Publication: Famous Tales of Mystery and Horror

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Publication: Famous Tales of Mystery and HorrorPublication Record # 622098
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Date: 1980-00-00
ISBN: 0-89375-369-6 [978-0-89375-369-6]
Publisher: Watermill Press
Pub. Series: Watermill Classic
Price:
$1.50^?$: US dollar
Pages: 132
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: COLLECTION
Notes:
- 2017-06-13 Data from Abebooks seller listing (ISBN and front cover which shows the price) and the primary verified $1.95 printing.
- The printing date and number are not stated. It's assumed this is the first printing as Watermill started publishing specfict in 1980 and were pricing their books at $1.50. In 1983 they increased their prices to $1.95.
- "Contents of this edition copyright © 1980 by Watermill Press, Mahwah, New Jersey." (stated on the $1.95 printing and inferred to exist on this printing based on the seller listing "Publication Date: 1980")
- A cover artist credit is not stated in this publication. A signature is not visible within the artwork.
- 2017-06-13 Amazon.com is showing a different cover and "Publisher: Troll Communications Llc (Dec. 1993)" for this ISBN.
- 2017-06-13 Not found on Locus1
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 8308227

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Collection Title: Famous Tales of Mystery and Horror • collection by Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

1 • The Telltale Heart • (1901) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Tell-Tale Heart 1843)
10 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
21 • The Oblong Box • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
41 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
101 • The Purloined Letter • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1844) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
133 • About the Author (Famous Tales of Mystery and Horror) • essay by uncredited

Secondary Verifications

Source	Status	Verifier	Date
Bleiler Early Years	Not Verified
Bleiler Supernatural	Not Verified
Bleiler1 (Gernsback)	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Bleiler78	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Clute/Grant	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Clute/Nicholls	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Contento1 (anth/coll)	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Currey	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Locus1	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Miller/Contento	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Reginald1	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Reginald3	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26
Tuck	N/A	Bluesman	2017-06-13 21:30:26

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