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Post by dem bones on Mar 21, 2008 7:06:06 GMT
Singer had a stack of paperbacks collections published under a variety of UK publishers - Corgi, Sphere, Nel, Panther, Star, etc - from the 'sixties onwards. Often they were first issued as W. H. Allen hardbacks and then the contents would be recycled over and over. A few examples: Kurt Singer's Horror Omnibus - (W. H. Allen, 1965: Panther, 1966) The Gothic Reader - (Ace, 1966) Weird Tales Of The Supernatural - (W. H. Allen, 1966) I Can't Sleep At Night - (Corgi, 1966) Tales Of Terror - (W. H. Allen, 1967) Kurt Singer's Ghost Omnibus - (Nel, Nov 1967) Kurt Singer's Second Ghost Omnibus - (Nel, Dec 1967) Tales Of The Uncanny - (W. H. Allen, 1968) Tales Of The Macabre - (Nel, Dec 1969) Tales From The Unknown - (W. H. Allen, 1970) The Plague Of The Living Dead & More Tales Of The Uncanny - (Sphere, 1970: Ace/ Stoneshire, 1984) The Oblong Box & Other Tales Of The Uncanny - (Sphere, 1970) The Day Of The Dragon & Other Tales Of Terror - (Sphere, 1971) The House In The Valley & Other Tales Of Terror - (Sphere, 1971) Ghouls And Ghosts - (W. H. Allen, 1972) The Satanic Omnibus - (W. H. Allen, 1973) Gothic Horror Book - (W. H. Allen, 1974) They Are Possessed - (W. H. Allen, 1976) The Star Bumper Horror Book #1 (Star, 1986) The Star Bumper Horror Book #2 (Star, 1986) The Sphere paperbacks Plague Of The Living Dead and The Oblong Box were originally just the one book, Tales Of The Uncanny (W. H. Allen, 1968). Similarly, Day Of The Dragon and The House In The Valley (both Sphere, 1971) comprised Tales Of Terror (W.H. Allen, 1967). Dr. Terror also reminds us that there were 4 volumes of the Target Book Of Horror Stories, the first two published in 1984, the others in 1985. Volumes 1 and 2 were then repackaged as The Star Bumper Horror Book: One in 1986, Volumes 3 and 4 becoming The Star Bumper Horror Book: Two the same year. Singer will eventually get a sub-section to himself once more books have been posted. In the meantime, please flesh this list out if poss!
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albie
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Post by albie on Aug 12, 2008 12:24:41 GMT
I have his second ghost omnibus. I suppose you'd want me to read all the stories and give a little summary?
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Post by dem bones on Dec 3, 2008 11:23:34 GMT
Here's some more, probably give them their own threads in due course. Kurt Singer (ed.) - The Gothic Reader: Outstanding Tales of Menace, Mystery, and Romantic Suspense (Ace, 1966) "These tales of Gothic romance and suspense, brilliantly executed by the foremost writers of the genre, are for those discerning readers who dare to venture into the world of star-crossed lovers and living nightmares; a world where evil hides in the shadowy corners of the dark old houses it inhabits"Dorothy Eden - Shadow In Beige Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Duenna Daphne du Maurier - The Alibi Clemence Dane - Spinsters’ Rest August Derleth - Mrs. Lanisfree May Sinclair - The Villa Désirée Hugh Walpole - Mrs. Lunt Enid Bagnold - The Amorous Ghost Algernon Blackwood - Chemical Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Schalken The PainterKurt Singer - Gothic Horror Book (W. H. Allen, 1974) Preface - Kurt Singer
Edgar Allan Poe - The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar Joseph Conrad - Amy Foster Rudyard Kipling - 'They' J. S. Le Fanu - Green Tea Stephen Goldin - For Services Rendered George B. Tuttle - The Roc Raid A. Hyatt Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead Paul Ernst - The Duel Of The Sorcerers Seabury Quinn - The Cloth Of Madness Rudyard Kipling - The Phantom Rickshaw
Once again, he seems to have raided R. A. W. Lowdnes excellent Magazine Of Horror & co for the forgotten gems in this one but we can forgive him that for reproducing Ernst's outrageous, novel-length vampire epic in its entirety alongside the lesser George B. Tuttle and Goldin stories. The Cloth Of Madness is one of Quinn's finest non-De Grandin's, and, as Calenture has pointed out, The Plague Of The Living Dead is utterly worthy of your time. Kurt Singer - Ghouls & Ghosts (W. H. Allen, 1972) Preface - Kurt Singer
Seabury Quinn - Birthmark F. Marion Crawford - The Screaming Skull Peter Phillips - Death's Boquet Henry James - Sir Edward Orme Seabury Quinn - Vampire Kith And Kin Edmond Hamilton - The Valley Of The Assassins Arlton Eadie - The Nameless Mummy Guy De Maupassant - The Horla Robert Bloch - The Man Who Cried Wolf! Wilkie Collins - A Terribly Strange Bed Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - The Seventh Man Bram Stoker - The Judge's House Richard Middleton - The Ghost Ship Edith Wharton - Afterward Seabury Quinn - Gotterdammerung Three from the Seebs, but even that doesn't help. Vampire Kith And Kin is the only one to feature de Grandin and Trowbridge, and, despite taking it's inspiration from a passage in Montague Summers' "classic" regarding the bottling of the vrykolaka, this is a tired affair from the tail-end of the series.
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Post by fritzmaitland on May 30, 2010 18:12:46 GMT
The Oblong Box & other Tales of the Uncanny. Edited by Kurt Singer. Sphere 1970 Almost Immortal - Austin Hall
The Leaden Ring - S. Baring-Gould
The Oblong Box - Edgar Allan Poe
The Ghostly Rental - Henry James
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lazarus - Leonid Andreyeff
The Voice - Neil Kay
"Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt had separate cabins. Mr. Wyatt kept the box in his room. It was seven feet long, two and half feet wide. At night he took out the nails with a chisel and at dawn he put them back with a mallet..." Presumably Sphere tossed this out to cash in on the AIP fillum of the same title.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 29, 2012 7:22:50 GMT
It's been a long hard road, but i think i'm beginning to make sense of it all. The core anthologies are as follows. 1. Kurt Singer's Ghost Book: 'Non-fiction', originally published in hardcover by W. H. Allen in 1965. Reissued in paperback as Kurt Singer's World's Greatest Stories Of The Occult (Panther, 1965) 2. Kurt Singer's Ghost Omnibus was originally published in hardcover by W. H. Allen in 1965. Four Square ran the contents over two paperbacks, Kurt Singer's Ghost Omnibus and Kurt Singer's Second Ghost Omnibus in 1967. All sixteen stories are culled from Weird Tales. 3. Kurt Singer's Horror Omnibus (W. H. Allen, 1965). A Panther paperback followed the following year. Vast bulk of the material reprinted from Robert A. W. Lowndres' Magazine Of Horror. 4. Weird Tales Of The Supernatural (W. H. Allen, 1966): As the title suggests, 18 stories culled from Weird Tales (plus one from Magazine of Horror). 5. I Can't Sleep At Night (Whiting & Wheaton,1966: Corgi, 1967). Thirteen stories culled from Weird Tales. 6. The Gothic Reader(Ace, 1966). Paperback only (?) Ten stories of 'classic vintage chills' persuasion. 7. Kurt Singer's Tales of Terror. Originally published in hardcover by W. H. Allen in 1967. The contents were recycled over two paperbacks by Sphere in their 'occult' series as The Day Of The Dragon & Other Tales Of Terror and The House in the Valley & Other Tales Of Terror8. Kurt Singer Tales Of The Uncanny: Originally published in hardcover by W. H. Allen in 1967. The contents were recycled over two paperbacks by Sphere in their 'occult' series as The Oblong Box & Other Tales Of The Uncanny and The Plague Of The Living Dead & More Tales Of The Uncanny in 1970 . 9. Tales Of The Macabre. NEL paperback, 1969. Seven from Weird Tales plus two. 10. Fever Dream: Bloch & Bradbury: Sphere paperback, 1970. Suppose this counts. Shared anthology of six Weird Tales from Robert Bloch and four from Ray Bradbury, each of which had, or would, find their way into Singer's other collections. 11. Tales from the Unknown: Published in hardback by W. H. Allen in 1970. Another fiction/ 'non-fiction' mash up. First seven stories would reappear in paperbacks The 4th Target Book Of Horror and Star Bumper Book Of Horror 2. (see below) 12. Ghouls & Ghosts. Published in hardback by W. H. Allen in 1972. Head-on collision between genre classics and latter-day Weird Tales fare. 13. Kurt Singer The Satanic Omnibus. Published in hardback by W. H. Allen in 1973. Fifteen stories from Weird Tales. 14. Kurt Singer's Gothic Horror Book. Published in hardback by W. H. Allen in 1974. Another ramsack of R. A. W. L.'s Magazine Of Horror. 15. They Are Possessed: Masterpieces of Exorcism: Published in hardback by W. H. Allen in 1973. A very odd mix of 'non-fiction', Seabury Quinn, Evangeline Walton and Carl Jacobi! Rabid Recycling. Various selections from the above were doled out again as the four volume Target Book Of Horror Stories (1984-1985). The same publisher wasted no time in reissuing the four slim paperbacks as a boxed set, The Target Box Of Horror (1985), before they were all reissued as the two volume The Star Bumper Horror Book series (both 1986) Shriek (Ure Smith [n.d.], Eclipse, 1974) is a bumper amalgamation of Ghouls & Ghosts and The Satanic Omnibus Missing TOC's to be drifted up over next few days.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Mar 29, 2012 12:56:11 GMT
It's been a long hard road, but i think i'm beginning to make sense of it all. The core anthologies are as follows. This is very useful, as trying to keep Singer's anthologies straight makes my head hurt. I got excited reading your post about his Ghost Omnibus recently, thinking this was one that I didn't have. Then I looked at my bookshelf and realized (1) that I owned the book, (2) that I'd read it, and (3) that I didn't remember anything about it.
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