Chilling and Killing

by Joan Kahn (editor)

Joan Kahn, editor of crime fiction at Harper’s, has assembled her fifth collection of stories, comprising crime fiction, true crime, and tales of the supernatural.

Contents: Preface / Jacques Barzun — What was it? / Fitz-James O’Brien — The raspberry patch / Berton Roueché — The man hunt / Milton MacKaye — Another solution / Gilbert Highet — Miss Hinch / Henry Sydnor Harrison — The withered arm / Thomas Hardy — The old shell collector / H. R. F. Keating — The man who murdered Papa Désiré / Lassiter Wren — A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell — Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier — A record of escape / Alfred Morain — The invaders / Robie Macauley — Bird of prey / John Collier — The confession of Charles Linkworth / E. F. Benson — The Broadway Central tragedy / Alfred Henry Lewis — The woman at the store / Katherine Mansfield — The escape / E. H. Lacon Watson — The doll / Francis King — Undertaker song / Damon Runyon — The woman’s ghost story / Algernon Blackwood — The trial of Jane’s aunt / Albert Borowitz

Genres: Horror

337 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978