The 5th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories

Mary Danby Daphne du Maurier Ray Bradbury William Sansom Henry Kuttner Shirley Jackson H. G. Wells Edgar Allan Poe Roald Dahl Monica Dickens R. Chetwynd-Hayes W. W. Jacobs Guy de Maupassant E. F. Benson Alfred McLelland Burrage First published 1972

About this book

Contents:

The Blue Lenses by Daphne du Maurier The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner Lottery by Shirley Jackson The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells Tale of the Ragged Mountains by Edgar Allen Poe Georgy Porgy by Roald Dahl To Reach The Sea by Monica Dickens The Monster by R. Chetwynd-Hayes His Brother’s Keeper by W. W. Jacobs The Hand by Guy de Maupassant Mrs. Amsworth by E. F. Benson The Waxwork by A. M. Burrage Quid Pro Quo by Mary Danby

Subjects

  • abstinence
  • american literature
  • black spot
  • cannibalism
  • celibacy
  • english nursery rhymes
  • family
  • fiction
  • horror stories
  • horror tales
  • involuntary commitment
  • lotteries
  • manners and customs
  • mob mentality
  • neurosis
  • psychiatrists
  • rites and ceremonies
  • rules
  • sadism
  • scapegoat
  • seduction
  • sexual repression
  • short story
  • soft drinks
  • spinsters
  • stoning
  • summer houses
  • vicars
  • villages