Strange Tales from "The Strand"
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Strange Tales from "The Strand" by Jack Adrian
Containing 29 stories all originally published in the "Strand", this collection provides a rich mix of horror and the supernatural for all lovers of the macabre. In addition to ghost stories, there are tales of unnatural disasters, of horrifying monsters, of madness and revenge, and even comic fantasies. As well as chilling contributions from Graham Greene, Conan Doyle, H.G.Wells, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, and Sapper, there are unsettling stories from the more unlikely pens of Beverley Nichols, D.H.Lawrence, and children's writer E.Nesbit.Bill Pronzini is a well-known mystery and suspense writer of over forty novels, and is best known as the creator of the Nameless Detective series. He served as the first president of the Private Eye Writers of America, and won that organization's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. Jack Adrian is
an authority on popular and genre fiction in the twentieth century, and is the author of many books, and editor and co-editor of numerous anthologies, including Crime at Christmas, The Art of the Impossible, and The Oxford Book of Historical Stories.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192123053 |
| ISBN 10 | 019212305X |
| Title | Strange Tales from "The Strand" |
| Author | Jack Adrian |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1991-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 398 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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