Dennis Wheatley – A Century Of Horror Stories

Dennis Wheatley (ed.) – A Century Of Horror Stories (Hutchinson, 1935)

Detail from the cover

Introduction – Dennis Wheatley

Algernon Blackwood – Ancient Sorceries
H. T. W. Bousfield – The Unknown Island
Margaret Irwin – The Earlier Service
Guy Endore – Lazarus Returns
L. A. G. Strong – Breakdown
Evelyn Waugh – The Man Who Liked Dickens
Mrs. Oliphant – The Open Door
Augustus Muir – The Reptile
Saki – The Music On The Hill
F. Tennyson Jesse – The Canary
Arthur Machen – The Great God Pan
H. G. Wells – The Red Room
R. H. Barham – The Leech Of Folkestone
Ex Private X (A. M. Burrage) – Smee
Ex Private X (A. M. Burrage) – One Who Saw
Francis Isles – Dark Journey
E. W. Hornung – The Fate Of Faustina
Martin Armstrong – The Pipe-Smoker
William Younger – The Angelus
Edgar Allan Poe – The Case Of M. Valdemar
Michael Joseph – A Glass Of Milk
Blanche Bane Kuder – From What Strange Land
Honore de Balzac – El Verdugo
Richard Hughes – Poor Man’s Inn
E. M. Winch – A La Tartare
Sir Hugh Clifford – The Ghoul
F. Marion Crawford – The Dead Smile
T. F. Powys – The House With The Echo
A. E. Coppard – Arabesque: The Mouse
Alec Waugh – The Last Chukka
John Metcalfe – Mr. Meldrum’s Mania
Wilkie Collins – A Terribly Strange Bed
Theodore Drieser – The Hand
Thomas Burke – The Bird
M. R. James – The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas
Guy de Maupassant – Vendetta
Ambrose Bierce – An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
James Hilton – The Mallet
Hugh Walpole – The Silver Mask
Bram Stoker – The Judges House
Mark Channing – The Feet
Louis Golding – The Call Of The Hand
Bernard Bromage – The House
Walter De La Mare – All Hallows
C. E. Montague – The First Blood Sweep
John Russell – The Fourth Man
John Russell – The Price Of The Head
John Russell – The Lost God
William Hope Hodgson – The Island Of The Ud
William Hope Hodgson – The Whistling Room
William Hope Hodgson – The Derelict
Dennis Wheatley – The Snake

1024 pages. They don’t make ’em like this any more …
Wheatley reproduced several of the stories over two Arrow paperbacks, “Shafts Of Fear” and “Quiver Of Horror” for Arrow in 1964, adding two new Charles Birkin stories and his own A Life For A Life.