Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror

Overview:

  • Title: Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 1982
  • ISBN-10: 0895770911
  • Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
  • Pages: 639
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Nine Billion Names of God
  • Notes:
    • OCLC has the complete contents listing, not all are spec-fic
    Thanatos Palace Hotel is translated by Adrienne Foulke, in credit below author's name below the title on page 346.
    • page number taken from internet archive copy.
    • The following titles were left out of the Content. Third Floor Flat, Agatha Christie (54), The Arrow of God, Leslie Charteris (222), The Gettysburg Bugle, Ellery Queen (254), The Incautious Burglar, John Dickson Carr (331), After-Dinner Story, William Irish (388), For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming (426), Midnight Blue, Ross Macdonald (518), Journey Backward in Time, Georges Simenon (559), and The Case of the Irate Witness, Erle Stanley Gardner (602)
    • The following selections appear in condensed form: The Red-Headed League, The Turn of the Tide, The Summer People, The Cask of Amontillado, The Man Who Liked Dickens, The Fourth Man, The Wendigo, The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It, The Absence of Mr. Glass, The Log of the "Evening Star", Casting the Runes, The Whole Town's Sleeping, The Arrow of God, the Gettysburg Bugle, The Damned Thing, Don't Look Now, The Hands of Mr. Ottermole, An Alpine Divorce, The Incautious Burglar, The Ghost-Ship, The Rats in the Walls, After-Dinner Story, For Your Eyes Only, Leiningen Versus the Ants, The Case of the Irate Witness and The Nine Billion Names of God. [from copyright page].