From the jacket: "Over 500 pages of chills and thrills edited by Dashiell Hammett. Exciting stories wherein things that can't happen and ought not to happen do happen!" 20 classic stories of terror from such masters as H.P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, William Faulkner, John Collier, Conrad Aiken, Stephen Vincent Benet and others, with an introduction by Hammett. CONTENTS Introduction (Creeps by Night: Chills and Thrills) essay by Dashiell Hammett A Woman Alone with Her Soul (1912) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich A Rose for Emily (1930) by William Faulkner Green Thoughts (1931) by John Collier The Ghost of Alexander Perks, A.B. by Robert Dean Frisbie The House (La maison) by André Maurois The Kill by Peter Fleming Ten O'Clock by Philip MacDonald The Spider (Die Spinne) (1908) by Hanns Heinz Ewers Breakdown (1929) by L. A. G. Strong The Witch's Vengeance (1930) by W. B. Seabrook The Rat (1929) by S. Fowler Wright Faith, Hope and Charity (1930) by Irvin S. Cobb Mr. Arcularis (1931) by Conrad Aiken The Music of Erich Zann (1922) by H. P. Lovecraft The Strange Case of Mrs. Arkwright (1928) by Harold Dearden The King of the Cats (1929) by Stephen Vincent Benét The Red Brain (1927) by Donald Wandrei The Phantom Bus (1930) by W. Elwyn Backus Beyond the Door (1923) by J. Paul Suter Perchance to Dream (1930) by Michael Joyce A Visitor from Egypt (1930) by Frank Belknap Long
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Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934). Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories. He created Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) among the enduring characters. In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashiell...
