A collection of sixteen stories of suspense by Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Louis Stevenson, Q. Patrick, Edmund Pearson, John Bartlow Martin, and other authors.

Some Things Dark and Dangerous.

Literature & Fiction

Kahn, Joan

Genre Fiction

Harpercollins Childrens Books

A selection of unnerving stories by Agatha Christie, Guy de Maupassant, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker, and other authors.

Some things strange and sinister

Harper&Row

Some Things Fierce and Fatal

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Bodley Head, Ltd.

Some Things Weird And Wicked: Twelve Stories To Chill Your Bones

Pantheon Books

Raymond Chandler has had many imitators but few equals in the field of crime fiction, where he remains one of the small elite who managed to elevate the whodunit to the level of serious literature. For devotees as well as for fortunate first readers, here is an exciting, carefully chosen collection of vintage Chandler, much of which has long been difficult to obtain. Included are the complete texts of two of his major Philip Marlowe novels -- The Little Sister and The Long Goodbye, four long short stories, and a self-revelatory essay on his two favorite topics, murder and the English language. Joan Kahn, leading expert on the art of suspense, provides an introduction to Chandler and the particular magic he continues to generate. Two of the stories chosen for inclusion have never before appeared in book form in the United States. These are Chandler's first published story and his last: "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," published in Black Mask in 1933, and "The Pencil," which appeared shortly after his death in 1959 and was his first short story in twenty years to feature private-eye Marlowe. All of these selections show Chandler as a master stylist and storyteller. His language is vigorous, corrosive, electrifying, glinting with sharp ironies and imaginative aphorisms. "Chandler," said Malcolm Muggeridge, "very cleverly developed a prose style whose very structure and rhythms are somehow violent. One hears the rat-tat-tat of a sub-machine gun in his sentences." Meticulously plotted with coiled-spring tension, the novels and stories create the authentic climate of malevolence and danger of the West Coast underworld. What they have in common, besides their sheer readability, is what Chandler himself called "the smell of fear."

The Midnight Raymond Chandler

Houghton, Mifflin Company

Gideon's Power

Popular Library

A collection of fourteen mystery stories by such well-known authors as Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, M.R. James, Isak Dinesen, and others

Handle With Care: Frightening Stories

Teen & Young Adult

William Morrow & Co.

Presents a collection of fourteen unsettling tales by such notable authors as Ray Bradbury, Joyce Cary, Roald Dahl, Stanley Ellin, and Irwin Shaw.

Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories!

Greenwillow

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