The Edge of the Chair by Joan Kahn
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Overview: Suspense is what keeps the reader on the edge of the chair. Suspense is what keeps him reading while he’s on the edge of the chair. Suspense can turn up anywhere. In this collection it turns up everywhere, from Pushkin to Pinter, in all sorts of sizes, shapes and flavors.
This is an anthology with a great deal of variety, carefully chosen and craftily arranged so that the reader is never certain what lies ahead. It’s an anthology that takes nothing for granted except a lot of excitement: from fact to fiction, from today to yesterday, through ghosts, ghouls and real horror.
The reader will learn what made the Comstock School for girls unenviably famous when Edmund Pearson, one of the world’s best true-crime writers, reports on the "passionate tragedy, mystery and horrifying scandal” at the school; what the man with the bandaged eyes sees in Harold Pinter’s short story, “Tea Party”; how a man feels after he strangles his wife, when he reads “The Net” by Robert M. Coates; and what actually happened, according to Agatha Christie, when Mrs. Todd’s cook turned up missing in “The Adventure of the Clapham Cook.”
These thirty-four separate masterpieces of suspense—from new, famous, or all but forgotten authors—have been chosen by Joan Kahn, editor of Harper Novels of Suspense.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
THE SIXTH CAPSULE; OR, PROOF BY CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE by Edmund Pearson
FOOL’S MATE by Stanley Ellin
THE AXEMAN WORE WINGS by Robert Tallant
STONE FROM THE STARS by Valentina Zhuravleva
THE QUEEN OF SPADES by Alexander Pushkin
BILLY: THE SEAL MISSION by Stewart Akop and Thomas Braden
A WATCHER BY THE DEAD by Ambrose Bierce
TEA PARTY by Harold Pinter
DEATH DRAWS A TRIANGLE by Edward Hale Bierstadt
THE NET by Robert M. Coates
PRISONER OF THE SAND by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
THE END OF THE PARTY by Graham Greene
THE LAST INHABITANT OF THE TUILERIES by André Castelot
JESTING PILOT by Lewis Padgett
SHATTERING THE MYTH OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH’S ESCAPE by William G. Shepherd
A PIECE OF STEAK by Jack London
THE GAME OF MURDER by Gerd Gaiser
ON THE KILLING OF ERATOSTHENES THE SEDUCER by Kathleen Freeman
THE ADVENTURE OF THE CLAPHAM COOK by Agatha Christie
THE LAST NIGHT OF THE WORLD by Ray Bradbury
“THEY” by Rudyard Kipling
THE CHAIR by John Bartlow Martin
OLD FAGS by Stacy Aumonier
"…DEAD MEN WORKING IN THE CANE FIELDS" by William Seabrook
HOW THE BRIGADIER LOST HIS EAR by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
DRY SEPTEMBER by William Faulkner
RATTENBURY AND STONER by F. Tennyson Jesse
SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE by John Buchan
THE MURDER IN LE MANS by Janet Flanner
SLEEPING BEAUTY by John Collier
THE SHADOW OF THE SHARK by G. K. Chesterton
A SMALL BURIED TREASURE by John Fischer
THE HORLA by Guy de Maupassant
SCRAWNS by Dorothy L. Sayers
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