All stories are reprints except, "The Black Creator". All others First printed as follows:
"Piece-meal", short story by Oscar Cook. "By Daylight Only". (1929). (book 5 of the Not at Night series).
"The Fly", novelette by George Langelaan (trans. of La mouche). Playboy Vol 4 No. 6, June 1957.
"The Vertical Ladder", short story by William Sansom. "English Story, Fifth Series", (1944).
"Pollock and the Porroh Man", short story by H. G. Wells. New Budget May 23, 1895.
"The Inn", short story by Guy Preston. "Grim Death". (1932). (book 8 of the Not at Night series).
"The Judge's House", short story by Bram Stoker. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (Christmas annual Holly Leaves edition), December 5, 1891.
"The Speciality of the House", novelette by Stanley Ellin. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 11, No. 54, May 1948.
"The Last Séance", short story by Agatha Christie. Ghost Stories, November 1926 as "The Woman Who Stole a Ghost".
"The Black Creator", novelette by Vernon Routh. First published Here.
"By One, by Two, and by Three", novelette by Adrian Ross as by Stephen Hall. Temple Bar December 1887.
"Boomerang", short story by Oscar Cook. "Switch on the Light". (1931). (book 6 of the Not at Night series).
"Our Feathered Friends". short story by Philip MacDonald. "When Churchyards Yawn". (1931).
"Taboo", novelette by Geoffrey Household. "The Salvation of Pisco Gabar" (1938).
"The Black Cat", short story by Edgar Allan Poe. United States Saturday Post. (1843).
"Leiningen Versus the Ants", trans. of "Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen" (1937) novelette by Carl Stephenson. First published in English in Esquire December 1938.
pan books first printing, first edition and possibly near-identical early reprintings
cover art by s. r. (stephen richard) boldero (uncredited, art is signed)
cover price 3'6 (also indicated by X-prefix to cat#, and ''pan giant'' top front cover)
304pp? including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc.
#1: ''the pan book of horror stories'' ed. herbert van thal (1959), q.v. for series listing, and links.