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A Century of Creepy Stories

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First published 1934
Publisher Hutchinson
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xi+1178
Price 3/6

Notes

  • Contents from The Supernatural Index.
  • Hugh Walpole has sometimes been attributed editorship of this epic - Vault Of Evil.
  • Two Trifles on page 269 is the stories The Ether-Hogs and The Mortal.

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
A Century of Creepy Stories 1971 Books for Libraries Press Hardcover Anthology xi+1178

Page Title Author(s) Type
15 The Snow Hugh Walpole Short Story
25 The Tarn Hugh Walpole Short Story
39 A Little Ghost Hugh Walpole Short Story
53 Mrs. Lunt Sir Hugh Walpole Short Story
69 The Islington Mystery Arthur Machen Short Story
81 The Cosy Room Arthur Machen Short Story
87 Opening the Door Arthur Machen Short Story
101 Munitions of War Arthur Machen Short Story
107 The Red Turret Flavia Richardson Short Story
119 When Glister Walked Oscar Cook Short Story
137 Si Urag of the Tail Oscar Cook Short Story
153 The Great White Fear Oscar Cook Short Story
169 Boomerang Oscar Cook Short Story
181 The Apple Tree Elizabeth Bowen Short Story
190 Telling Elizabeth Bowen Short Story
201 The Cat Jumps Elizabeth Bowen Short Story
213 Crewe Walter de la Mare Novelette
237 A Recluse Walter de la Mare Novelette
269 Two Trifles Oliver Onions Short Story
281 The Smile of Karen Oliver Onions Novelette
317 "John Gladwin Says ..." Oliver Onions Short Story
331 The Hanging of Alfred Wadham E. F. Benson Short Story
347 As in a Glass Dimly Shane Leslie Short Story
359 The Hospital Nurse Shane Leslie Short Story
369 The Lord-in-Waiting Shane Leslie Short Story
389 A Considerable Murder Barry Pain Short Story
401 The Lovely Voice Cynthia Asquith Novelette
419 The Playfellow Cynthia Asquith Novelette
443 "God Grante That She Lye Stille" Cynthia Asquith Novelette
475 The Corner Shop Cynthia Asquith Short Story
493 Shall We Join the Ladies? J. M. Barrie Short Story
513 The Rocking-Horse Winner D. H. Lawrence Short Story
529 The Lovely Lady D. H. Lawrence Novelette
551 Rats M. R. James Short Story
559 The Killing-Bottle L. P. Hartley Novelette
597 The Travelling Grave L. P. Hartley Novelette
619 A Visitor from Down Under L. P. Hartley Short Story
637 The Cotillon L. P. Hartley Short Story
659 The Prince W. B. Maxwell Short Story
665 The Last Man In W. B. Maxwell Short Story
685 Dispossession C. H. B. Kitchin Short Story
703 Beauty and the Beast C. H. B. Kitchin Novelette
729 Those Whom the Gods Love Hilda Hughes Short Story
737 The Birthright Hilda Hughes Short Story
749 The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain Charles Dickens Novella
837 The Villa Désirée May Sinclair Short Story
851 The Duenna Mrs. Belloc Lowndes Short Story
864 The Unbolted Door Mrs. Belloc Lowndes Short Story
873 The Apparition of Mrs. Veal Daniel Defoe Short Story
881 The Lost Tragedy Denis Mackail Short Story
899 Spinster's Rest Clemence Dane Novelette
925 Circumstantial Evidence Edgar Wallace Short Story
941 A Descent Into the Maelström Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
957 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Novelette
975 The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
987 Twelve O'Clock Charles Whibley Short Story
995 The Amorous Ghost Enid Bagnold Short Story
1003 Pargiton and Harby Desmond MacCarthy Short Story
1019 The Country of the Blind H. G. Wells Novelette
1045 The Spectre Bridegroom Washington Irving Short Story
1061 Mr. Tallent's Ghost Mary Webb Short Story
1073 The Buick Saloon Ann Bridge Short Story
1091 The Horns of the Bull W. S. Morrison Short Story
1107 The Man Who Came Back William Gerhardi Short Story
1113 Our Feathered Friends Philip MacDonald Short Story
1125 The Stranger Ambrose Bierce Short Story
1133 The Yellow Cat Michael Joseph Short Story
1145 My Adventure in Norfolk A. J. Alan Short Story
1155 The Mysterious Mansion Honoré de Balzac Short Story
1165 The Stranger Algernon Blackwood Short Story

Year Reviewer Publication
1983 Everett F. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction