Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror

Each story in Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror is an example of the work of an outstanding author—from Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to such modern masters as Agatha Christie, Ross Macdonald, Georges Simenon and a score of other famous names. Appearing in these pages are the world’s greatest fictional detectives—Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, James Bond, Lew Archer, Ellery Queen, Inspector Maigret and Perry Mason, all at work on some of their more baffling and fascinating cases. Contents: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle THE SUMMER PEOPLE / Shirley Jackson THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO / Edgar Allan Poe THE THIRD FLOOR FLAT / Agatha Christie WAS IT A DREAM / Guy de Maupassant THE FOURTH MAN / John Russell THE WENDIGO / Algernon Blackwood MIRIAM / Truman capote THE ARROW OF GOD / Leslie Charteris THE GETTYSBURG BUGLE / Ellery Queen The Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce DON’T LOOK NOW / Daphne du Maurier AN ALPINE DIVORCE / Robert Barr THE INCAUTIOUS BURGLAR / John Dickson Carr THANATOS PALACE HOTEL / André Maurois THE GHOST.SHIP / Richard Middleton AETER.DINNER STORY / William Irish ANOTHER SOLUTION j Gilbert Highet THE WAXWORK / A. M. Burrage FOR YOUR EYES ONLY / Ian Fleming THE FOGHORN / Gertrude Atherton LEININGEN VERSUS THE ANTS / c-arl. Stephenson AN INVITATION TO THE HUNT / George Hitchcock THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT / William Hope Hodgson MIDNIGHT BLUE / Ross Macdonald THE REIVRN OF IMRAY / Rudyard Kipling JOURNEY BACKWARD INTO TIME / Georges Simenon THE MOVIE PEOPLE / Robert Bloch BROKER’S SPECIAL / Stanley Ellin THE CASE OF THE IRATE WITNTESS / Erie Stanley Gardner THE NINE BILLION NAMES or GOD / Arthur C.