TALES WITH A THRILL
Chosen and opted by Wojciech Zukrowski and Tadeusz Malanowski, Maxim Lieber
Volumes I-II [complete].
T. I:
Alexander Pushkin - The Coffin Maker
Edgar Allan Poe - The Annihilation of the House of Usher
Charles Dickens - The Tale of the Comedian's Uncle
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Green Tea
Theodor Dostoevsky - Bobok, Joseph Conrad - Inn "Under the Two Witches"
William Wymark Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
Robert Smith Hichens - Love and Professor Guldea
Edward Lucas White - Lucundu
Herbert George Wells - The Wicket in the Wall
Edward Frederic Benson - Where Not Even a Bird Sings
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) - The Marten
Oliver Onions - The Alluring Beauty
Maurice Renard - The Frog
Alfred Edgar Coppard - Adam
Eve and the... what in the world?
Guillaume Apollinaire - The Disappearance of Honorius Subrac
William F. Harvey - August Heat
Charles Capek - Footsteps
Dorothy Leigh Sayers - Bury the Cat
William Faulkner - Flowers for Emilia
A.J. Alan - Braid
John Steinbeck - The Strange Affair on M Avenue.
T. II- Night Two:
Stories:
The Bagpiper's Tale - Walter Scott
Peter Rugg - William Austin
The Phantom Fiancé - Washington Irving
Ghosts and Men - Edward Bulwery-Lytton
Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Harthorne
The Well and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
The Murder Trial - Charles Collins and Charles Dickens
The Shrill Bed - Wilkie Collins
What was that? - Fitz-James O'Brien
The Library Window - Margaret Ollphant
Tales of the Force of Negative Gravity - Frank R. Stockton
The Three Strangers - Thomas Hardy
The Man and the Serpent - Ambrose Bierce
Sir Edmund Orme - Henry James
Markheim - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Shrieking Skull - F. Marion Crawford
Amour Dure - Veron Lee
Il Conte - Joseph Conrad
Charms - Montague Rhodes James
Later - Edith Wharton
Of the Man Who Outsmarted - Edward Frederic Benson
The Open Door - Hector Hugh Munro
Published by ISKRY 1957-60, pp. 461 + 601
First edition!
PUBLISHER'S SOFTCOVER
Condition DB/ minor folds and abrasions of covers, spine edge tears, yellowing of pages, in one volume heavy discoloration of paper in margins of initial pages [dampstain?], despite minor defects piece worth attention
