- Publication: The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror StoriesPublication Record # 357201
- Editor: Mary Danby
- Date: 1971-08-00
- Publisher: Fontana
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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: ANTHOLOGY
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Notes: "Second Impression August 1971" Indicated in May 1974 printing.
Anthology Title:
The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories • [The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories • 5] • (1970) • anthology by Mary Danby
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- A Tale of the Ragged Mountains • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- A Woman Seldom Found • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
- Georgy Porgy • (1959) • novelette by Roald Dahl
- His Brother's Keeper • non-genre • (1922) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
- Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
- Quid Pro Quo • (1970) • short story by Mary Danby
- The Blue Lenses • (1959) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
- The Graveyard Rats • (1936) • short story by Henry Kuttner
- The Hand • [La main d'écorché • 2] • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La main 1883)
- The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
- The Man Upstairs • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
- The Monster • (1970) • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
- The Sea-Raiders • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
- The Waxwork • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
- To Reach the Sea • (1965) • short story by Monica Dickens