Great Horror Stories: Various Authors

First published in 1936 as The Great Book Of Thrillers - but don't let a bit of vintage deter you from dipping into this collection of chillers from the original maestros of mayhem. There's names here not normally associated with horror, or even with suspense - yet here are their offerings from literally beyond the grave. Each has a mini-synopsis, but certainly not enough to spoil the story. In this volume: H2, Etc, A.J. Alan; The Smell In The Library, Michael Arlen; The Man In The Bell, W.E. Aytoun; The Mysterious Mansion, Honoré de Balzac; The Folding Doors, Marjorie Bowen; The Lady of Glenwith Grange, Wilkie Collins; The New Sun, J.S. Fletcher; Hot Water, Val Gielgud; The Island, L.P. Hartley; Edward Randolph's Portrait, Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Spectre Bridegroom, Washington Irvine; The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, Edgar Allan Poe; The Tarn, Hugh Walpole; The Resurrectionist, Samuel Warden; The Blue Room, Prosper Mérimée; The Café of Terror, Phillips Oppenheim; The Avenging Chance, Anthony Berkeley; A Lesson in Crime, G.D.H. and M. Cole; Mr Pemberton's Commission, Freeman Wills Crofts; Who KilledCastelvetri? Gilbert Frankau; The Aluminium Dagger, Austin Freedman; The Gylston Slander, Herbert Jenkins; Arsène Lupin In Prison, Maurice LeBlanc; The Fenchurch Street Mystery, Baroness Orczy; Peacock House, Eden Phillpotts; The Vanishing Diamond, John Rhode; Staley Fleming's Hallucination, Ambrose Bierce; The Italian's Story, Catherine Crowe; The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley, Daniel Defoe; To Be Taken With A Grain of Salt, Charles Dickens; ThePhantom Coach, Amelia B. Edwards; Madam Crowl's Ghost, Sheridan Le Fanu; Black Coffee, Jeffery Farnol; The Black Ferry, John Galt; The DreamlandBride, Théophile Gautier; The Dilemma of Phadri, Gerald Griffin; Mary Burnet, James Hogg; The Three Sisters, W.W. Jacobs; The Doctor's Ghost, Norman Macleod; Mr Kempe, Walter De La Mare; The Tapestried Chamber, Sir Walter Scott; The Frontier Guards, H.Russell Wakefield; The Red Room, H.G. Wells; The Sphinx Without A Secret, Oscar Wilde; The Gardener, E.F. Benson; A Spanish Ghost Story, Anonymous. With fantastical illustrations by M. Suart, J.S. Goodall, Vernon Smith, Ernest Wallcousins, F.G. Moorson, Alfred Sindall, Charles De Mornay, Norman Keene, Fairbairn, Reginald Mount and Eric Winter.