Publication: The Best Short Stories of M.P. Shiel

Publication: The Best Short Stories of M.P. ShielPublication Record # 504904
Author: M. P. Shiel
Date: 1948-00-00
Publisher: Gollancz
Price:
10/6^?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: 310
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: COLLECTION
Notes:
- Some stories may not be genre, but a reviewer described them as "12 chilling short stories".
- Stories selected by John Gawsworth.
- The page numbers for the contents here give the page of the title page of that story, which is our policy. The book's ToC gives the actual page on which the story text begins, which for each of the stories is two pages later than that listed here.
- Price "10/6 net" on bottom of front flap of dust jacket. [Tuck has 8/6]
- 8 b&w line drawings, uncredited.
External IDs:
- Bleiler Supernatural: 1472
- OCLC/WorldCat: 5233040
- Reginald-1: 13023

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

5 • Foreword (The Best Short Stories of M.P. Shiel) • essay by John Gawsworth
9 • The Race of Orven • [Prince Zaleski] • (1895) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
41 • The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks • [Prince Zaleski] • (1895) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
63 • The S.S. • [Prince Zaleski] • (1895) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
97 •
Xélucha^?Xelucha
• (1896) • short story by M. P. Shiel
109 • Vaila • (1896) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
145 • Tulsah • (1896) • short story by M. P. Shiel
161 • Phorfor • (1896) • novella by M. P. Shiel
217 • Huguenin's Wife • (1895) • short story by M. P. Shiel
231 • Dark Lot of One Saul • (1912) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
259 • Monk Wakes an Echo • [Cummings King Monk] • short story by M. P. Shiel (variant of He Wakes an Echo 1911)
277 • The Bride • (1902) • short story by M. P. Shiel
293 • The Primate of the Rose • (1928) • short story by M. P. Shiel

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