• Publication: Eight Tales of TerrorPublication Record # 317494
• Author: Edgar Allan Poe
• Date: 1978-00-00
• ISBN: 0-590-41136-5 [978-0-590-41136-3]
• Publisher: Scholastic Book Services
• Price:
  $2.99^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xi+196
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: Stated 11th printing as per number line. Year given is 1978 but printing appears to be later from price and quality. Blurb at the back contains errors in two titles: "The Mask of the Red Death" and "The Cask of the Amontillado."

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• v • Introduction (Eight Tales of Terror) • (1961) • essay by John P. Roberts
• 1 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 15 • Hop-Frog • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs 1849)
• 35 • MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 57 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 90 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 128 • William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
• 170 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 183 • The Imp of the Perverse • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe