- Publication: Masters of the Macabre: The Best of the 20th CenturyPublication Record # 286148
- Editor: Peter Haining
- Date: 1993-04-00
- ISBN: 0-7090-5068-2 [978-0-7090-5068-1]
- Publisher: Robert Hale
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Price: £7.99?£: UK pound
- Pages: 256
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Format: tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
Anthology Title:
Masters of the Macabre: The Best of the 20th Century • anthology by
Peter Haining
(variant of The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers 1972)
Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)
- Miriam • (1945) • short story by Truman Capote
- Introduction (The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers) • (1972) • essay by Peter Haining
- Inferiority Complex • (1955) • short story by Evan Hunter
- Foreword (The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers) • (1972) • essay by Kingsley Amis
- Exterminator • (1972) • short story by William S. Burroughs [as by William Burroughs]
- Earth to Earth • (1955) • short story by Robert Graves
- During the Jurassic • (1966) • short story by John Updike
- Animals or Human Beings • (1955) • short story by Angus Wilson
- All But Empty • (1947) • short story by Graham Greene
- A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
- A Man from Glasgow • (1944) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham [as by Somerset Maugham]
- "Man Overboard!" • (1899) • short story by Winston S. Churchill [as by Winston Churchill]
- Something Strange • (1960) • short story by Kingsley Amis
- The Affair at 7 Rue de M— • (1955) • short story by John Steinbeck
- The Bronze Door • (1939) • novelette by Raymond Chandler
- The Call of Wings • (1933) • short story by Agatha Christie
- The Cherries • (1936) • short story by Lawrence Durrell
- The Dance • (1926) • short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Grey Ones • (1953) • short story by J. B. Priestley
- The Man Who Didn't Ask Why • (1957) • short story by C. S. Forester
- A Man Who Had No Eyes • (1931) • short story by MacKinlay Kantor
- The Post-Mortem Murder • (1921) • novelette by Sinclair Lewis
- The Snail Watcher • (1964) • short story by Patricia Highsmith
- The Terrible Answer • (1950) • short story by Paul Gallico
- Timber • (1920) • short story by John Galsworthy
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