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Anthology Title:
The Cold Embrace and Other Stories • anthology by Alex Hamilton
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 7 • Foreword (The Cold Embrace and Other Stories) • essay by Alex Hamilton
- 11 • The Cold Embrace • (1860) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- 19 • Open End • short story by Shena MacKay
- 24 • The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
- 32 • The Demon Lover • (1941) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
- 38 • The Last Séance • (1926) • short story by Agatha Christie
- 51 • The Werewolf • poem by Marie de France (trans. of Bisclavret unknown)
- 57 • The Country Gentleman • (1953) • short story by Margaret Irwin
- 66 • The King Is Dead • short story by Mary Coleridge (variant of The King Is Dead, Long Live the King 1890) [as by Mary E. Coleridge]
- 72 • Akin to Love • (1963) • short story by Christianna Brand
- 78 • John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
- 85 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher
- 94 • The Cenotaph (excerpt) • short fiction by Scheherezade
- 101 • Three Miles Up • (1951) • short story by Elizabeth Jane Howard
- 118 • The Confessor • non-genre • short story by Marguerite de Navarre
- 122 • The Press Gang • (1963) • short fiction by Janet Frame
- 124 • Judgement Day • non-genre • (1965) • novelette by Flannery O'Connor
- 141 • The Doom of the Griffiths • (1858) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
- 172 • Poor Girl • (1955) • short story by Elizabeth Taylor