• Publication: Famous Tales of Terror and the SupernaturalPublication Record # 369086
• Editor: uncredited
• Date: 1945-00-00
• Publisher: Gulliver Books
• Price:
  1/6^?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: 96
• 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: Midget war-time paperback.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 3 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 19 • Maese Pérez • short story by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (trans. of Maese Pérez, el organista (Leyenda sevillana) 1866)
• 31 • The Man in the Reservoir • short story by Charles Fenno Hoffman (variant of Ben Blower's Story 1842) [as by C. F. Hoffman]
• 39 • The Diamond Lens • (1858) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 64 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 84 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens