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Post by dem bones on Apr 10, 2009 9:00:09 GMT
Alexander Laing (ed.) - The Haunted Omnibus (Farrar Rinehart 1937: Cassell, 1937: MJF Books, 1997): An abridged edition was published as Great Ghost Stories Of The World: The Haunted Omnibus (Blue Ribbon, 1941) Illustrated by Lynd Ward  Lynd Ward, inner The Haunted Omnibus
W. F. Harvey - August Heat
The Gibsons - Justice
DuBose Heyward - The Half Pint Flask
Anon - The Brahman, the Thief, and the Ghost
M. R. James - The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
Charlotte P. Gilman - The Yellow Wall Paper
A. E. Coppard - The King of the World
W. L. George - Perez
A. Blackwood - The Wendigo
O. Henry - The Furnished Room
F. M. Crawford - The Screaming Skull
W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
Guy de Maupassant - The Horla
Saki - Laura
Arthur Machen - The White People
Pliny the Younger - Concerning Phantoms
R. L. Stevenson - Markheim
Lafcadio Hearn - The Story of Ming-Y
W. F. Harvey - The Beast With Five Fingers
A. E. Coppard - Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
May Sinclair - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched,
Anon - The Second Kalandar's Tale
Alexander Woollcott - Full Fathom Five
Ambrose Bierce - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Richard Middleton - The Ghost Ship
Edgar Allan Poe - William Wilson
J. C. Andersen - The Feather Cloak of Hawaii
Michael Arlen - The Gentleman From America
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The Story of Glam: The Grettissaga
Owen Lattimore - The Ghosts Of Wulakai
M. R. James - Casting The Runes
Ambrose Bierce - A Man With Two Lives
Algernon Blackwood - The Woman's Ghost Story
Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel
A. E. Coppard - Clorinda Walks in Heaven
Beowulf: The Grendel Episode
John Collier - Green thoughts
Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
L. P. Hartley - A Visitor From Down Under
Gertrude Atherton - The Foghorn
A. E. Coppard - The Cherry Tree
Edith Wharton - Afterward
 AfterwardAt the time Alexander Laing (1903-1981) was best known to fans of macabre literature for his novel The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, (Farrar Rinehart, Butterworth, 1934) and he proved he was no mean anthologist with this eclectic selection, bolstered by snippets such as the Gibsons' short-short Justice and I. A. Ireland's Climax For A Ghost Story. An added plus are the illustrations by Lynd Kendall Ward (26 June 1905 - 28 June 1985), noted for his work on a 1934 edition of Frankenstein, published by Harrison Smith & Robert Haas.  Frankenstein Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched
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Post by gormenghast on Jan 18, 2011 21:59:52 GMT
I found this in dingy used book store a few years ago. Nice volume - but what really made me snatch it up was the Michael Arlen story. I had read about this story for years but found it next to impossible to track down.
It's a great story that has another grim tale within it that I'm sure made it's way to an urban legend over time - The Furry Collar.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 19, 2011 8:36:43 GMT
we've the makings of a good Michael Arlen thread (thanks to pulphack's contribution) here; The Gentleman From AmericaOf course, if there's one horror anthology needs republishing in a hurry it's Ivor Pelham Morley's "long lost" Tales Of Terror For Tiny Tots ...  |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 19, 2011 9:43:27 GMT
we've the makings of a good Michael Arlen thread (thanks to pulphack's contribution) here; The Gentleman From AmericaOf course, if there's one horror anthology needs republishing in a hurry it's Ivor Pelham Morley's "long lost" Tales Of Terror For Tiny Tots ... While we are at it, I would like a DVD of THE FATAL NIGHT. THE FATAL NIGHT is the lost, utterly unavailable film made from Arlen's "The Gentleman from America." All the IMDb reviewers say it is the most frighteníng thing they ever saw. Of course, they were kids when they saw it, but still. |
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Post by dem bones on Oct 6, 2013 7:12:36 GMT
Many thanks to friend Milan for gifting me, among others, an original, Cassell, 1937 edition of The Haunted Omnibus, which runs to 846 pages as opposed to my Blue Ribbon version, Great Ghost Stories Of The World: The Haunted Omnibus clocks off on a measly 486. Have now amended the thread opener to include the extra content. The Story of Glam: The Grettissaga
Owen Lattimore - The Ghosts Of Wulakai
M. R. James - Casting The Runes
Ambrose Bierce - A Man With Two Lives
Algernon Blackwood - The Woman's Ghost Story
Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel
A. E. Coppard - Clorinda Walks in Heaven
Beowulf: The Grendel Episode
John Collier - Green thoughts
Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart
L. P. Hartley - A Visitor From Down Under
Gertrude Atherton - The Foghorn
A. E. Coppard - The Cherry Tree
Edith Wharton - Afterward The Gentleman From AmericaIf the vast majority of these are (over)familiar from later anthologies, still it's a lovely book to have for the further examples of Lynd Ward's illustrative work. "Dream like" seems about right. |
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Post by dem bones on May 21, 2019 16:26:33 GMT
W. L. George - Perez: (Georgian Stories, 1922: The Golden Book Magazine, April 1934). Best selling author Mr. Warlingham is persecuted by the phantom of his most famous fictional creation. Perez, bloodthirsty pirate, objects to his treatment in Warlingham's latest novel, and: "... That ending of yours is bunkum.... You've no right to create a character and end him up wrong. Especially you've no right to kill him off to save yourself the trouble of writing a few hundred pages more."
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