Panther bibliography

[justin]

Below is the biblio of Panther horror titles in the 1960s and 1970s I've been compiling for an issue of The Fanatic.

On the basis the knowledge of memebers of thos board never ceases to amaze me, I'm posting it to request any additions or corrections.

And unless your name is Dem you can't post this listing elsewhere!

The Finger and the Moon, Geoffrey Ashe, 1975
The Edge, Charles Beaumont, 1966
Shadow Play, Charles Beaumont, 1964
The Horror Horn, E F Benson, 1974
My Name is Death, Charles Birkin, 1966
Children of the Night, John Blackburn, 1970
House of the Hatchet, Robert Bloch, 1976
The Opener of the Way, Robert Bloch, 1976
The Small Assassin, Ray Bradbury, 1976
Great Tales of Terror, R C Bull, 1963
Lovecraft, Lin Carter, 1975
Cavalcade of Ghosts, E Thurston Hopkins, 1963
Sleep No More, August Derleth, 1964
Who Knocks? August Derleth, 1965
The Mask of Cthulhu, August Derleth, 1976
The Trail of Cthulhu, August Derleth, 1976
Mind at Bay, Christopher Evans, 1969
Mind in Chains, Christopher Evans, 1970
The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson, 1969
Carnacki the Ghost Finder, William Hope Hodgson, 1973
The Skull Face Omnibus 1, 2 & 3, Robert E Howard, 1976
The Dark Man Vols 1 & 2, Robert E Howard, 1979
The Tomb From Beyond, Carl Jacobi, 1977
Revelations in Black, Carl Jacobi, 1977
Night Monsters, fritz Leiber, 1975
Hounds of Tindalos, Frank Belknapp Long, 1975
The Case of Dr Charles Dexter Ward, H P Lovecraft, 1963
The Haunter of the Dark, 1963
The lurking Fear, 1964
At The Mountains of madness, 1968
Dagon, 1969
The Tomb, 1969
The Lurker at the Threshold, 1970
The Horror In the Burying Ground, 1975
The Horror in the Museum, H P Lovecraft and others, 1975
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Vols 1 and 2, Lovecraft and various, 1975
Tales of Horror and The Supernatural, Arthur Machen, 1963
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, Vols 1 & 2, Arthur Machen, 1976
Circus of Horrors, Tom Owen, 1960
More Stories Strange and Sinister, Pizer, 1967
Bizarre and Arabesque, Poe, 1967
The First Panther Book of Horror, Anthony Rampton, 1965
Horror Omnibus, Kurt Singer, 1965
The World’s Greatest Stories of the Occult, Kurt Singer, 1965
In the Dead of the Night, Michael Sissons, 1962
The Masque of Red Death, Michael Sissons, 1964
Genius Loci, Smith, 1974
The Abominations of Yondo, 1974
Lost Worlds, 2 vols, 1974
Out of Space and Time, 2 vols, 1974
Other Dimensions, 2 vols, 1977
Tales of Science and Sorcery, 1976
The Supernatural Omnibus, 2 vols, Montague Summers, 1967
Great Ghost Stories, Herbert Van Thal, 1962
Famous Tales of the Fantastic, Van Thal, 1967
Tales of the Supernatural, 1963
The Philosopher’s Stone, Colin Wilson
The Mind Parasites, Colin Wilson
Tales of the Uncanny, unknown, 1964
Who Walk in Fear, ?
The Lonesome Monster, Nelson Longreen, 1963

[dem bones]

Hi Justin

pantherhorror.wordpress.com/

This is as far as i've got with the Panther stuff but there's been no update for a while now. i'll have a look see if anything else has turned up in the meantime and get back in the week.

[jkdunham]

A few more for consideration that I couldn't see on the list;

Yet another Lovecraft collection...
The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror
H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, 1970

also

Way Of The Werewolf
ed. Douglas Hill, 1966

Prevailing Spirits, A Book of Scottish Ghost Stories
ed. Giles Gordon, 1977

Catacombs, Jay Bennett, 1961

The Werewolf of Paris, Guy Endore, 1963

To Walk The Night, William Sloane, 1965

The Edge of Running Water (also published as 'The Unquiet Corpse')
William Sloane, 1965

Willard ('Ratman's Notebooks'), Stephen Gilbert (Gilbert Ralston)
The cover shown above is the 1973 edition, I believe the first Panther was a 1971 film tie-in.

You've got The Small Assassin on your list. Panther published quite a lot of Ray Bradbury during this period, not all of it could be categorised as 'horror' of course but I'd be inclined to include...

The October Country, 1976

Long After Midnight, 1978

There was another Frank Belknapp Long collection too;

The Black Druid, 1975

Also more Leiber;

The Secret Songs, 1975

with at least some horror content.

Likewise...

Dark Tides, Eric Frank Russell, 1963

It can get a bit tricky with these sorts of lists when it comes to what should be included - exactly what qualifies as 'horror' and what's 'science fiction', 'fantasy', 'mystery' or what have you. What criteria are you using?

P.S.

I haven't checked all the dates but I'm wondering...

Tales Of The Uncanny, First Panther 1962?

Who Knocks, First 1964?

Aug 23, 2008 8:07:54 GMT justin said:

The Lonesome Monster, Nelson Longreen, 1963

Could this perhaps be Nelson Algren's Book Of Lonesome Monsters, Panther, 1964? If so it's a collection of writing by the likes of Joseph Heller, Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, edited by Nelson Algren (author of The Man With the Golden Arm) and is non-horror.

[dem bones]

S, you're right. The Panther Who Knocks ? is definitely December 1964.

The anonymously edited Tales Of The Supernatural is July 1962.

While I think of it, we've not had R. C. Bull's Great Tales of Terror on here yet, have we? Would appreciate a cover scan/ contents list if anyone can oblige!

[sean]

I konw this is already on the list but here's a bit more about it. Dunno if this is any help, but anyways...

The Lurker at the Threshold
by H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth (although I think I'm right in saying that it's pretty much all Derleth's work, based on a 'fragment' by Howie-baby. Anyway its copyrighted to Derleth alone 1943. Panther first got its grubby mitts on it 1970, and reprinted it in 1973 (the edition below):


Fuckit, may as well do the blurb while I'm here...

On the edge of time, the Old Ones prepared their ancient evil...

The old mansion in Billington's Wood had stood empty and shunned for over a hundred years - until Ambrose Dewart arrived to claim his family inheritance. But Dewart found a terrifying legacy of weirdness awaiting him there: a strange tower surrounded by a ring of stones, a window of coloured glass offering glimpses into some dimension of unearthly horror, a library of dark and secret lore - and local legends involving mysterious rites and the conjuration of vile, age-old Powers from beyond space and time.

Most frightening of all, Dewart found his arrival had brought these horrors to life again. And the Lurker was once more preparing to cross the threshold...

H.P. LOVECRAFT and August Derleth, two of the greatest-ever masters of the macabre, have created a chilling novel of ultimate evil that will grip your soul in a fist of ice.

[justin]

This is good stuff guys and exactly what I was hoping for- thanks. You don't know what you don't know, and typically these listings are 95% based on what I have on my shelves.

Some I have got but missed off the list, and with others just made mistakes on dates, but plenty of new titles for me to track down. (abe and amazon postage- ARRRGHHH!)

I'm not sure what my criteria is- I've gone for horror with a bit of fantasy thrown in, but the darker side of it- Howard, Ashton Smith etc. Have excluded Bradbury for that reason, but probably should have included the Belknapp Long and Leiber titles, which I didn't know existed until now.

Know nowt about the following. S can you expand at all?
Prevailing Spirits, A Book of Scottish Ghost Stories
ed. Giles Gordon, 1977
Catacombs, Jay Bennett, 1961
To Walk The Night, William Sloane, 1965
The Edge of Running Water (also published as 'The Unquiet Corpse') William Sloane, 1965

Wish I had known Lonesome Monster wasn't horror before I spunked £5 on an internet copy at the weekend!

[jkdunham]

Aug 26, 2008 19:31:01 GMT justin said:

Wish I had known Lonesome Monster wasn't horror before I spunked £5 on an internet copy at the weekend!

I could be wrong, Justin. It could be a different book entirely. I just thought the title and author sounded like it might be that Nelson Algren book.

I've gone for horror with a bit of fantasy thrown in, but the darker side of it... Have excluded Bradbury for that reason

As I say, if you're going to include The Small Assassin, you should really have The October Country on your list too as it's basically the other half of his Dark Carnival collection.
I've got the Panther edition and not only is it categorised as 'Fantasy & Horror' on the back, the cover with a skeletal grim reaper seen through the empty eye socket of a skull leaves little doubt what kind of book this is. And that's before you even get to the contents; "The Emissary" (included in one of the Pan Horrors, can't remember which. Anyone?), "Skeleton", and "Homecoming" and other of his 'Family' stories... essentially a horror collection and, indeed, an essential horror collection.

can you expand at all?

I can't tell you much more about Prevailing Spirits other than that it's a "A Book of Scottish Ghost Stories". Actually that's not strictly true...
Originally published in 1976 by Hamish Hamilton. The 1977 Panther was its first outing in paperback. Reprinted in 1986 (Grafton), then again in 1996 as Scottish Ghost Stories. 12 stories by Scottish authors, all original to this collection I'm told. Contents as follows;

Holiday by Forbes Bramble
Beliah by George Mackay Brown
The Foothold by Elspeth Davie
A Kind of Possession by James Allan Ford
Who's Been Sitting in My Chair by Antonia Fraser
The Haunted Chimley by Clifford Hanley
The Curator by Dorothy K. Haynes
The Curse of Mathair Nan Uisgeachan by Angus Wolfe Murray
Randal by Robert Nye
The Brothers by Iain Crichton Smith
Proud Lady in a Cage by Fred Urquhart
The Horseshoe Inn by Gordon Williams

Don't have a scan of the Panther cover (believe it was tartan) but here's the Hamish;

_{Cover by Ken Reilly}

Jay Bennett is an Edgar Award winning writer who also wrote scripts for Radio and TV (Alfred Hitchcock Presents). Catacombs was his first novel, originally published in 1959 and described as a 'mystery'. Panther's 1961 paperback pitches it more as a horror novel - "a clinging web of sheer terror" no less. Catacombs was later filmed as The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (1964).


I can tell you a little bit more about the William Sloane books. He only wrote 2 novels and both are sometimes considered to be rather neglected classics. The first, To Walk The Night, was included in James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock's 'Fantasy: The 100 Best Books' securing Sloane something of a reputation and a modest cult following. His work could be categorised as equal parts horror, fantasy, suspense, or even science fiction. To Walk The Night - "She was lovelier than any other woman. How could she be the carrier of some indescribable and inhuman evil?" - was first published in 1937.
The Edge of Running Water (1939) was filmed in 1941 as The Devil Commands with Boris Karloff. The story, set in a quiet backwater of Maine, concerns a scientist trying to establish contact with his dead wife.
Again I can't provide a scan of the Panther edition but here's quite a nice Bantam from 1967;

[justin]

As definitive as ever Dr S. Glad I was able to conjure you up with the spell of a Panther challenge!

[dem bones]

Not sure if this qualifies, although it's certainly horror and likely most of the content errs toward the fictitious, too.

Panther published The Newgate Calendar in three volumes over 1962-3, again in 1968 and possibly on a third occasion during the 'seventies (My copy with the girl on the gallows has half the pages missing!) ?

Vol 2, 1968 edition.

similar quandary with:

Guy Endore - Satan's Saint: De Sade: A Novel About The Man (Panther, 1967)

Blurb:
An uninhibited novel about the most infamous man who has ever lived ... the divine Marquis de Sade ... whose life was a convulsive storm of scandal and fury ...

Was he a monster from hell ... an apostle of the devil ... or a solitary visionary and philosopher, misunderstood by posterity, who glimpsed another world, beyond morality and religion, pain and pleasure, where man and women might together taste the exquisite joys of absolute freedom?


Adding yours and Steve's latest suggestions, I have a list on wordpress that looks like -

Panther Horror In Paperback

Anthologies:

R. C. Bull (ed.) - Great Tales Of Terror (?)
Anon - Tales Of The Supernatural (1962)
R. Thurston Hopkins (ed.) - Cavalcade Of Ghosts (1963)
August Derleth (ed.) - Sleep No More (1964)
August Derleth (ed.) - Who Knocks? (1965)
August Derleth (ed.) - Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos Vol. 1
August Derleth (ed.) - Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos Vol. 2 (1975)
Dr. Christopher Evans (ed.) - Mind At Bay (1970)
Dr. Christopher Evans (ed.) - Mind In Chains (1970)
Giles Gordon (ed.) - Prevailing Spirits, A Book of Scottish Ghost Stories (1977)
Douglas Hill (ed.) - Way of the Werewolf (1966)
H. P. Lovecraft & Various - The Horror In The Burying Ground (1975)
H. P. Lovecraft & Various - The Horror In The Museum (1975)
Michel Parry (ed.) - The Supernatural Solution (1976)
Laurette Naomi Pizer (ed.) - Stories Strange And Sinister (1965)
Laurette Naomi Pizer (ed.) - More Stories Strange And Sinister (1967)
Anthony Rampton (ed) - The Panther Book Of Horror (1965, 1968)
Kurt Singer (ed) - The World’s Greatest Stories Of The Occult (1963)
Kurt Singer (ed) - Horror Omnibus (1966)
John Sissons (ed) - In The Dead Of Night (1962)
Michael Sissons (ed) - The Masque Of The Red Death (1964)
Montague Summers (ed) - The Supernatural Omnibus (2 Vols) (1967)
Herbert Van Thal (ed) - Great Ghost Stories (1962, 1964)
Herbert Van Thal (ed) - Famous Tales Of The Fantastic (1962)
H. G. Wells & Others (ed) - Tales Of The Supernatural (1963)

Single Author:

Charles Beaumont - The Edge (1966)
E. F. Benson - The Horror Horn (1974)
Charles Birkin - My Name Is Death (1966)
Robert Bloch - The House Of The Hatchet (1976)
Robert Bloch - The Opener Of The Way (1976)
Ray Bradbury - The October Country (1976)
Ray Bradbury - The Small Assassin (1976)
Ray Bradbury - Long After Midnight (1978)
Robert E. Howard - Skull Face Omnibus (3 Vols) (1976)
Robert E. Howard - The Dark Man (2 Vols) (1979)
Carl Jacobi - Revelations In Black (1977)
Carl Jacobi - The Tomb From Beyond (1977)
Fritz Leiber - Night Monsters (1975)
Fritz Leiber - The Secret Songs, (1975)
Frank Belknap Long - The Hounds Of Tindalos (1975)
Frank Belknap Long - The Black Druid (1965)
H. P. Lovecraft - The Haunter Of The Dark (1973)
H. P. Lovecraft - The Lurking Fear (1964)
H. P. Lovecraft - Dagon (1969)
H. P. Lovecraft - The Tomb (1969)
H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth - The Shuttered Room (1970)
Arthur Machen - Tales Of Horror & The Supernatural: Vol. 1 (1963, 1975)
Arthur Machen - Tales Of Horror & The Supernatural: Vol. 2 (1963, 1975)
Edgar Allan Poe - Bizarre & Arabesque (1967)
Eric Frank Russell - Dark Tides ( 1963)
Clark Ashton Smith - Genus Loci (1974)
Clark Ashton Smith - The Abominations Of Yondo (1974)
Clark Ashton Smith - Lost Worlds (2 Vols) (1974)
Clark Ashton Smith - Out Of Space And Time (2 Vols) (1974)
Clark Ashton Smith - Other Dimensions (2 Vols) (1977)
Clark Ashton Smith - Tales Of Science & Sorcery (1976)

Novels:

Kingsley Amis - The Green Man (1971)
Geoffrey Ashe - The Finger and the Moon (1975)
Jay Bennett - Catacombs (1961)
John Blackburn - Children Of The Night (1968)
August Derleth - The Mask Of Cthulhu (1976)
Guy Endore - The Werewolf of Paris (1963)
Stephen Gilbert - Willard (1971, 1973)
Peter Van Greenaway - The Medusa Touch (1975)
W. H. Hodgson - The House On The Borderland (1969)
Tom Owen - Circus Of Horrors (1960)
H. P. Lovecraft - The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward (1963)
H. P. Lovecraft - At The Mountains Of Madness (1968)
H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth - The Lurker At The Threshold (1970)
Simon Raven - Doctors Wear Scarlet (1967)
William Sloane - The Edge of Running Water (1965)
William Sloane - To Walk The Night (1965)
Kate Wilhelm - The Killing Thing (1969)
Winifred Wolfe - Never Step on a Rainbow (1970)

[jamesdoig]

A few Panther cover variants of Lovecraft:



The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, 1969



The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, 1973



The Lurker at the Threshold, 1970



The Lurker at the Threshold, 1973



At the Mountains of Madness, 1970

Contents

At the Mountains of Madness
The Dreams in the Witch-House
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Silver Key
Through the Gates of the Silver Key



At the Mountains of Madness, 1973

[marksamuels]

Gotta love those Lovecraft covers. I've got a bunch of Lovecrafts from Mexico that I brought back with me. But I can't find them all amidst the book-strewn chaos that is the garret of Mr and Mrs S.

Mark S.

[marksamuels]

Well, I found some of them.



Mark S.

[allthingshorror]

Non fic I know - but one of interest?


Panther 1973




A FEAST OF EVIL

Engaging in extorition, murder and satanism, borrowing ideas from a variety of weird religious cults ad spicing the resulting devil's brew liberally with drugs and bizzare sex, Charles Manson, veteran of the American prison system, established a commune in the Californian desert with himself as head guru. Ostensibly searching for a new form of community awareness and spirituality, Monson in fact formed his devoted band of young disciples into a literally murderous gang.

Ed Sanders, having explored the demonic world of Manson and the horrific background of the Sharon Tate killings in detail and at considerable personal risk, gives the first valid explanation og how the whole terrifying affair started and proceeded to its inexorable, bloody finale. He also chillingly and convincingly shows how the Family's extraordinary adventures are not the isolated phenomena they were presented as by the news media, but are very much part of our own sick culture.

[franklinmarsh]

That's an odd cover, Johnny! I went through a Manson stage at one time. It's an odd book too. Ed Sanders was a member of beat combo The Fugs and (I think) an Underground journalist so his writing style makes Alex (R) Stuart look positively square.

[allthingshorror]

May 24, 2009 9:23:32 GMT franklinmarsh said:

That's an odd cover, Johnny! I went through a Manson stage at one time. It's an odd book too. Ed Sanders was a member of beat combo The Fugs and (I think) an Underground journalist so his writing style makes Alex (R) Stuart look positively square.

It looks like he's been pulled from the water after living in it for a week.
As to the book, I've been reading it on and off for a few days and it's a powerful work of non fiction.

Peace Out, man.