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Handle With Care: Frightening Stories
A collection of fourteen mystery stories by such well-known authors as Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, M.R. James, Isak Dinesen, and others.
Contents
"The Toy Killer" by Barbara Williamson
"The Witch's Vengeance" by WB Seabrook
"Object Lesson" by Ellery Queen
"The Yellow Pill" by Rog Phillips
"My Dear Uncle Sherlock" by Hugh Pentecost
"The Sailor-Boy's Tale" by Isak Dinesen
"The Happy Brotherhood" by Michael Gilbert
"Lost Hearts" by MR James
"The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome
"The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
"Mr. Strang Picks Up The Pieces" by William Brittain
"The Black Cabinet" by John Dickson Carr
"The Day of the Bookmobile" by Patricia McGerr
"The Dressmaker's Doll" by Agatha Christie
Contents
"The Toy Killer" by Barbara Williamson
"The Witch's Vengeance" by WB Seabrook
"Object Lesson" by Ellery Queen
"The Yellow Pill" by Rog Phillips
"My Dear Uncle Sherlock" by Hugh Pentecost
"The Sailor-Boy's Tale" by Isak Dinesen
"The Happy Brotherhood" by Michael Gilbert
"Lost Hearts" by MR James
"The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome
"The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
"Mr. Strang Picks Up The Pieces" by William Brittain
"The Black Cabinet" by John Dickson Carr
"The Day of the Bookmobile" by Patricia McGerr
"The Dressmaker's Doll" by Agatha Christie
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209 pages, Library Binding
First published September 1, 1985
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William B Seabrook's "The Witch's Vengeance" - A young man in rural France makes the mistake of falling for a local girl whose mother is the town witch.... well, I enjoy reading all kinds of stories from all kinds of time periods and this is a perfectly adequate version of a familiar yarn that seems to specifically exist to make the "belief" argument of "magic/witchcraft" and its effects, in a straightforward way. But that's about it. IE - a perfectly straight-line, bland and forgettable little thing
"The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome - an expert maker of clockwork figures turns his skills towards the complaints of young women of his association who are unhappy with their choice of dancing partners at the grand balls. But ingenuity ends in tragedy. There's so much to like about this piece - its succinctness, its restraint (it lets you know that awfulness has happened without spelling it fully out), its prescience (as we enter the age of AI, for good or ill), its (possible) awareness its own lineage (I imagine Jerome must have read Hoffmann's "The Sandman" and incorporated its tale of the proto-android Olympia). A good 'un.
William B Seabrook's "The Witch's Vengeance" - A young man in rural France makes the mistake of falling for a local girl whose mother is the town witch.... well, I enjoy reading all kinds of stories from all kinds of time periods and this is a perfectly adequate version of a familiar yarn that seems to specifically exist to make the "belief" argument of "magic/witchcraft" and its effects, in a straightforward way. But that's about it. IE - a perfectly straight-line, bland and forgettable little thing
"The Dancing Partner" by Jerome K. Jerome - an expert maker of clockwork figures turns his skills towards the complaints of young women of his association who are unhappy with their choice of dancing partners at the grand balls. But ingenuity ends in tragedy. There's so much to like about this piece - its succinctness, its restraint (it lets you know that awfulness has happened without spelling it fully out), its prescience (as we enter the age of AI, for good or ill), its (possible) awareness its own lineage (I imagine Jerome must have read Hoffmann's "The Sandman" and incorporated its tale of the proto-android Olympia). A good 'un.
June 19, 2013
A childhood favorite. I must have read and reread my favorite stories from this collection at least 20 times in 5th-6th grade. I imitated them, turned them into plays and otherwise cut my writing teeth on some of these stories. My all time favorite in this collection is "The Dressmaker's Doll" by Agatha Christie.
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