Strange Tales from the Strand Magazine

Book Overview

Containing twenty-nine stories of the weird and uncanny, all originally published in the Strand, this collection is an enthralling mix of horror and the supernatural, unnatural disasters, madness, and revenge. We read of a germ that turned the world blind in Edgar Wallace's "The Black Grippe." In "A Sense of the Future," the world supply of oil gives out, cars become obsolete, and after three months we have returned to the days of horse-drawn carriages. In other tales, a camera takes pictures of the future, and a 1971 newspaper is pushed through a mail slot forty years earlier. With spine-tingling stories from the likes of Sapper, Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and a comic fantasy by H.G. Wells, as well as two tales from the children's writer E. Nesbit, Strange Tales from the Strand provides a rich collection for all lovers of the macabre.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019212305X
• ISBN13: 9780192123053
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.2" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

ASSUREDLY STRANGE; AND THAT IS A GOOD THING

Strange is as it should be. This collection is about enjoyment from gifted English prose stylists on a crusade to bend reality. The Strand Magazine was one of the premier prose outlets of its day and this collection serves to introduce it to a new audience. The stories are delightful reading, some dark, some whimsical, some in the venerable futuristic style. Anticipation arises as the reader comes to the end of a story and turns that corner into the next. Some offerings demand serious reflection. This collection is one that over time will be reread at least once, perhaps more.