• Publication: The World's Great Mystery StoriesPublication Record # 367597
• Editor: Will Cuppy
• Date: 1943-01-00
• Publisher: World Publishing Co.
• Price:
  $0.49^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: 321
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: • "First printing January 1943." • Price from Tuck
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 461
  • LCCN: 43-4557
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1591974
  • Reginald-1: 03703

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Introduction (The World's Great Mystery Stories) • (1943) • essay by Will Cuppy
• 15 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 25 • The Adventures of the Clapham Cook • [Hercule Poirot] • (1923) • short story by Agatha Christie
• 39 • A Message for Laura • (1943) • short story by Francis Brett Young
• 54 • Suspicion • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 70 • The Fiend of the Cooperage • (1897) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 83 • Miss Mary Pask • (1925) • short story by Edith Wharton
• 98 • The Signal-Man • (1875) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 111 • The Cosy Room • non-genre • (1929) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 117 • A Bird in the Hand • (1931) • novelette by Irvin S. Cobb
• 137 • The Listener • (1907) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 163 • A Short Trip Home • (1927) • novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 185 • The Magic of Fear • (1925) • short story by Edgar Wallace
• 201 • The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 218 • The Interruption • non-genre • (1925) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 231 • The Dream Woman • (1874) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman)
• 255 • The Boarded Window • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 260 • Vain Oblations • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• 279 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 286 • The Iron Shroud • (1830) • short story by William Mudford
• 301 • Who Do You Think Did It? or, The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery • (1943) • short story by Stephen Leacock