Tales of Terror
EUROPEAN TALES OF TERROR Selected by J.J.Strating

MOMENTS OF TERROR, ETERNITIES OF OF FEAR
From Balzac, Schnitzler, De Maupassant, Buzzati and many others, a new collection of Ghost and Horror stories by European writers - some of them now published in this country for the first time.

Contents:

  • GHOSTS - Marie Luise Kaschnitz
  • AN APPARITION - Knut Hamsun
  • WHO KNOWS? - Guy de Maupassant
  • THE IDOL OF THE CYCLADES - Julio Cortázar
  • VAMPIRES LTD - Josef Nesvadba
  • THE EXECUTIONER - Honoré de Balzac
  • IN THE PENAL SETTLEMENT - Franz Kafka
  • THE FATE OF THE BARON - Arthur Schnitzler
  • JUST THE VERY THING THEY WANTED - Dino Buzzati
  • OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN - Valentin Katayev
  • THE GREAT HAPPENING - Belcampo


First published in Fontana Books, December 1968
© J J Strating 1968

 
VICTORIAN TALES OF TERROR 
Edited by Hugh Lamb

From the gaslit nights of the age of Jack the Ripper comes this volume of long-buried horror, a selection of terrifying tales from the pens of Charles Dickens, J Sheridan le Fanu, Guy de Maupassant, Mrs Molesworth and others.

  • XÉLUCHA - M P Shiel
  • THE BLACK VEIL - Charles Dickens
  • THE MYSTERY AT FERNWOOD - 
    Elizabeth Braddon
  • THE BLACK LADY OF BRIN TOR - 
    Guy Boothby
  • THE MOTHER OF MONSTERS - 
    Guy de Maupassant
  • THE MURDERER'S VIOLIN - Erckmann-Chatrian
  • THE MASK - Richard Marsh
  • THE DEAD MAN OF VARLEY GRANGE - Anon
  • MY FAVOURITE MURDER - Ambrose Bierce
  • THE SHADOW IN THE MOONLIGHT - 
    Mrs Molesworth
  • THE LAST OF SQUIRE ENNISMORE - 
    Mrs J H Riddell
  • THE RED WARDER OF THE REEF - J A Barry
  • WOLVERDEN TOWER - Grant Allen
  • MADAM CROWL'S GHOST - 
    J Sheridan le Fanu
  • THE CAVE OF BLOOD - Dick Donovan
© Hugh Lamb 1974. First published in Great Britain 1974 by W H Allen & Co Ltd. 
Coronet Edition 1976
Dance with Algernon Blackwood

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