- Publication: Stories of Surprise and WonderPublication Record # 704178
- Editor: Robert R. Potter
- Date: 1979-00-00
- ISBN: 0-87065-280-X [978-0-87065-280-6]
- Publisher: Globe Book Company
- Pages: x+182
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Format: pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Cover: Stories of Surprise and Wonder by Karin Kretschmann
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Notes: Maurois' The House is translated by Adrienne Foulke. The reversible picture on page viii is mistakenly listed as from 1846, instead of 1935. Contains the following non-genre stories: Frederick Laing-The Eye Catcher (originally published as The Beau Catcher in the July 8, 1944 edition of Collier's Magazine. Anton Chekhov-The Bet (date of translation & translator unknown)
Anthology Title:
Stories of Surprise and Wonder • juvenile • anthology by
Robert Potter
[as by Robert R. Potter]
Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)
- viii • Surprise and Wonder • essay by uncredited
- 23 • A Tale of Terror • essay by Paul Louis Courier
- 31 • The Last Leaf • non-genre • (1907) • short story by O. Henry
- 43 • Only the Guilty Run • (1955) • short story by M. E. Kerr [as by Vin Packer]
- 63 • The Mansion of the Dead • (1973) • short fiction by Jean Anderson
- 71 • Here It Is! • short story by Donna Kaczmarsyk
- 79 • The Girl in the Lavender Dress • essay by Maureen Scott
- 91 • Haunted New England: The Ghastly Leg • (1972) • essay by Mary Bolte
- 92 • Haunted New England: Captain Chase • (1972) • essay by Mary Bolte
- 94 • Haunted New England: Frozen Citizens • (1972) • essay by Mary Bolte
- 99 • In a Dim Room • [Jorkens] • (1945) • short story by Lord Dunsany
- 107 • The Faithful Ghost • (1891) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
- 115 • The House • (1967) • short story by André Maurois (trans. of La maison 1931)
- 123 • The King o' the Cats • (1894) • short story by Joseph Jacobs
- 131 • Mr. Fox • (1890) • short story by Joseph Jacobs
- 139 • The Story of an Hour • short story by Kate Chopin (variant of The Dream of an Hour 1894)
- 147 • The Child Watcher • (1958) • short story by Ernest Harrison
- 155 • Doctor's Orders • non-genre • (1959) • short story by John F. Suter
- 163 • Sorry, Wrong Number (play) • (1943) • short fiction by Lucille Fletcher
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