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Post by jonathan122 on Aug 6, 2009 11:21:10 GMT
19 Tales of Terror - edited by Whit and Hallie Burnett (Bantam 1957)
Return of the Griffins - A. E. Shandeling
The White Quail - John Steinbeck
The Two Bottles of Relish - Lord Dunsany
Paul's Tale - Mary Norton
Lord Mountdrago - W. Somerset Maugham
The Cat - Gloria Neustadt Biggs
The Young Man with the Carnation - Isak Dinesen
The Foot of the Giant - Robert W. Cochran
I Am Edgar - Jerry Wexler
The Calling Cards - Ivan Bunin
The Night of the Gran Baile Mascara - Whit Burnett
The Screen - May Sarton
Totentanz - Angus Wilson
The Salamander - W. B. Seabrook
The Murder on Jefferson Street - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
John Duffy's Brother - Flann O'Brien
Forever Florida - Felicia Gizycka
The Blond Dog - Louis Clyde Stoumen
The Childish Thing - John Metcalfe
Apart from Lord Dunsany's classic, I don't think I've read any of these before, but there are some interesting names here.
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Post by Steve on Aug 6, 2009 16:12:36 GMT
Apart from Lord Dunsany's classic, I don't think I've read any of these before, but there are some interesting names here. Indeed. I'd be very interested to know more about the Flann O'Brien story if you feel like sharing your thoughts once you've read this. Looks like a nicely offbeat collection. |
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Post by jonathan122 on Aug 8, 2009 1:08:33 GMT
Apart from Lord Dunsany's classic, I don't think I've read any of these before, but there are some interesting names here. Indeed. I'd be very interested to know more about the Flann O'Brien story if you feel like sharing your thoughts once you've read this. Looks like a nicely offbeat collection. The Flann O'Brien piece is quite short, and is basically about someone who wakes up, thinks that he's a train (the 9:20 to Dublin to be precise) and then realises that he isn't. It's pretty well-written, but I'm not entirely sure why it's here. Have you read The Third Policeman, Steve? |
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Post by vaughan on Aug 8, 2009 2:33:37 GMT
If I might interject with a useless piece of tangential aside.... Have you heard Django Bates album based on The Third Policeman?  A most excellent work! |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 8, 2009 17:31:14 GMT
No but the third policeman was rather good
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Post by dem bones on Aug 9, 2009 15:12:24 GMT
Is 19 Tales of Terror a hardback, jonathan? The only other antho of the Burnett's i've seen is Things With Claws (Ballantine, 1961) which reprints the Shandeling and Seabrook stories. |
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Post by jonathan122 on Aug 9, 2009 18:39:56 GMT
Is 19 Tales of Terror a hardback, jonathan? The only other antho of the Burnett's i've seen is Things With Claws (Ballantine, 1961) which reprints the Shandeling and Seabrook stories. It's a paperback, dem. There's no mention of any earlier printings, so I'm guessing there wasn't a hardback edition. |
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Post by andydecker on Jul 24, 2023 10:43:12 GMT
Whit & Hallie Burnet (ed.) - 19 Tales of Terror (Bantam Books, 1957, 229 pages)  Cover: Tom Hill Cover found on the net. Thanks to the original scanner.
Seems to have been a rather unusual selection. Whit Burnett was the founder and editor of the literary magazine Story in the 1940. Considering he published writer like Charles Bukowski, Erskine Caldwell, John Cheever and Tennessee Williams among other well known names, I suppose the selection here tends more to material which was published in magazines like Collier's or his own Story than Ellery Queen's or Weird Tales. |
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Post by helrunar on Jul 24, 2023 15:03:49 GMT
This one looks like a gem. I may have to look for that.
Thanks, Steve
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