The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories

Overview:

  • Title: The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 1934
  • Publisher: Hutchinson
  • Price: 3/6
  • Pages: 1020
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Man-Size in Marble
  • Notes: Contents from The Supernatural Index. The following non-genre stories by authors below threshold have not been indexed:
    • 29 • The Room on the Fourth Floor • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Ralph Straus
    • 159 • Query • non-genre • (1931) • short story by Austin J. Small [as by Seamark]
    • 231 • The Big Drum • non-genre • (1925) • short story by William Gerhardi
    • 267 • My Adventure at Chiselhurst • non-genre • (1932) • short story by A. J. Alan
    • 301 • The Song of Ho Ling • non-genre • (1921) • short story by Thomas Burke
    • 453 • The Punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the Builder • non-genre • (1856) • short story by George Meredith
    • 521 • Squirrel in a Cage • non-genre • (1930) • short story by E. M. Delafield
    • 625 • A Man of Letters • non-genre • (1921) • short story by Stacy Aumonier
    • 639 • Henry • non-genre • (1928) • short story by Phyllis Bottome
    • 661 • Romanoff • non-genre • short story by Ethel Mannin
    • 669 • Glasshouses • non-genre • short story by Marthe McKenna
    • 693 • The Dust That Was Barren • non-genre • short story by P. C. Wren
    • 705 • Balalaika • non-genre • (1926) • short story by Francis Brett Young
    • 747 • The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker • non-genre • (1926) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
    • 815 • I Pagliacci • non-genre • (1931) • short story by R. H. Mottram
    • 849 • Nor the Jury • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Selwyn Jepson
    Note to future verifiers: Please determine whether or not the following stories are speculative (all others have been checked): "Mary Ansell," "Chailey's Folly," "Crab-Apple Harvest;"' "Chinese Girl,"' "Sunset Woman," "Portrait of a Queen," " The Shade of Peterbee," "The Two Horns," "An Experiment with Blood," "The De Medici Cup," "High Tide," "Primula," "The House on Big Faraway," and "If a Man Might Tarry." Roman numerals are used for contents pages (v-xi) with the first numbered page being 16.