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Editor:Christine Bernard
Title:The Second Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
Publisher:  Fontana
Country:UK
Date:Aug 1974
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
ISBN-10:0006121063
Cat#:2106
First Published:  1967
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David Whiteley
1st Dec 2021
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All stories are reprints except "The Spider" Others First published as follows:

"The Spider", novelette by Elizabeth Walter. First published Here.
"The Book", short story by Margaret Irwin. First published in The London Mercury, September 1930.
"Something Strange", short story by Kingsley Amis. First published in The Spectator, November 25, 1960.
"Satan's Circus", short story by Lady Eleanor Smith, as by Eleanor Smith. First published in Britannia and Eve vol 2 No. 6, June 1930.
"The Photograph", short fiction by Nigel Kneale. First published in. "Tomato Cain and Other Stories". (1949).
"The Beast with Five Fingers", novelette by William Fryer Harvey, as by W. F. Harvey. First published in The New Decameron. (1919).
"As Gay As Cheese", short story by Joan Aiken.. First published in Argosy (UK),vol XVII, No. 12. December 1956.
"The Hound of Death", short story by Agatha Christie.. First published in "The Hound of Death and Other Stories". (1934).
"Judith", short story by Hjalmar Bergman (trans. of Judith) (1915). First English publication in "The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories". (1934).
"The Victim", novelette by May Sinclair.. First published in The Criterion, October 1922.
"The House on Big Faraway", short story by Norman Matson. First published in The (London) Evening Standard, June 12, 1934, as "The Woman in Scarlet Stockings".
"The Killing Bottle", novelette by L. P. Hartley . First published in "The Black Cap". (1927), as "The Killing-Bottle".
 

 
ppint.
1st Jul 2020
 reprint anthology containing eight short stories and four novelettes

7th impression

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 30p, australia 95c, new zealand 90c, canada $1.25
224pp. including 8pp. titles, indica etc, end 3pp. advertising


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