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Anthology Title:
The Best Horror Stories • (1977) • anthology by Lynn Picknett [as by uncredited]
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- 7 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- 15 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- 20 • The Premature Burial • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- 32 • The Torture of Hope • (1909) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883)
- 37 • An Episode of the Terror • (1973) • short story by Honoré de Balzac?Honore de Balzac(trans. of Un épisode sous la Terreur 1830)
- 51 • The Hand • [La main d'écorché • 2] • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La main 1883)
- 57 • The Withered Arm • (1888) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
- 80 • The Idiots • non-genre • (1896) • short story by Joseph Conrad
- 99 • The Bird • (1916) • short story by Thomas Burke
- 106 • Lot No. 249 • (1892) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 134 • The Sentence • (1921) • novelette by J. Kaden-Bandrowski
- 154 • Arabesque: The Mouse • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
- 160 • Cinci • non-genre • (1965) • short story by Luigi Pirandello (trans. of Cinci 1932)
- 168 • Suspicion • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
- 182 • Dead on Her Feet • (1935) • short story by Cornell Woolrich
- 199 • Taboo • (1939) • novelette by Geoffrey Household
- 217 • A Little Place Off the Edgware Road • (1939) • short story by Graham Greene
- 222 • The Words of Guru • (1941) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
- 229 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • short story by Robert Bloch
- 246 • The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
- 258 • Evening Primrose • (1940) • short story by John Collier
- 269 • Back from the Grave • (1958) • short story by Robert Silverberg
- 279 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
- 287 • The Comforts of Home • non-genre • (1960) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
- 305 • Pig • (1959) • short story by Roald Dahl
- 322 • Robert • non-genre • (1958) • short story by Stanley Ellin
- 335 • The Question • (1962) • short story by Stanley Ellin (variant of The Question My Son Asked)
- 343 • The Terrapin • non-genre • (1962) • short story by Patricia Highsmith
- 355 • Not After Midnight • (1971) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
- 391 • Corabella • (1975) • short story by Owen Brookes [as by David Fletcher]