Oriental Tales of Terror

Contents

Introduction by J. J. Strating
1. The Taipan (1922) by W. Somerset Maugham
2. The Mark of the Beast (1890) by Rudyard Kipling
3. The Forty-Seven Rōnins? (1870) by A. B. Mitford
4. The Magistrate of Hu-Nan by 蒲松龄 [as by P'u Sung-Ling]
5. The Inn at Ts'ai-Tien by 蒲松龄
6. Hell Screen (1971) by 芥川龍之介 [as by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]
7. The Canary Murders by 馮夢龍 (1620) [as by Feng Meng-Lung]
8. The Vanished Faces by Tom Kristensen (trans. of De Forsvundne Ansigter 1934)
9. The Adventure of the Intarsia Box [Solar Pons] (1964) by August Derleth
10. Kali (1964) by John Keefauver
11. Siamese Hands (1935) by Manuel Komroff
12. The Puppets (1964) by Francis King
13. The Story of Ming-Y (1887) by Lafcadio Hearn
14. Death Comes To Daulat Ram by Khushwant Singh
15. The Head (1937) by Kathleen Wallace (1930s)
16. The Hell of Mirrors (1926) by 江戸川乱歩 [as by Edogawa Rampo]
17. The Man Who Was Milligan (1923) by Algernon Blackwood
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