The Fallen Curtain is a collection of 11 short stories by British writer Ruth Rendell. The title story won the MWA Edgar Award for Best Short Story of the Year in 1975.^[1] The book was first published in the UK in 1976 by Hutchinson. All stories – with the exception of People Don’t Do Such Things, The Vinegar Mother and Divided We Stand – were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the early to mid-1970's.

• The Fallen Curtain
• People Don’t Do Such Things
• A Bad Heart (in the magazine publication under the title Trapped)
• You Can’t Be Too Careful
• The Double (in the magazine publication under the title Meeting in the Park)
• The Venus Fly Trap (in the magazine publication under the title Venus’s Flytrap)
• The Clinging Woman (in some publications under the title His Worst Enemy)
• The Vinegar Mother
• The Fall of a Coin
• Almost Human
• Divided We Stand