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Editor:Christine Bernard
Title:Third Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
Publisher:  Fontana
Country:UK
Date:Mar 1968
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Cat#:1702
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David Whiteley
3rd Dec 2021
 Added covers and contents page.

All stories are reprints except "Green Fingers" and "Housebound", Others First published as follows:

"Green Fingers", short story by R. C. Cook. First published Here.
"The Speciality of the House", novelette by Stanley Ellin. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol 11, No. 54, May 1948.
"The Room in the Tower", short story by E. F. Benson. The Pall Mall Magazine Vol XLIX, No. 225, January 1912.
"The Academy", short story by David Ely. Playboy vol 12 No. 6, June 1965.
"Cut-Throat Farm", short story by J. D. Beresford. The Westminister Gazette, August 14, 1909.
"The Romance of Certain Old Clothes", short story by Henry James. The Atlantic Monthly, vol 21, No. 124, February 1868. Revised for his collection "A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales" 1875 and again for "Stories Revised" (1885). This is the 1885 version.
"Poison", short story by Roald Dahl. Collier’s vol 125, No. 22, June 3, 1950.
"Lucky's Grove", short story by H. Russell Wakefield, as by H. R. Wakefield. "The Clock Strikes Twelve". (1940).
"Housebound", short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes. First published Here.
"The Shuttered Room", novelette by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft. "The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces". (1959).
"At the End of the Passage", novelette by Rudyard Kipling. The Boston Herald, 20 July 1890.
 
 
ppint.
2nd Jul 2020
 the title on later printings with different cover art and redesigned covers may start with "the";
that on the copy examined does not. the title on some later editions uses the numerical form ''3rd''; so far as yr hmbl srppnt. is aware, the title page remained unchanged throughout.
 
 
ppint.
1st Jul 2020
 mixed? reprint & original anthology containing eleven stories (the first story appears to be original)

wm collins & sons fontana books imprint p/b first printing, first edition

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price 3/6 (no overseas territories' prices)
192pp. including 6pp. titles, indica etc, end 4pp. advertising


#1: ''the fontana book of great horror stories'' ed. christine bernard (1966), q.v. for series listing, and links.
 

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