John Keir Cross
Personal Information
Description
John Keir Cross was a British author of fantasy and horror stories.
Books
The white magic
The adventure of Jason Flower who was sent on the Grinnell Expedition to help search for missing explorer John Franklin.
The Best horror stories
[Black Cat]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Tell-tale Heart]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Premature Burial]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Torture of hope / Villiers de L'Isle Adam -- An episode of the terror / Honore de Balzac -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The withered arm / Thomas Hardy -- The idiots / Joseph Conrad -- The bird / Thomas Burke -- Lot no. 249 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The sentence / J. Kaden-Bandrowski -- Arabesque, the mouse / A.E. Coppard -- Cinci / Luigi Pirandello -- Suspicion / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Dead on her feet / Cornell Woolrich -- Taboo / Geoffrey Household -- A little place off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene -- The words of guru / C.M. Kornbluth -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The veld / Ray Bradbury -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- Back from the grave / Robert Silverberg -- [A rose for Emily]( / William Faulkner -- The comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- [Pig]( / Roald Dahl -- Robert / Stanley Ellin -- The question / Stanley Ellin -- The terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Not after mindnight / Daphne du Maurier -- Corabella / David Fletcher.
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
Hour after westerly / Robert M. Coates -- Housing problem / Henry Kuttner -- Portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- None before me / Sidney Carroll -- Putzi / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Demon lover / Shirley Jackson -- Miss Winters and the wind / Christine Noble Govan -- Mr. Death and the redheaded woman (the rider on the pale horse) / Helen Eustis -- Jeremy in the wind / Nigel Kneale -- Glass eye / John Keir Cross -- Saint Katy the virgin / John Steinbeck -- Night Flight / Josephine W. Johnson -- Cocoon / John B.L. Goodwin -- Hand / Wessel Hyatt Smitter -- [Sound Machine]( / Roald Dahl -- Laocoön Complex / J.C. Furnas -- I am waiting / Christopher Isherwood. Witnesses / William Sansom -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Heartburn / Hortense Calisher -- Supremacy of Uruguay / E.B. White -- Pedestrian / Ray Bradbury -- Note for the milkman / Sidney Carroll -- Eight Mistresses / Jean Hrolda -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Inflexible Logic / Russell Maloney.
Mysterious, Menacing & Macabre
Side bet / Will F. Jenkins -- "Happy birthday, dear Alexa" / John Keir Cross -- The tombling day / Ray Bradbury -- Head man / Robert Bloch -- The demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- The shuttered room / H.P. Lovecraft -- Dark dream / Elizabeth Fancett -- Two spinsters / E. Phillips Oppenheim -- [Way up to Heaven]( / Roald Dahl.
