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Modern Tales of Horror

Dashiell Hammett

First published 1932
Publisher Gollancz
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 448

Notes


18 stories with introduction by Dashiell Hammett These are 18 among the 21 stories in US collection Creeps by Night: Chills and Thrills, which were selected by Hammett from public nominations (see that parent collection). Unknown: whether Hammett made the cut from 21 or revised the introduction.

  • UK edition, 1st ed. this title This contains 18 of 21 stories in the 1931 US collection Creeps by Night. "First published July 1932; second impression July 1932."
  • OCLC 1869346 reports the second impression [same month] and provides a list of Contents 18 story titles and authors in the sequence below.
  • Contents' page numbers from Archive.org copy.