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Post by franklinmarsh on Jul 26, 2009 12:36:58 GMT
I think this was covered on the old board, but, just in case, here's the '65 Souvenir Press edition with a nifty cover by S R Boldero. The imaginative title leaves a bit to be desired and the whole thing seems to have a bit of a Lovecraftian bias toward the end. |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jul 26, 2009 14:43:35 GMT
The 1969 Corgi edition: Contents
Introduction - Boris Karloff
Frank Gruber - The Thirteenth Floor
Edmond Hamilton - Child Of The Winds
Edgar Allan Poe - The Cask Of Amontillado
John Jakes - The Opener Of The Crypt
August Derleth - The Thing That Walked On The Wind
Evan Hunter - The Scarlet King
Theodore Sturgeon - The Graveyard Reader
C.M. Kornbluth - The Mind Worm
Robert Silverberg - Back From The Grave
Roald Dahl - Man From The South
Robert Bloch - The Opener Of The Way
H.P. Lovecraft - The Haunter Of The Dark
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jul 26, 2009 17:29:32 GMT
That big muppet thing and a rat trapped in a front loading washing machine. Aieeeeeeee!!!!
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jul 26, 2009 22:37:39 GMT
Now I'm going to think of that, every time I look at the cover  . Just what setting do you use for rat  |
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Post by monker on Sept 26, 2009 17:27:10 GMT
Forgive my ignorance but The Thirteenth Floor isn't that story in which patients or patrons of a building are successively moved up a floor as they get progressively sicker is it? If it is then it's a wonder it has not been anthologised more often. I'm probably wrong, however, as I seem to recollect it was a translation from a non English speaking author as opposed to a Weird Tales story. |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 26, 2009 17:35:08 GMT
I'm pretty sure the story you're thinking of is Dino Buzzati's Seven Floors, Monker. Lawyer Giovanni Corte, suffering from an unspecified but non-life threatening illness, is admitted to the brilliant Prof. Dati's private hospital. It's an impressive building, seven stories high where the relatively healthy cases are lodged on the top floor and the terminal cases the bottom. Due to a series of "administrative errors", Corte descends floor by floor despite assurances from successive doctors that there's nothing much wrong with him .....
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Post by monker on Sept 26, 2009 21:53:03 GMT
That's the one, it sounds like I had it a***-end up, so to speak. I don't remember what anthology I read it in.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 27, 2009 7:41:14 GMT
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Post by cromagnonman on Mar 25, 2019 19:40:58 GMT
Found today on the book stalls under Waterloo Bridge. The Ensign Books edition from 1974 with funky period cover. Can't recall ever coming across this particular edition previously.  |
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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 25, 2019 20:30:30 GMT
Haven't seen that one before. Here's the more common Corgi edition:  |
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Post by helrunar on Mar 25, 2019 21:07:04 GMT
Cool cover, Richard! This book seems to have originally been published in May 1965 by Avon Books in the US under the title Boris Karloff's Favorite Horror Stories. That is the only edition that actually has a photo of the Master on the cover.
Nice to find such a gem on an outing!
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Mar 26, 2019 17:40:03 GMT
I really like the cover. It is very period, and no doubt I would have thought it lame in 1974. But today I like it more than the Gorgi one.
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