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Title: The House in Goblin Wood Title Record # 686017
Author: John Dickson Carr
Date: 1947-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: This is a non-genre locked room mystery.
Synopsis: A woman who, as a girl years ago had mysteriously disappeared from her room and reappeared a week later, returns to the same cottage and again disappears.
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1947 The House in Goblin Wood [as by Carter Dickson]

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1947 1947-11-00 ed. Editors of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine    
$0.25?$: US dollar
 
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag  
Bedside Tales of Mystery and Suspense 1963-00-00 ed. uncredited Panther 1473
2/6?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).
126
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.
anth  
Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre 1976-00-00 ed. Les Daniels Charles Scribner's Sons 0-684-14624-X
$12.95?$: US dollar
x+
271
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Lee Brown Coye Checkmark
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1985-05-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Doubleday / SFBC 5144
$6.98?$: US dollar
xv+
623
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Gorey Checkmark
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1985-06-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Doubleday 0-385-18549-9
$15.95?$: US dollar
xv+
623
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Gorey Checkmark
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1990-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Dorset Press 0-88029-518-X
$8.95?$: US dollar
xv+
623
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Edward Gorey  
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1991-12-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Macdonald 0-356-20221-6
£14.95?£: UK pound
xiii+
658
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.
anth Ashley Pearce  
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1992-10-00 ed. Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye Warner Books UK 0-7515-0030-5
£8.99?£: UK pound
xiii+
658
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Ashley Pearce  
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