Publication: Great Stories of Mystery and Imagination

Publication: Great Stories of Mystery and ImaginationPublication Record # 365954
Editor: Bryan Douglas
Date: 1966-02-28
Catalog ID: 1324
Publisher: Fontana
Price:
3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 223
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
Notes:
- 1st ed.
- Spin-off from a British television series (See the anthology record.)
- WorldCat record OCLC 18901233 reports: -- Series: Fontana Lions -- Contents (10 stories), as listed below with two exceptions as of March 2019: reported author names "Robert L. Stevenson" and "Edgar Allen Poe" WorldCat does list variant title "The Phantom Lover".
- Publication date and price listing in "Books", London Life 1966-02-26 p58; that is, Saturday listing as a Monday publication.
- Contents' page numbers from richarddalbyslibrary.com copy. Back cover shows 2 photos from the TV series.
External IDs:
- ASIN: B004KYB8N0 AU BR CA CN DE ES FR IN IT JP MX NL TR UAE UK US (US/UK earn commissions)
- OCLC/WorldCat: 18901233
- Reginald-1: 04475

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Anthology Title: Great Stories of Mystery and Imagination • anthology by Bryan Douglas

Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
25 • Room 13 • short story by M. R. James (variant of Number 13 1904)
40 • The Phantom Lover • novella by Vernon Lee (variant of A Phantom Lover 1886)
87 • Lost Hearts • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
97 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
115 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
142 • The Tractate Middoth • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
158 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]

Secondary Verifications

Source	Status	Verifier	Date
Reginald1	Verified	Chris J	2016-02-17 22:24:54
Tuck	Verified	Rtrace	2021-05-22 12:04:58
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Chris J	2016-02-17 22:24:54

Publication: Great Stories of Mystery and Imagination

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

Secondary Verifications