Creeps by night : chills and thrills / selected by Dashiell Hammett.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Other Authors: Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961 (Compiler)
Language:English
Published: Cleveland ; New York : World Publishing Company, [1944]
Edition:Forum books edition.
Series:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Subjects:
Horror tales, American.
Horror fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Short stories.
Genre:
Horror fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Short stories.
Local Note:
MSU: Gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: In dust jacket.
Physical Description:525 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Dashiell Hammett
  • A bone for Emily / William Faulkner
  • Green thoughts / John Collier
  • The ghost of Alexander Perks, A.B. / Robert Dean Frisbie
  • The house / Andre Maurois
  • The kill / Peter Flaming
  • Ten o'clock / Philip MacDonald
  • The spider / Hanns Heinz Ewers
  • Breakdown / L.A.G. Strong
  • The witch's vengeance / W.B. Seabrook
  • The rat / S. Fowler Wright
  • Faith, hope and charity / Irvin S. Cobb
  • Mr Arcularis / Conrad Aiken
  • The music of Erich Zann / H.P. Lovecraft
  • The strange case of Mrs. Arkwright / Harold Dearden
  • The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benet
  • The red brain / Donald Wandrei
  • The phantom bus / W. Elwyn Backus
  • Beyond the door / Paul Suter
  • Perchance to dream / Michael Joyce
  • A visitor from Egypt / Frank Belknapp Long.