John Gawsworth – Thrills
Posted by demonik on June 3, 2008
John Gawsworth (ed.) – Thrills (Associated Newspapers, 1936)
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Twenty Specially Selected New Stories Of Crime, Mystery And Horror
Twelve illustrations by Norman Keene
Oswell Blakeston – The Mysterious Fluid
Thomas Burke – The Golden Gong
Charles Duff – The Haunted Bungalow
John Gawsworth – How It Happened
Herbert de Hamel – The Unnecessary Undoing Of Mr. Purgle
Kenneth Hare – Twopence For The Toll
Edgar Jepson – The Murder At The Fossicker’s Club
Edgar Jepson – An Accident
Philip Lindsay – Act Of God
John Lindsey – Blackmail
Anthony M. Ludovici – A Modern Delilah
G. R. Malloch – The Vicar’s Crime
Francis Marsden – Madelane
E. H. W. Meyerstein – The Divorce
R. Edison Page – Fifty Thousand Pounds
R. Edison Page – The Kidnapped Collector
M. P. Shiel & Fytton Armstrong – A Case For Deduction
Simon – The Count
L. A. G. Strong – The Shop On The Corner
E. H. Visiak – The Cutting
Thanks to Marijke van Duyn for the contents and cover scan!
Dan said
Hi,
Thanks for posting the contents of these anthologies, invaluable resource for those interested. Next comes a cheeky question: could you copy the Visiak stories and mail them to me in PDF? Hard to find stories by him. These anthologies are doorstops, weight-wise, I understand and I don’t relish the surely prohibitive shipping price (I’m cheap). Visiak’s “Medusa” is crazy expensive (but I may give up and shell out yet) and the description of it by Karl Edward Wagner in 100 Best Horror Books is agonizingly tantalizing. He says, to paraphrase, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson by way of William Burroughs’ everyone needs to read it obviously!
Cheers, Dan