I haven't read any proper Conte Cruel stories, but the form reportedly degenerated to it's most vulgar form in stories that were adapted to Grand Guignol - so naturally that's the side of things I'm most interested in.
Conte Cruel found it's way into suspense radio, EC Comics, and TV horror anthologies, though seems to have missed a lot of the pulps. Weird Menace had twist endings, but usually of the "it was his uncle all along" type, not Burgess Meredith's glasses breaking.
Some translated reprints of the classic French stories are below:
Thirty Hours with a Corpse: and Other Tales of the Grand Guignol by Maurice Level
The Scaffold by Jean-Marie-Mathias Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
The Vampires of London by Angelo de Sorr
The Crazy Corner by Jean Richepin
Champavert: Immoral Tales by Pétrus Borel
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