first published 1960

contents:
Oscar Cook, ‘Piece-meal’
George Langelaan, ‘The Fly’
William Sansom, ‘The Vertical Ladder’
HG Wells, ‘Pollock and the Porroh Man’
Guy Preston, ‘The Inn’
Bram Stoker, ‘The Judge’s House’
Stanley Ellin, ‘The Speciality of the House’
Agatha Christie, ‘The Last Séance’
Vernon Routh, ‘The Black Creator’
Stephen Hall, ‘By One, By Two and By Three’
Oscar Cook, ‘Boomerang’
Philip Macdonald, ‘Our Feathered Friends’
Geoffrey Household, ‘Taboo’
Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Black Cat’
Carl Stephenson, ‘Leiningen Versus the Ants’