• Publication: Eight Tales of TerrorPublication Record # 281928
• Author: Edgar Allan Poe
• Date: 1961-11-00
• Catalog ID: T290
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Price:
  $0.35^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: ix+197
• 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: COLLECTION
• Cover: Eight Tales of Terror (1961) • by Irv Docktor
• Notes:

  • stated 2nd printing
  • Irv Docktor credited as illustrator, but no explicit cover art credit given; it looks like there's a vertical signature on the front lower right, but I can't make it out.
  • Cover art by Docktor confirmed from the artist's website (a different edition's cover -- price $0.50 -- but the artwork is the same).

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Eight Tales of Terror • (1961) • interior artwork by Irv Docktor
• iv • Introduction (Eight Tales of Terror) • (1961) • essay by John P. Roberts
• 1 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 14 • Hop-Frog • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs 1849)
• 36 • MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 58 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 90 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 128 • William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
• 170 • The Mask of the Red Death • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 184 • The Imp of the Perverse • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe