- Publication: The Third Pan Book of Horror StoriesPublication Record # 152281
- Editor: Herbert van Thal
- Date: 1966-00-00
- Catalog ID: X161
- Publisher: Pan Books
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Price: 3/6?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: 268
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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: ANTHOLOGY
- Webpages: archive.org
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Notes: 5th Printing 1966 Other prices on back cover of Archive.org copy: Australia (6/-) 60¢, New Zealand 4/6, South Africa 45¢. Last page is unnumbered.
Anthology Title:
The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories • [Pan Books of Horror Stories • 3] • (1962) • anthology by Herbert van Thal
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 9 • The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York • (1906) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
- 43 • The Last Night • (1932) • short story by Charles Birkin
- 51 • The Meshes of Doom • (1933) • short story by Neville Kilvington
- 62 • The Yellow Cat • (1924) • short story by Michael Joseph
- 73 • Special Diet • (1933) • short story by Charles Birkin [as by Charles Lloyd]
- 84 • Unburied Bane • (1933) • short story by N. Dennett
- 101 • The Shifting Growth • (1962) • short story by John Gawsworth and Edgar Jepson [as by John Gawsworth]
- 105 • Two Bottles of Relish • non-genre • (1932) • short story by Lord Dunsany
- 119 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
- 129 • A Poem and a Bunch of Roses • (1933) • short story by Charles Birkin [as by Charles Lloyd]
- 140 • The Execution of Damiens • (1936) • short story by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Hinrichtung des Damiens 1922) [as by H. H. Ewers]
- 157 • The Ocean Leech • (1925) • short story by Frank Belknap Long
- 167 • An Eye for an Eye • (1932) • short story by Charles Birkin
- 182 • The Whistling Room • [Carnacki (Hodgson)] • (1910) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
- 200 • A Note for the Milkman • (1950) • short story by Sidney Carroll
- 212 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- 222 • The Mystery of the Locked Room • (1933) • short story by Elliott O'Donnell
- 228 • Dr Fawcett's Experiment • (1933) • short story by Raymond Ferrers Broad (variant of Doctor Fawcett's Experiment)
- 242 • The Caretaker's Story • (1934) • short story by Edith Olivier
- 250 • Lover's Meeting • (1933) • short story by John Ratho
- 257 • The Cone • non-genre • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
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