European Tales of Terror

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Stories from the pens of the great European Masters of Terror

  • Introduction (European Tales of Terror) • (1968) • essay by J. J. Strating
  • Ghosts! • short story by Marie Luise Kaschnitz (trans. of Gespenster 1960)
  • An Apparition • short story by Knut Hamsun (trans. of Et Spøkelse 1898)
  • Who Knows? • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
  • The Idol of the Cyclades • (1968) • short story by Julio Cortázar? (trans. of El ídolo de las Cícladas 1956)
  • Vampires Ltd. • (1964) • short story by Josef Nesvadba (trans. of Upir ltd 1962)
  • The Executioner • non-genre • (1946) • short story by Honoré de Balzac? (trans. of El Verdugo 1830)
  • In the Penal Settlement • (1961) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
  • The Fate of the Baron • (1968) • short story by Arthur Schnitzler (trans. of Das Schicksal des Freiherrn von Leisenbohg 1904)
  • Just the Very Thing They Wanted • (1965) • short story by Dino Buzzati (trans. of Non aspettavano altro 1947)
  • Our Father Who Art in Heaven • (1968) • short story by Валентин Катаев? (trans. of Отче наш? 1946) [as by Valentin Katayev]
  • The Great Happening • (1968) • novelette by Belcampo (trans. of Het grote gebeuren 1946)
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