The Travelling Grave and Other Stories is a collection of fantasy and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 short stories

Short Stories

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 by author L. P. Hartley

L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley was a British writer, known for novels and short stories. His best-known work is The Go-Between , which was made into a 1970 film, directed by Joseph Losey with a star cast, in an adaptation by Harold Pinter...

. It was released in 1948

1948 in literature

The year 1948 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The Pulitzer Prize for the Novel is renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....

 and was the author's first American collection of fantastic tales. It was published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

in an edition of 2,047 copies.

Most of the stories originally appeared in two British collections: Night Fears and The Killing Bottle and Other Stories

Contents

The Travelling Grave and Other Stories contains the following tales:

1. "A Visitor from Down Under"
2. "Podolo"
3. "Three, or Four, for Dinner"
4. "The Travelling Grave"
5. "Feet Foremost"
6. "The Cotillion"
7. "A Change of Ownership"
8. "The Thought"
9. "Conrad and the Dragon"
10. "The Island"
11. "Night Fears"
12. "The Killing Bottle"