Publication: Mystery Stories

Publication: Mystery StoriesPublication Record # 425321
Editor: Helen Cresswell
Date: date unknown
ISBN: 0-7534-5640-0 [978-0-7534-5640-8]
Publisher: Kingfisher
Pub. Series: Red Hot Reads
Price:
$5.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
Pages: 223
Format:
tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: Mystery Stories (1998) • by George Smith
Notes:
- Second printing per the numberline (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3) that is found on this book's copyright page.
- First printing of this edition was 1996, according to the copyright page.
- Cover art is copyrighted 1998.
- There are ninety-five (hand counted) black-and-white pen-and-ink line illustrations by Adrian Reynolds included in this book. These illustrations are quarter page, half page, and full page illustrations.
- Only stories with a speculative content are listed.
- Also included in this anthology is an excerpt from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and stories by Agatha Christie and Rodrigues Ottolengui.
- The story "A Sea Above the Sky" is accredited to Thomas Wright, however it has no copyright date, and editor Cresswell states that she found this story in the Victorian era published anthology Ten Thousand Wonderful Things edited by Edmund Fillingham King (p 127).
- No Canadian pricing.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 52562269

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Anthology Title: Mystery Stories • juvenile • (1996) • anthology by Helen Cresswell

Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • The Green Arches • (1996) • short story by Joan Aiken
43 • The Girl Who Kissed the Peach Tree • (1996) • short story by Eleanor Farjeon (variant of The Girl Who Kissed the Peach-Tree 1955)
52 • The Thing in the Pond • (1934) • short story by Paul Ernst
69 • Smart Ice Cream • (1985) • short story by Paul Jennings
75 • The Pelican • (1982) • short story by Ann Pilling
103 • The Tower • (1961) • essay by C. G. Jung [as by Carl Jung]
108 • The Scythe • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
127 • A Sea Above the Sky • short story by Thomas Wright
129 • A Vine on a House • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
135 • The Master • juvenile • (1989) • short story by Diana Wynne Jones
156 • King Arthur: How King Arthur Commanded to Cast His Sword Excalibur Into the Water, and How He was Delivered to Ladies in a Barge (excerpt) • (1485) • short fiction by Sir Thomas Malory
162 • The Whisperer • (1984) • short story by Vivien Alcock
176 • Texts • non-genre • (1990) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin [as by Ursula Le Guin]
180 • The Sky Sea • (1989) • short story by Helen Cresswell
192 • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1924) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
214 • The Bewitched Jacket • (1966) • short story by Dino Buzzati (trans. of La giacca stregata 1962)

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