• Publication: The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary TalesPublication Record # 622066
• Author: Maria Leach
• Date: 1959-00-00
• Publisher: World Publishing Co.
• Price:
  $2.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 126
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  1st ed.
  • ISBN 0529035456 ? LCCN as "[1959]" and OCLC as "(c)1959" report ISBN 0529035456. Some WorldCat records dated 1959 in some fashion give that ISBN; some give publisher Collins–World or similar, rather than World. For ISBN 0529035456 as of 2017-06-19, Amazon.com states "Library Binding" and "Putnam Pub Group Library (June 1959)", provides cover image apparently identical to the 2016 Dover republication.
  • Price from brief review by Ethna Sheehan in "Folktales Retold" NY Times 1959-05-10 pBRA16 (Title not found 2017-06-12 in UK newspapers 1959, 1960)
  • Contents (see Title Reference for more info) -- 35 beside illustrations, introduction, notes, bibliography -- page numbers below, from 2016 Dover republication
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 59006658
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 9418069

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales • interior artwork by Kurt Werth
• 9 • Some People Say • essay by Maria Leach
• 15 • The Thing at the Foot of the Bed • short story by Maria Leach
• 17 • Here We Go! • short story by Maria Leach
• 20 • The Guitar Player • short story by Maria Leach
• 21 • Never Mind Them Watermelons • (1958) • short story by Maria Leach
• 23 • Wait Till Martin Comes • short story by Maria Leach
• 27 • Big Fraid and Little Fraid • short story by Maria Leach
• 30 • The Lucky Man • short story by Maria Leach
• 33 • The Golden Arm • short story by Maria Leach
• 37 • The Dare • short story by Maria Leach
• 40 • I'm in the Room! • short story by Maria Leach
• 41 • No Head • short story by Maria Leach
• 44 • As Long As This? • short story by Maria Leach
• 46 • The Legs • short story by Maria Leach
• 49 • Talk • short story by Maria Leach
• 51 • Dark, Dark, Dark • short story by Maria Leach
• 55 • Sweet William's Ghost • short story by Maria Leach
• 60 • Milk Bottles • short story by Maria Leach
• 63 • The Head • short story by Maria Leach
• 65 • The Lovelorn Pig • short story by Maria Leach
• 68 • The Ghostly Crew • short story by Maria Leach
• 71 • The Ghostly Hitchhiker • (1958) • short story by Maria Leach
• 73 • Aunt Tilly • short story by Maria Leach
• 75 • The Cradle That Rocked by Itself • short story by Maria Leach
• 77 • The Gangster in the Back Seat • short story by Maria Leach
• 83 • The Devil in the Dishes • short story by Maria Leach
• 84 • Old Roger • short story by Maria Leach
• 87 • Ghost • short story by Maria Leach
• 91 • Witch Cat • short story by Maria Leach
• 95 • Sop, Doll! • short story by Maria Leach
• 99 • Singing Bone • short story by Maria Leach
• 105 • Signs of Ghosts • short fiction by Maria Leach
• 107 • Charms Against Ghosts • short fiction by Maria Leach
• 110 • How to See Ghosts • short fiction by Maria Leach
• 112 • Don't— • short fiction by Maria Leach
• 114 • Don't Ever Kick a Ghost • short fiction by Maria Leach
• 115 • Author's Notes and Bibliography (The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales) • essay by Maria Leach