Publication: The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror

Publication: The Power of Darkness: Tales of TerrorPublication Record # 606827
Author: E. Nesbit
Date: 2006-07-05
ISBN: 1-84022-531-9 [978-1-84022-531-0]
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Pub. Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Price:
$^?$: US dollar
Pages: 255
Format:
tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
Type: COLLECTION
Cover: The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror by
Paul Cézanne^?Paul Cezanne
Notes: Contents probably incomplete as of 2017-02-25: -- 20 transcribed from p5, Contents, via Amazon "Look Inside!" that omits p6 -- last-listed "The Detective" probably published 1920 as 8-page item Publ date and cover image from Amazon.com 2017-02-24 with "Look Inside!" including: Copyright page shows -- "For my husband Anthony John Ranson with love from your wife, the publisher" (?) -- ISBN-13 only (later printing?) -- "First published 2006 ..." Contents, p[5], lists Introduction and 20 stories (continues to missing p6 unless last-listed "The Detective" p225 is much the longest) Introduction evidently spans p7-13 Cover artist on back cover of Archive.org copy; this is apparently the first edition, and Amazon's cover is from a later printing.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 416395038
- Open Library: OL8914289M

Cover art supplied by Open Library

Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • Introduction (The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror) • essay by David Stuart Davies
15 • Man-Size in Marble • (1887) • short story by E. Nesbit
27 • Uncle Abraham's Romance • (1893) • short story by E. Nesbit
31 • From the Dead • (1893) • short story by E. Nesbit
43 • The Three Drugs • (1908) • short story by E. Nesbit (variant of The Third Drug)
60 • The Violet Car • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit
73 • John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
80 • The Pavilion • (1915) • short story by E. Nesbit
95 • Hurst of Hurstcote • (1893) • short story by E. Nesbit
106 • In the Dark • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit
117 • The Head • non-genre • (1907) • short story by E. Nesbit
131 • The Mystery of the Semi-Detached • (1893) • short story by E. Nesbit
134 • The Ebony Frame • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
144 • The Five Senses • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
159 • The Shadow • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit (variant of The Portent of the Shadow 1905)
169 • The Power of Darkness • non-genre • (1905) • short story by E. Nesbit
182 • The Haunted Inheritance • (1900) • short story by E. Nesbit
197 • The Letter in Brown Ink • (1899) • short story by E. Nesbit
203 • The House of Silence • (1906) • short story by E. Nesbit
213 • The Haunted House • (1913) • short story by E. Nesbit
225 • The Detective • (1920) • short story by E. Nesbit

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