• Publication: Mystery StoriesPublication Record # 425323
• Editor: Helen Cresswell
• Date: 1996-00-00
• ISBN: 0-7534-5640-0 [978-0-7534-5640-8]
• Publisher: Kingfisher
• Pub. Series: Red Hot Reads
• 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
• Notes: Cloned from the second printing. Only stories with a speculative content are listed.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 52562269

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 7 • The Green Arches • short story by Joan Aiken
• 43 • The Girl Who Kissed the Peach Tree • 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 • (unknown) • 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)