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Post by dem bones on May 2, 2008 15:39:48 GMT
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) - A Book Of Strange Stories (Pan, 1954) Dorothy L. Sayers - The Cyprian Cat
Dylan Thomas - A Visit to Grandma
Walter De la Mare - "What Dreams May Come"
Aldous Huxley - The Dwarf
Gerald Bullett - Dearth's Farm
G. Fielden Hughes - The Ends of Justice
L. P. Hartley - The Island
Margery Sharp - The Second Step
Adrian Alington - Lady For Drowning
E. Nesbit - Man-size in Marble
Alan Wykes - Miss Sanders' Story
Phyllis Bentley - Nemesis
W. Stanley Moss - The Zombie of Alto ParanaFive Years before he launched the Pan Book of Horror Stories, Herbert Van Thal compiled A Book Of Strange Stories, (Pan, 1954), a mixture of horror, the supernatural and the bizarre. It's pretty uneven as a collection, but in it's grimmer moments, it gave some indication of what was to come. Fielden Hughes (with The Mistake), Alan Wykes ( Nightmare) and L. P. Hartley (the brilliant doppelganger variation, W.S.) would all be re-united in the first Pan Horror book. The E. Nesbit story seems to have been included in every ghost story collection published since the year it was written, Bullett's equine horror Dearth's Farm made the Fontana Horror books (and several others) and Peter Haining has described the W. Stanley Moss rarity as the most literary zombie stories ever written.
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