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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
Anthology of 70 short-short horror stories, poems and cartoons.
Contents:
- In the Ruins by Roald Dahl
- Randolf’s Party by John Lennon
- Red by Richard Christian Matheson
- A Wife Driven Insane by Husband Tickling Her Feet Anonymous
- Moonlight Sonata by Alexander Woollcott
- untitled ("I’ve Just Acquired Some Shrunken Heads...") by Alistair Sampson
- untitled cartoon by Gahan Wilson
- Meeting with a Double by George D. Painter
- John Mortonson’s Funeral by Ambrose Bierce
- The Skeleton at the Feast by E. H. Visiak
- untitled [from The Vampire] by Ornella Volta
- Cousin Jane by Colin West
- untitled ("'I Have a Man at Last,' She Cried...") by Alistair Sampson
- Out of the Country by Jeffry Scott
- Mousetrap by Stephen Gallagher
- Singular Method of Execution Anonymous
- The Model Wife by Robert Bloch
- Good Dog Nigel by John Lennon
- Dog, Cat, and Baby by Joe R. Lansdale
- untitled ("The Nun is fearfully bedevilled...") by Edward Gorey
- Mason’s Life by Kingsley Amis
- The Dorking Thigh by William Plomer
- Henri Blot [from The Vampire] by Ornella Volta
- Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens
- untitled ("In a dear little vine covered cottage...") by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Chompers by Joe R. Lansdale
- Varney the Vampire [from Varney the Vampyre] by James Malcolm Rymer
- Grocery List by Gina Haldane
- Mujina by Lafcadio Hearn
- At Parting by Raymond Chandler
- untitled cartoon by Gahan Wilson
- Love at First Sight by Richard Middleton
- The Vampire by W. R. Hodder
- Singular Attempt at Suicide Anonymous
- One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce
- The Edinburgh Landlady by Aubrey Davidson
- Delighted Deb’s Lament by Alistair Sampson
- Sergeant Bertrand [from The Vampire] by Ornella Volta
- The Near Departed by Richard Matheson
- A Warning for Certain Victorian Ladies by Edward Lauterbach
- A Surprise for Little Bobby by John Lennon
- Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
- A Functional Proof of Immortality by Edward Bryant
- My Dear How Dead You Look and Yet You Sweetly Sing by Priscilla Marron
- Horrible Cannibalism Anonymous
- Nightmare in Red by Fredric Brown
- Essay by Alistair Sampson
- American Gothic by M. A. Lyon
- The Corpse Rises by Liao Chai
- Revival Meeting by Dannie Plachta
- Anything They Can Do... by Alphonse Allais
- The Look of Death [from Le Grand Ecart] by Jean Cocteau
- untitled cartoon by Gahan Wilson
- Pierre Torture by Frederic Boutet
- untitled ("Dear, oh dear. These breasts of mine...") by Tommaso Landolfi
- A Horrible Discovery Anonymous
- The Midnight Lover by Gerald Atkins
- A Tale the English used to Tell by K. C. Mann
- Before the Law by Franz Kafka
- Hell Hath No— by Gloria Orlick
- The Five Boons of Life by Mark Twain
- Mass Without Voices by Arthur L. Samuels
- Lord Dufferin’s Story Anonymous
- Deathbed by Richard Christian Matheson
- 'Magdalene' by W.B. Yeats
- Thang by Martin Gardner
- Shutting a Woman’s Head in a Box Anonymous
- A Lot to Learn by Robert T. Kurosaka
- Angel’s Exchange by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
- How to Write the Suicide Note by Derek Pell
Original title: The Little Book of Horrors
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ General
The following works are contained within this one: Captain Murderer (1860) [Short Story] Author: Charles Dickens
Five Boons of Life, the (1902) [Short Story] Author: Mark Twain
Before the Law (1916) [Short Story] Author: Franz Kafka
Angel's Exchange (1984) [Short Story] Author: Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Dog, Cat, and Baby (1987) [Short Story] Author: Joe R. Lansdale
Near Departed, the (1987) [Short Story] Author: Richard Matheson
Deathbed (1987) [Short Story] Author: Richard Christian Matheson
Functional Proof of Immortality, a (1988) [Short Story] Author: Ed Bryant
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