GREAT SHORT TALES OF
MYSTERY
AND
TERROR

Muffled footsteps sounding through the fog as a killer stalks his unsuspecting victim, a creaky door that opens onto a chamber of horrors, a detective's brilliant deductions from a set of incomprehensible clues--these are the images of mystery and terror that never fail to enthrall us.
What could be more exciting than finding forty-five stories in one volume built around the single ingredient of suspense?
   In GREAT SHORT TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR you will discover some of the most famous stories of crime and detection ever written, featuring many of the world's most fascinating detectives. Here, as well, are short masterpieces of the macabre and the supernatural, all calculated to send a shiver down your spine. If you love a mystery-and who doesn't?-this collection of great yarns spun by some of our best storytellers is the perfect addition to your bookshelf.
   Each story in GREAT SHORT TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR is a top example of the work of an outstanding author-from Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to such modern masters as Agatha Christie, Ross Macdonald, Georges Simenon and a score of other famous names.
   Appearing in these pages are the world's greatest fictional detectives-Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, James Bond, Lew Archer, Ellery Queen, Inspector Maigret and Perry Mason, all at work on some of their more baffling and fascinating cases.
   Many of the finest and most terrifying tales of terror are also to be found in this volume. it includes Thomas Burke's classic, The Hands of Mr. Ottermole, of which Ellery Queen has said, "No finer crime story has ever been written, period." Here also are Roald Dahl's bizarre Man from the South, H. P. Lovecraft's diabolic The Rats in the Walls, and Carl Stephenson's menacing, unforgettable tale, Leiningen Versus the Ants, which pits one man against a voracious army of carnivorous ants in tropical South America.
   No matter that your taste-whether it's for whodunits or the supernatural or even a touch of science fiction-you'll find what you like in this new book, the latest in a distinguished line of short-story anthologies from the editors of Reader's Digest Condensed Books.

• The Red-Headed League - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Turn of the Tide - C. S. Forester
• The Summer People - Shirley Jackson
• The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
• The Third Floor Flat - Agatha Christie
• The Man Who Liked Dickens - Evelyn Waugh
• Was it a Dream? - Guy de Maupassant
• The Fourth Man - John Russell
• The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood
• The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It - John Collier
• The Absence of Mr. Glass - G. K. Chesterton
• Miriam - Truman Capote
• The Log of the Evening Star - Alfred Noyes
• Casting the Runes - M. R. James
• Man From the South - Roald Dahl
• The Whole Town's Sleeping - Ray Bradbury
• The Arrow of God - Leslie Charteris
• The Two Bottles of Relish - Lord Dunsany
• The Gettysburg Bugle - Ellery Queen
• The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce
• Don't Look Now - Daphne de Maurier
• The Hands of Mr. Ottermole - Thomas Burke
• An Alpine Divorce - Robert Barr
• The Incautious Burglar - John Dickson Carr
• Thanatos Palace Hotel - Andre Maurois
• The Ghost-Ship - Richard Middleton
• The Rats in the Walls - H. P. Lovecraft
• After-Dinner Story - William Irish
• Another Solution - Gilbert Highet
• The Waxwork - A. M. Burrage
• For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming
• The Foghorn - Gertrude Atherton
• Leiningen Versus the Ants - Carl Stephenson
• The Interruption - W. W. Jacobs
• An Invitation to the Hunt - George Hitchcock
• The Voice in the Night - William Hope Hodgson
• Midnight Blue - Ross Macdonald
• The Return of Imray - Rudyard Kipling
• Journey Backward into Time - Georges Simenon
• The Movie People - Robert Bloch
• Broker's Special - Stanley Ellin
• The Sea Raiders - H. G. Wells
• The Case of the Irate Witness - Erle Stanley Gardner
• Sredni Vashtar - Saki (H. H. Munro)
• The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C. Clarke