Alberto Manguel, ed - Dark Arrows: Revenge Stories (pdf)

Alberto Manguel, editor - Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge (Clarkson Potter, 1987). 314 pages.

New scan. Searchable pdf (clearscan) with contents in bookmarks, accurate pagination and metadata, etc.



DARK ARROWS is a collection of eighteen powerful stories with the tantalizing theme of revenge. Included are such writers as E.L. Doctorow, Frederick Forsyth, William Faulkner, Nadine Gordimer, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, and many others whose obsessed, diabolic characters commit mischief, mayhem, and murder against real - or imagined - injustices.

CONTENTS

"The Squaw" by Bram Stoker
"There Are No Snakes In Ireland" by Frederick Forsyth
"The Great Electrical Revolution" by Ken Mitchell
"Letter From His Father" by Nadine Gordimer
"The Isle of Voices" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"A Bear Hunt" by William Faulkner
"Sredni Vashtar" by Saki
"The Foundling" by Heinrich von Kleist
"Uncle Facundo" by Isidoro Blaisten
"Permission For Death Is Granted" by Edmundo Valades
"Emma Zunz" by Jorge Luis Borges
"Miss Esperson" by August Derleth
"Hop Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe
"A Women's Vengeance" by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
"The Pirate of the Round Pond" by Lord Dunsany
"Willi" by E.L. Doctorow
"Torridge" by William Trevor
"Dayspring Mishandled" by Rudyard Kipling