Publication: Best Horror Stories

Publication: Best Horror StoriesPublication Record # 4095
Editor: John Keir Cross
Date: 1957-00-00
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Price:
15/-^?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: 300
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes:
- Contento and Tuck give 1956 as the year of publication, but all online catalogs indicate that the copyright date and the publication date were 1957.
- Reginald1 and Bleiler, below, have 1957
External IDs:
- Bleiler Supernatural: 456
- OCLC/WorldCat: 1590941
- Reginald-1: 03646

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

9 • Introduction (Best Horror Stories) • essay by John Keir Cross
17 • Skeleton • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
36 • A Watcher by the Dead • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
49 • Raspberry Jam • non-genre • (1949) • short story by Angus Wilson
69 • Berenice • non-genre • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
Berenice—A Tale^?Berenice-A Tale
1835)
78 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
85 • Lot No. 249 • (1892) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
125 • The Lovers • (1944) • short story by John Keir Cross
135 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
151 • The End of the Party • (1932) • short story by Graham Greene
162 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher
175 • Bartleby • non-genre • (1853) • novelette by Herman Melville
219 • Our Feathered Friends • (1931) • short story by Philip MacDonald
231 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
243 • Mars Is Heaven! • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
263 • "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" • (1904) • novelette by M. R. James
287 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner

Source	Status	Verifier	Date
Clute/Nicholls	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-13 19:20:05
Clute/Grant	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-13 19:20:05
Contento1 (anth/coll)	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-13 19:20:05
Reginald1	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-13 19:20:05
Tuck	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-13 19:20:05
Bleiler Supernatural	Verified	Rtrace	2019-01-15 07:12:33
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Bluesman	2011-11-13 19:20:05