"The River Bed", short story by B. Seshadri.
"Mandragora", short story by Rosemary Timperley.
"Chatterbox", short story by Alex White.
"Special Reserve '75", short story by Harry E. Turner.
"Fire Trap", short story by Rosemary Timperley.
"Flies", short story by John H. Snellings. First published in "The Second Bedside Book of Strange Stories".
"Masks", short story by J. J. Cromby.
"The Bath", short story by Trustin Fortune.
"Time to Get Up", short story by Nicholas Royle.
"An Immaculate Conception", short story by B. Seshadri.
"Death of a Council Worker", short story by Ian C. Strachan.
"Micro-Process", short story by Ralph Noyes as by Ralph Norton Noyes.
"The Loft", short story by John H. Snellings.
"No Mark of Respect", short story by Oscar Holmes.
"Firework Night", short story by St. John Bird.
"Silent War", short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
"Henry and the Beautiful People", short story by Alan Temperley.
mixed original and reprint anthology of sixteen short stories
bar-code number truncated by too-small field: 9780330289443 90000
pan books first printing, first edition
cover art by steve crisp (credited)
cover price £1.95
176pp? including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
the "new" editor of the series, taking over after herbert van thal's death, clarence (arthur edward) paget, was the commissioning editor originally responsible for launching it with herbert van thal as its editor, and became pan books' or pan macmillan's editorial director (fiction).
#1: ''the pan book of horror stories'' ed. herbert van thal (1959), q.v. for series listing, and links.