Mark Twain's Medieval Romance

Otto Penzler

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781639360499
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

A premier anthology of some of the finest mystery stories in literary history, including tales from Bradbury, Dahl, Huxley, O. Henry, and Twain. Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continually arresting collection come with an irresistible challenge: At their end they leave it to you, the reader, to determine how they end. For ultimately it's the reader who authors the fate of the brave youth as he contemplates which of the two doors in the king's arena he will choose in Frank Stockton's famous and unforgettable "The Lady, or the Tiger?" And which of the two brothers in three-time Edgar-winner Stanley Ellin's "Unreasonable Doubt" shoots a bullet square in the middle of their rich uncle's forehead? And just what not-so-sweet secret is the prim Miss Spence hiding behind her smile in Aldous Huxley's deliciously enigmatic tale? you decide. In all, as in "The Moment of Decision"?a chilling tale that seals an escape artist inside an airless stone cell with a heavy wooden door, which may or may not open?the moment of decision is yours.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Unreasonable Doubt Introduction
• A Dilemma Introduction
• Nunc Dimittis Introduction
• The Lady, or The Tiger? Introduction
• The Discourager of Hesitancy
• The Lady, and The Tiger Introduction
• The Blind Spot Introduction
• The Mysterious Card Introduction
• The Mysterious Card Unveiled
• Karmesin and the Meter Introduction
• One Hundred in the Dark Introduction
• The Whole Town's Sleeping Introduction
• At Midnight, in the Month of June Introduction
• Thimble, Thimble Introduction
• The Gioconda Smile Introduction
• Tea for Two Introduction
• The Lady and the Dragon Introduction
• A Medieval Romance Introduction
• The Moment of Decision Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Copyright Page