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Macmillan Midnight Library

This page lists crime fiction anthologies published Macmillan in the Macmillan Midnight Library series. The list is probably incomplete.

 

Macmillan Midnight Library

Witches Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Macmillan Midnight Library

Macmillan

1984

The contents are:

  • Introduction (Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini)
  • The Haunted Chamber (Ann Radcliffe)
  • The Last Man (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
  • The Yellow Wall Paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
  • The Striding Place (Gertrude Atherton)
  • Afterward (Edith Wharton)
  • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched (May Sinclair)
  • The Lamp (Agatha Christie)
  • The Gray Men (Rebecca West)
  • The Cyprian Cat (Dorothy L. Sayers)
  • A Haunted House (Virginia Woolf)
  • The Idol Of The Flies (Jane Rice)
  • Judgement Day (Flannery O'Connor)
  • The Birds (Daphne Du Maurier)
  • Night Court (Mary Elizabeth Counselman)
  • The Lovely House (Shirley Jackson)
  • Kindling point (Marcia Muller)
  • The bingo master (Joyce Carol Oates)
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Child's Ploy: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Macmillan Midnight Library

Macmillan

1984

The contents are:

  • Introduction (Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini)
  • The Rocking-Horse Winner (D.H. Lawrence)
  • How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped (Katherine Mansfield)
  • The Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan)
  • Paul's Case (Willa Cather)
  • Little Boy Lost (Q. Patrick)
  • Too Early Spring (Stephen Vincent Benet)
  • The Threatening Three (William Campbell Gault)
  • The End Of The Party (Graham Greene)
  • The Landscape Of Dreams (John Lutz)
  • Fire Escape (Cornell Woolrich)
  • Ludmila (Jean L. Backus)
  • Day For A Picnic (Edward D. Hoch)
  • Carnival Day (Nedra Tyre)
  • Good Man, Bad Man (Jerome Weidman)
  • Looie Follows Me (John D. MacDonald)
  • Here Lies Another Blackmailer (Bill Pronzini)
  • Morning Song (Betty Ren Wright)
  • The Hedge Between (Charlotte Armstrong)
  • Uncle Max (Pat McMahon)
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Dark Lessons: Crime and Detection on Campus

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Macmillan Midnight Library

Macmillan

1985

The contents are:

  • William Wilson (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • Murder At Pentecost (Dorothy L. Sayers)
  • Murder At Mother's Knee (Cornell Woolrich)
  • The Lethal Logic (Norbert Davis)
  • To Break The Wall (Evan Hunter)
  • When Greek Meets Greek (Graham Greene)
  • Charles (Shirley Jackson)
  • The Ten O'clock Scholar (Harry Kemelman)
  • The Problem Of The Little Red Schoolhouse (Edward D. Hoch)
  • The Disappearance Of Maggie (Talmage Powell)
  • A Matter Of Scholarship (Anthony Boucher)
  • Final Exam (Bill Pronzini And Barry N. Malzberg)
  • Broken Pattern (George C. Chesbro)
  • Dead Week (L.P. Carpenter)
  • Van Der Valk And The High School Riot (Nicholas Freeling)
  • Robert (Stanley Ellin)
  • The Turncoat Journal Of Marc (Milton Stearns and Barry N. Malzberg)
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Kill or Cure: Suspense Stories About the World of Medicine

Editors: Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Macmillan Midnight Library

Macmillan

1985

The contents are:

  • The Resident Patient (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
  • The Superfluous Finger (Jacques Futrelle)
  • The Cyprian Bees (Anthony Wynne)
  • Easter Devil (Mignon Eberhart)
  • But The Patient Died (Lawrence G. Blochman)
  • The Problem Of The Covered Bridge (Edward D. Hoch)
  • Hurting Much? (Cornell Woolrich)
  • The Memorial Hour (Wade Miller)
  • Guilty Witness (Morris Hershman)
  • The Doctor Takes A Case (George Harmon Coxe)
  • Miracle Of The Fifteen Murderers (Ben Hecht)
  • Doctor's Orders (John F. Suter)
  • The Splinter (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
  • Sound Alibi (Jack Ritchie)
  • Paint Doctor (Joe L. Hensley)
  • The Other Side Of The Curtain (Helen McCloy)
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