Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, Montague Rhodes James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H.P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke · First published 1982
