The house of the nightmare, and other eerie tales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lines, Kathleen, compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales.

Ghost stories.

Genre:

Horror tales.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 239 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1968]

Summary:

Twenty-six sinister tales from the imaginations of writers like Saki, Elizabeth Bowen, Ambrose Bierce, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, and Walter de la Mare. Includes seven accounts of true incidents.

Contents:

The house of the nightmare /Edward Lucas White.

The hauntings at Thorhallstead /Allen French.

His own number /William Croft Dickenson.

Gabriel-Ernest /Saki.

Hand in glove /Elizabeth Bowen.

Mr. Fox.

Curfew /L. M. Boston.

John Bartine's watch /Ambrose Bierce.

The monkey's paw /W. W. Jacobs.

My grandfather, Hendry Watty /Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.

A school story /M. R. James.

The red cane /E. F. Boxman.

A diagnosis of death /Ambrose Bierce.

Bad company /Walter de la Mare.

Proof /Henry Cecil.

The amulet /Thomas Raddall.

The hair /A. J. Alan.

The return of the native /William Croft Dickinson.

The earlier service /Margaret Irwin.

"Here I am again!" /Charles G.S.

The man who died at sea /Rosemary Sutcliff.

The wish hounds /Kathleen Hunt.

The man in the road /F. M. Pilkington.

My haunted houses /M. Joyce Dixon.

In search of a ghost /Eric Roberts.

The limping man of Makin-Meang /Arthur Grimble.

Notes:

"An Ariel book."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

443113