of Hands • (1898) • short fiction by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by A. T. Quiller-Couch]
• The Hill • [Invasion (R. Ellis Roberts) • 1] • (1923) • short story by R. Ellis Roberts
• The Frontier Guards • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield [as by H. R. Wakefield]
• The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• The Book • (1930) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• The Bargain • (1934) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• The Song in the House • (1933) • short story by Ann Bridge
• Sophy Mason Comes Back • (1930) • short story by E. M. Delafield
• The Scoop • (1934) • short story by Leonora Gregory
• The House of Desolation • (1934) • short story by Donald Suddaby [as by Alan Griff]
• Anniversary • (1932) • short story by Clarence Winchester
• "You'll Come to the Tree in the End" • (1934) • short story by Cyril Landon
• Decay • (1934) • short story by John C. Moore [as by J. C. Moore]
• The Pattern • (1934) • short fiction by Naomi Royde-Smith
• What Can a Dead Man Do? • (1934) • short fiction by Herbert Shaw
• No Ships Pass • (1932) • short fiction by Lady Eleanor Smith [as by Eleanor Smith (I)]