• Publication: Famous Tales of the FantasticPublication Record # 848613
• Editor: Herbert van Thal
• Date: 1965-10-00
• Publisher: Hill and Wang
• Pages: 207
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Webpages: archive.org
• Notes:

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "First Edition October 1965"
  • Interior art credit per title page
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • Stories are preceded by a page with only the title on it. Page numbers listed below are the following page which contains the title, author, and start of the story.
  • "Comrade Pigeon" translator is uncredited, but it is same translation by Richard Howard as in Hissing Tales
  • Internet Archive scan is missing dust jacket & is possibly rebound
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 65-24719

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Famous Tales of the Fantastic • (1965) • interior artwork by Edward Pagram
• 11 • Invisible Boy • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 25 • The King Is Dead, Long Live the King • (1928) • short story by Mary Coleridge
• 37 • The Speckled Band • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1965) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Adventure of the Speckled Band 1892) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 67 • Comrade Pigeon • (1964) • short story by Romain Gary (trans. of Citoyen pigeon 1945)
• 75 • The Crossways • (1961) • short story by L. P. Hartley [as by Leslie Poles Hartley]
• 87 • The Roll-Call of the Reef • (1931) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 107 • The Ballroom • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
• 119 • The Bottle Imp • (1891) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 151 • The Magic Shop • short story by H. G. Wells [as by Herbert George Wells]
• 167 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 201 • The Adventure of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving