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Post by dem bones on Nov 20, 2008 15:00:45 GMT
Peter Haining (ed) - First Book Of Unknown Tales Of Horror (Sidgwick & Jackson, Mews, 1976)  Tony Masero
H. R. Wakefield - The Sepulcher Of Jasper Saracen
Bram Stoker - The Crystal Cup
Arthur Machen - The Cosy Room
Robert E. Howard - The Little People
Henry S. Whitehead - Scar Tissue
W. C. Morrow - The Hero Of The Plague
Manly Wade Wellman - The Horror Undying
Robert Bloch - The Machine That Changed History
Ray Bradbury - The Candle
William Bankier - Unholy Hybrid
Francis Clifford - Ten Minutes On A July Morning
Harry Harrison - They’re Playing Our Song Haven't got around to writing up/ down the stories yet, but have somehow got it into my head that there was a NEL edition of this? If so, were the contents the same?
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Post by lobolover on Nov 20, 2008 18:31:18 GMT
Seems interesting
-goes to the internet to look for free eboks versions-
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Post by lobolover on Feb 18, 2009 23:17:04 GMT
Well, the Morrow is good, but its not as his best, so the atmosphere can be lost, outside of "The ape, the idiot and other people" . Not read anything else, but may try to.
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 6, 2009 22:15:12 GMT
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Post by justincase on Jun 26, 2011 23:30:59 GMT
Hi, Could anyone tell me if $400 for the 1st edition trade h/c is overpriced on this one. I know it is pretty rare and I love the cover but... $400..? Thanks in advance! Attachments:
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Post by justincase on Jun 26, 2011 23:33:20 GMT
Oh yeah... does anyone have a pic of the "2nd Book of Unknown Tales of Horror h/c by London Sidgwick & Jackson 1978 (the "First Book.." was 1976). Thank you in advance  Best Regards, Phil |
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Post by noose on Jun 27, 2011 6:53:51 GMT
Keep your eye on it for a while - if it hasn't sold after a year, you'll have your answer... Here's the front and back to the 2nd book. J |
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Post by justincase on Jun 28, 2011 1:26:04 GMT
Keep your eye on it for a while - if it hasn't sold after a year, you'll have your answer... Here's the front and back to the 2nd book. J Wow - that is one gorgeous cover (front and back!). Yeah, I guess time will tell... its what dictates the market. Don't know whether to take the plunge myself but it is a steep plunge at that! Thank you for the feedback and pics! Best Regards, Phil |
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Post by justincase on Jul 2, 2011 14:37:12 GMT
Keep your eye on it for a while - if it hasn't sold after a year, you'll have your answer... Here's the front and back to the 2nd book. J Hi J, It sold! (sadly it sold to me, lol... I managed to talk it down somewhat but it was still a big drop in the bucket as it were). Thanks for your pics and all. I'm still looking for The Third Book.. if you know anyone that would be willing to sell Best Regards, Phil Read more: vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi#ixzz1QxVJizmv |
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Post by dem bones on Apr 28, 2016 8:22:42 GMT
Mildly Jamesian Gothic, return of the fairy folk and the-man-who-wrote-Psycho doing his bit for the War effort.
" .... when the bomb dropped ... some of the coffins was blown right to the surface and opened up, and in one there weren't no body at all, just some wooden blocks. And in another was a woman without no 'ead, and in another there was something very funny-shaped indeed, not nice to see.
H. R. Wakefield – The Sepulchre Of Jasper Saracen: (Fantastic Universe, Aug. 1953). Sir Reginald Ramsey, sometime keen ornithologist, pursues a willow warbler to the local (Kensal Green?) cemetery. Sir Reginald has no time for sentimental tripe and despises such "many acred morgue"s as a waste of good land. We live, we die, game over. Far better our ashes are scattered to the four winds. Ramsey arrives at a bomb damaged stone hut, inside, six coffins, one unmarked. This is the sepulchre Of Jasper Saracen, who, sixty years ago, was acquitted on a charge of murdering his wife and four children in a boating "accident." According to the sexton, local feeling has it that a less moneyed man would not have escaped the gallows. The sepulchre has a bad name. Nobody likes to pass it after dark.
The warbler eludes Sir Reginald , but some strange fascination compels him to return to the hut on a regular basis. It's undead occupant lies in wait ....
Robert E. Howard - The Little People: (Coven 13, January 1970). Joan Costigan, an American holidaying in the West country with her brother, has just finished reading Arthur Machen's The Shining Pyramid which she dismisses as a mere fairy story for girl and softies. Brother argues that there is truth in the old legends. When informed by an old villager that no-one dare cross the fens after dark on account of the little people, the foolish flapper resolves to spend the night in the stone ruin on the hill. It falls to her brother, an amateur boxer and Conan the Barbarian wannabe, to rush to her rescue but the horrid horde are too many. It looks all up for them until an ancient bearded fellow steps out of the mist ...
Robert Bloch - The Machine That Changed History: (Science Fiction Stories, July 1943). Cologne, 1942. Hitler invites MAD GENIUS Herr Shultz to Berchtesgaden to demonstrate his miraculous invention - a silver time machine. The new toy works a treat! The Führer is so impressed that he has Shultz taken away and shot. With entire world domination finally within his grasp, he returns trusty Eglitz of the Gestapo to the year 1807 on a mission to kidnap Napoléon Bonaparte. Eglitz returns ten seconds later, captive in tow. We're doomed!
The Emporer takes his abduction in good humour and agrees to fine tune the Nazi war effort. He suggests the controls be set for 1939 so Hitler and himself can rectify such minor strategic errors as the missed opportunity to invade Britain. But both men have conflicting agenda's, with each determined to crush the other ....
Arthur Machen - The Cosy Room: (T.P.'s Weekly, May 1908). Torment of a fugitive lying low in the capital. He shot a man dead in a row over a girl and wasn't discreet about it. As the dreadful days crawl past, sometimes he even dares hope, but all roads lead to the cosy room.
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