- Publication: Weird and Uncanny TalesPublication Record # 369551
- Editor: uncredited
- Date: 1945-00-00
- Publisher: Gulliver Books
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Price: 1/6?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: 94
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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
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Notes: #3 in Gulliver Books Library of short story masterpieces
Anthology Title:
Weird and Uncanny Tales • anthology by uncredited
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 5 • The Dream Woman • (1920) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman 1874) [as by W. Wilkie Collins]
- 29 • King James I on Witches • essay by uncredited
- 31 • The Torture of Hope • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883)
- 36 • The Brutal Streak • essay by uncredited
- 37 • The Dead Smile • (1899) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
- 58 • The Castle of Udolpho (excerpt) • short fiction by Ann Radcliffe
- 59 • The Man Without a Country • non-genre • (1863) • novelette by Edward Everett Hale
- 83 • Epitaph of a Jacobite • (1845) • poem by Thomas Babington Macaulay (variant of Epitaph on a Jacobite)
- 84 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
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