The Frankenstein Reader (Anthology)

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Publication: The Frankenstein ReaderPublication: The Frankenstein Reader Publication Record # 40194 [Edit] Editors: Calvin Beck
Date: 1962-00-00
Catalog ID: F680
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Price: $0.50
Pages: 159
Format: pb?
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Container Title: The Frankenstein Reader • anthology by Calvin Thomas Beck [as by Calvin Beck] Cover: Richard Powers
Notes: No printing or edition stated.
OCLC: 4315348
“presented by the publishers of The Castle of Frankenstein.” (OCLC)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
16 • The Four-Fifteen Express • (1866) • novelette by Amelia B. Edwards
40 • Passeur • (1897) • short story by Robert W. Chambers
45 • The Isle of Voices • (1893) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
66 • The Ghost of Fear • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Red Room)
76 • The Trial for Murder • (1865) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt)
88 • The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
98 • The Thing in the Hall • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
110 • A Pair of Hands • (1934) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch] 123 • The Ghost Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)
134 • On the Staircase • (1913) • novelette by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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