Each story in Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror is an example of the work of an outstanding author--from Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to such modern masters as Agatha Christie, Ross Macdonald, Georges Simenon and a score of other famous names. Appearing in these pages are the world's greatest fictional detectives--Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, James Bond, Lew Archer, Ellery Queen, Inspector Maigret and Perry Mason, all at work on some of their more baffling and fascinating cases.

Contents:
THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
THE TURN OF THE TIDE / C. S Forester
THE SUMMER PEOPLE / Shirley Jackson
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO / Edgar Allan Poe
THE THIRD FLOOR FLAT / Agatha Christie
THE MAN WHO LIKED DICKENS / Evelyn Waugh
WAS IT A DREAM / Guy de Maupassant
THE FOURTH MAN / John Russell
THE WENDIGO / Algernon Blackwood
THE TOUCH OF NUTMEG MAKES IT / John Collier
THE ABSENCE OF MR. GLASS / G. K. Chesterton
MIRIAM / Truman capote
THE LOG OF THE EVENING STAR / Alfred Noyes
CASTING THE RUNES / M. R. James
MAN FROM THE SOUTH / Roald Dahl
THE WHOLE TOWNS SLEEPING / Ray Bradbury
THE ARROW OF GOD / Leslie Charteris
THE TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH / Lord Dunsany
THE GETTYSBURG BUGLE / Ellery Queen
The Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce
DON'T LOOK NOW / Daphne du Maurier
THE HANDS OF MR. OTITRMOLE / Thomas Burke
AN ALPINE DIVORCE / Robert Barr
THE INCAUTIOUS BURGLAR / John Dickson Carr
THANATOS PALACE HOTEL / André Maurois
THE GHOST.SHIP / Richard Middleton
THE RATS IN THE WALLS / H. P. Lovecraft
AETER.DINNER STORY / William Irish
ANOTHER SOLUTION j Gilbert Highet
THE WAXWORK / A. M. Burrage
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY / Ian Fleming
THE FOGHORN / Gertrude Atherton
LEININGEN VERSUS THE ANTS / c-arl. Stephenson
THE INTERRUPTION / W. W. Jacobs
AN INVITATION TO THE HUNT / George Hitchcock
THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT / William Hope Hodgson
MIDNIGHT BLUE / Ross Macdonald
THE REIVRN OF IMRAY / Rudyard Kipling
JOURNEY BACKWARD INTO TIME / Georges Simenon
THE MOVIE PEOPLE / Robert Bloch
BROKER'S SPECIAL / Stanley Ellin
THE SEA RAIDERS / H. G. Wells
THE CASE OF THE IRATE WITNTESS / Erie Stanley Gardner
SREDNI VASHTAR / Saki (H. H. Munro)
THE NINE BILLION NAMES or GOD / Arthur C. Clarke