Masque Of The Red Death & Others

[franklinmarsh]

The Masque Of The Red Death And Other Tales Of Horror

Panther 1964

Edited by Michael Sissons

The Masque Of The Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
The Other Place - J B Priestly
Child's Play - William Link And Richard Levinson
The Whole Town's Sleeping - Ray Bradbury
What Was It? - Fitz-James O'Brien
Silver Circus - A E Coppard
Kiss Me Again, Stranger - Daphne Du Maurier
The Smoking Leg - Jon Metcalfe
Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Conrad Aiken
The Children Of Noah - Richard Matheson
The Earlier Service - Margaret Irwin
The Man Who Didn't Ask Why - C S Forester
Sealskin Trousers - Eric Linklater

[dem bones]

Thanks, Franklin. Michael Sissons compiled one of my favourite 'sixties anthologies, In The Dead Of Night, and you can tell he was well cut out for the job. Both books are so much more imaginative than Herbert Van Thal's work for Panther from the same time.

They're polar opposites in style and intent but Matheson's horrific The Children Of Noah and Conrad 'Joan's Dad' Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow (one of Christopher Fowler's favourites I seem to recall) are particularly good. The Smoking Leg is slow going but worth sticking with ...