- Publication: The House of the Nightmare: and Other Eerie TalesPublication Record # 303379
- Editor: Kathleen Lines
- Date: 1975-00-00
- ISBN: 0-374-33432-3 [978-0-374-33432-1]
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Price: $5.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
- Pages: xii+239
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Cover: The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales (1967) • by Jutta Ash
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Notes: Stated 4th printing. Contains seven "true firsthand accounts". Only one is indexed as it is by a notable genre author (Sutcliff). The others are not as they are non-genre.
Anthology Title:
The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales • juvenile • (1967) • anthology by Kathleen Lines
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- vii • Foreword (The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales) • (1967) • essay by Kathleen Lines
- 3 • The House of the Nightmare • (1906) • short story by Edward Lucas White
- 15 • The Hauntings at Thorhallstead • (1967) • short story by Allen French
- 25 • His Own Number • (1963) • short story by William Croft Dickinson
- 38 • Gabriel-Ernest • (1909) • short story by Saki
- 47 • Hand in Glove • (1952) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
- 61 • Mr. Fox • (1967) • short fiction by Joseph Jacobs [as by Traditional English]
- 65 • Curfew • (1967) • short story by L. M. Boston
- 77 • John Bartine's Watch: A Story by a Physician • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of John Bartine's Watch 1893)
- 85 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
- 100 • My Grandfather, Hendry Watty • (1932) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
- 108 • A School Story • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
- 117 • The Red Cane • (1967) • short story by E. F. Bozman
- 123 • A Diagnosis of Death • (1901) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
- 128 • Bad Company • (1954) • short story by Walter de la Mare
- 137 • Proof • (1964) • short story by Henry Cecil
- 142 • The Amulet • (1939) • short fiction by Thomas Raddall
- 159 • The Hair • (1928) • short story by A. J. Alan
- 170 • The Return of the Native • (1963) • short story by William Croft Dickinson
- 185 • The Earlier Service • (1935) • short story by Margaret Irwin
- 211 • The Man Who Died at Sea • (1967) • essay by Rosemary Sutcliff