• Publication: 75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's LiteraturePublication Record # 638918
• Editor: Roger B. Goodman
• Date: 1983-08-00
• ISBN: 0-553-25141-4 [978-0-553-25141-8]
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Price:
  $3.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
• Pages: xiv+283
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • 24th printing, dated "August 1983" on copyright page.
  • Only speculative stories and stories by genre authors have been listed here.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 20 • A Psychological Shipwreck • (1879) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 29 • I See You Never • non-genre • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 46 • The Chaser • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 61 • The Riddle • (1903) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 71 • The Heavenly Christmas Tree • (1918) • short story by
  Фёдор Достоевский^?Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  (trans. of
  Мальчик у Христа на ёлке^?Mal'chik u Khrista na yolke
  1876) [as by Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
• 75 • The Ghosts • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 86 • Mr. Andrews • (1928) • short story by E. M. Forster
• 101 • Virtuoso • (1953) • short story by Herbert Goldstone
• 113 • Proof Positive • (1935) • short story by Graham Greene
• 123 • The Hollow of the Three Hills • (1830) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 131 • The Boy Who Drew Cats • [Japanese Fairy Tale Series • 23] • (1898) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 134 • The Lost Soul • (1939) • short story by Ben Hecht
• 156 • Charles • non-genre • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 177 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 206 • How the Devil Lost His Poncho • (1945) • short story by Ricardo Palma (trans. of Dónde y cómo el diablo perdió el poncho 1894)
• 214 • The Oval Portrait • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 243 • The Three Hermits: An Old Legend Current in the Volga District • (1907) • short story by
  Лев Толстой^?Lev Tolstoy
  (trans. of
  Три старца^?Tri startsa
  1886) [as by Leo Tolstoy]
• 249 • The Doctor's Heroism • (1946) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of L'héroïsme du docteur Hallidonhill 1883)
• 253 • The Beggar-Woman of Locarno • (1934) • short story by Heinrich von Kleist (trans. of Das Bettelweib von Locarno 1810)
• 255 • The Phoenix • (1940) • short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• 263 • The Hour of Letdown • (1951) • short story by E. B. White
• 267 • Moonlight Sonata • (1931) • short story by Alexander Woollcott
• 270 • God • (1953) • short story by
  Евгений Замятин^?Yevgeny Zamyatin
  (trans. of
  Бог^?Bog
  1916) [as by Eugene Ivanovich Zamiatin]