John Carnell (ed.) Weird Shadows From Beyond

[allthingshorror]

Josh Kirby

Corgi 1965 (This U.S edition Avon April 1969)

Introduction - Editor
Danse Macabre - Mervyn Peake
Blood Offering - John Kippax
Same time, Same Place - Mervyn Peake
Master of Chaos - Michael Moorcock
Wednesday's Child - William Tenn
Dial 'O' for Operator - Robert Presslie
The Flowers of the Forest - Brian W Aldiss
Fresh Guy - E.C Tubb
The Garden of Paris - Eric Williams
The Graveyard reader - Theodore Sturgeon

Had a look around the massive vault, couldn't find this - so posted it anyway.

An anthology that promises so much - but apart from a few stories, really fails to deliver. I suppose coming off the back of the sometimes overwhelming A Chamber of Horrors 'unlocked' by John Hadfield - the next book I would read would need something special to beat it. Sadly, this isn't the one though udos goes to E.C Tubb's Fresh Guy - this story just does it for me, another one of those I wish I had written myself......

[PeterC]

Interesting post. I understand EC Tubb is/was mostly an SF man.
Does anyone know if his weird/horror fiction has been collected in one volume?

[Craig Herbertson]

I picked this up from locus:

Mirror of the Night E. C. Tubb (Sarob Press 1-902309-39-1, 2003, £25.00, xii+177pp, hc, cover by Richard Gray); Collection of ten of the very best of E.C. Tubb’s supernatural tales. Limited to 200 copies. Also available in a deluxe edition (-40-5, £50.00) limited to 35 numbered copies, and a paperback edition (£9.95).

* vii · Introduction · Philip Harbottle · in
* 1 · Mirror of the Night · ss Fantasy Annual #2 ’98
* 10 · The Ancient Alchemist [as by John Mason] · nv Supernatural Stories #9 ’57
* 36 · The Artist’s Model [as by Robert D. Ennis] · nv Supernatural Stories #9 ’57
* 61 · Snake Vengeance [as by Andrew Sutton] · ss Supernatural Stories #9 ’57
* 76 · The Enemy Within Us · ss Science-Fantasy #11 ’54
* 94 · State of Mind · ss Science-Fantasy #77 ’65
* 102 · Enchanter’s Encounter · nv Science-Fantasy #38 ’59
* 133 · The Winner · ss New Writings in Horror and the Supernatural #1, ed. David A. Sutton, London: Sphere, 1971
* 152 · The Witch of Peronia [as by L. C. Powers] · nv Supernatural Stories #9 ’57
* 170 · Sentimental Journey · ss Nebula #23 ’57