Murder for Halloween : tales of suspense

Book 1994

Eighteen stories of haunting suspense from the 1840s to the present by known and unknown writers. From Poe's The Black Cat, to Peter Straub's Pork Pie Hat, a gothic tale with a jazz musician as protagonist.

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Detective and mystery stories, American

Halloween Fiction

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Fiction Short stories

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ISBN:

9780892965816
0892965819

Description:

xiv, 362 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Monsters / Ed McBain
The lemures / Steven Saylor
The adventure of the dead cat / Ellery Queen
The odstock curse / Peter Lovesey
The theft of the Halloween pumpkin / Edward D. Hoch
Hallowe'en for Mr. Faulkner / August Derleth
Deceptions / Marcia Muller
The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe
Omjagod / James Grady
The cloak / Robert Bloch
What a woman wants / Michael Z. Lewin
Yesterday's witch / Gahan Wilson
Walpurgis night / Bram Stoker
Trick or treat / Judith Garner
One night at a time / Dorothy Cannell
Night of the goblin / Talmage Powell
Trick-or-treat / Anthony Boucher
Pork pie hat / Peter Straub

LCCN:

94022500

Control Number:

52085

Other Authors:

Hartman, Roland
Slung, Michele B., 1947-

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