• Publication: Famous Tales of the FantasticPublication Record # 260980
• Editor: Herbert van Thal
• Date: 1965-00-00
• Publisher: Arthur Barker
• Price:
  18/-^?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: 207
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 6673487
  • Reginald-1: 14516

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Famous Tales of the Fantastic • interior artwork by Edward Pagram
• 9 • Invisible Boy • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 23 • The King Is Dead, Long Live the King • (1928) • short story by Mary Coleridge
• 35 • The Speckled Band • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Adventure of the Speckled Band 1892) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 65 • Comrade Pigeon • (1964) • short story by Romain Gary (trans. of Citoyen pigeon 1962)
• 73 • The Crossways • (1961) • short story by L. P. Hartley [as by Leslie Poles Hartley]
• 85 • The Roll-Call of the Reef • (1931) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 105 • The Ballroom • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
• 117 • The Bottle Imp • (1891) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 149 • The Magic Shop • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 165 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 199 • The Adventure of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving