A pretty successful lunchtime at the local junk shops. At the YMCA for a buck each:
Gahan Wilson's Favorite Tales of Horror, Tempo Books, 1976.
Contents
Introduction
Charles Birkin, Kitty Fisher
Clark Ashton Smith, The Treader of the dust
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Horror of the heights
William Hope Hodgson, The Stone Ship
Gahan Wilson, The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could be
Mary Wilkins Freeman, Luella Miller
Sir Frederick Treves, The Idol with Hands of Clay
Ambrose Bierce, My Favorite Murder
William Fryer Harvey, The Clock
Robert W. Chambers, The Harbor-Master
MR James, Rats
An interesting selection which appears to be heart-felt - from the intro: "All of these stories have, appropriately enough, haunted me. Having read them I cannot get rid of them; they will not let me be."
Kurt Singer, The Third Target Book of Horror, Target, 1985
Contents
Wilkie Collins, A terribly Strange Bed
Frank Stevens, Psychic Alert Saved Film Star
GG Pendarves, The Dark Star
Carl Jacobi, Portrait in Moonlight
Richard Middleton, The Ghost Ship
Horace Leaf, I am a Psychic Detective
Seabury Quinn, The Cloth of Madness
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV, Dell 1978\
Contents
Preface
Arthur Williams, Being a Murder Myself
Edward Lucas White, Luckundoo
William Sansom, A Woman Seldom Found
Margaret St Clair, The Perfectionist
John Russell, The Price of the Head
Q. Patrick, Love Comes to Miss Lucy
Saki, Sredni Vashtar
Philip MacDonald, Love Lies Bleeding
Jerome K. Jerome, The Dancing Partner
MR James, Casting the Runes
William Hope Hodgson, The Voice in the Night
Robert S. Hichens, How Love Came to Professor Guildea
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 13 More storties They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV, Dell 1978
Contents
Stanley Ellin, The Moment of Decision
James Francis Dwyer, A Jungle Graduate
CP Donnel, Jr, Recipe for Murder
Roald Dahl, Nunc Dimittis
Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
John Collier, The Lady on the Grey
AM Burrage, The Waxwork
Thomas Burke, The Dumb Wife
DK Broster, Couching at the Door
Ray Bradbury, The October Game
Robert Bloch, Water's Edge
Robert Arthur, The Jokester
Leonard Andreyev, The Abyss
Typing those contents out made me realise what a strong collection the original is.
For $4 at St Vinnies: