Roger Elwood & Vic Ghildalia

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Roger Elwood & Vic Ghildalia: The Horror Anthologies

Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - The Little Monsters: Children Of Wonder And Dread (MacFadden, 1969)
Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - Beware The Beasts (MacFadden, 1970)
Vic Ghidalia - The Mummy Walks Among Us (AEP, 1971)
Vic Ghidalia - Dracula's Guest & Other Stories (Xerox Education Publications, 1972)
Vic Ghidalia - Eight Strange Tales (Fawcett, 1972)
Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - The Venus Factor (McFadden, 1972: Manor, 1973, 1977: Nel, 1976)
Vic Ghidalia - Wizards And Warlocks (Manor, 1972)
Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - Young Demons (Avon 1972)
Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - More Little Monsters (Manor,1973)
Vic Ghidalea - The Devils Generation (Lancer, 1973)
Vic Ghidalia - The Oddballs (Manor,1973)
Vic Ghidalia - Gooseflesh (Berkley, 1974)
Roger Elwood (ed.) - The Berserkers (Pocket, June 1974)
Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - Beware More Beasts(Manor, 1975)
Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - Horror Hunters: Nightmare Tales of the Dead (McFadden, 1971: Manor, 1975)
Vic Ghidalia - Nightmare Garden (Manor Books, 1976)
Vic Ghidalia - Feast of Fear (Manor, 1977)
Roger Elwood & Howard Goldsmith Spine-Chillers: Unforgettable Tales of Terror (Doubleday, 1978)

Roger Elwood & Vic Ghidalia (eds.) - The Little Monsters (MacFadden-Bartell, 1969)

August Derleth - The Metronome
Ray Bradbury - Let's Play Poison
Cynthia Asquith - The Playfellow
Henry Kuttner - Mimsy Were The Borogroves
Greye La Spina - The Antimacassar
Algernon Blackwood - Old Clothes
E. F. Benson - How Fear Departed From The Long Gallery
Rudyard Kipling - They

MONSTERS .... only a mother could love

Suddenly it seemed something had gone terrifyingly wrong with all the children ...

HYACINTH changed from a quiet, affectionate child into a sly, secretive imp, devoted to her "imaginary" playmate — the cousin her father had murdered twelve years before.

KATHY'S appetite changed. She cried over and over through the night, "Mom, I'm hungry! I'm hungry!" and, rather than see her starve, her mother was forced to seek new, fresh sources of blood.

Nine-year-old SCOT and two-year-old EMMA took to playing secretly with eccentric toys and conversing meaningfully in meaningless language. Their par­ents tried to believe it was a phase—A psychologist called it madness.

But the truth was far, far more horrifying ...

Roger Elwood (1943-2007) was the Martin Greenberg of his day, editing scores of (mostly SF) anthologies, often in conjunction with Vic Ghidalia.

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Roger Elwood (ed.) - The Berserkers (Pocket, June 1974)

Mike Gross

Roger Elwood - Introduction

Arthur Tofte - The Berserks
K. M. O'Donnell - Trial Of The Blood
Gail Kimberly - The Horseman From Hel
James Blish - The Price Of A Drink
Barry N. Malzberg - As In A Vision Apprehended
R. A. Lafferty - And Mad Undancing Bears
Raylyn Moore - Thaumaturge
William F. Nolan - Coincidence
Daphne Castell - The Patent Medicine Man
Richard A. Lupoff - A Freeway For Draculas
Virginia Kidd - Night And Morning Of The Idiot Child
David Gerrold - Skinflowers
Robin Schaeffer - Form In Remission
James Sallis - Echo
Adrian Cole - The Genuine Article

Endowed with strange powers, driven by atavistic hungers, urged on by voices from other worlds - these are THE BESERKERS, human beings who claim kinship with the werewolf and the vampire.

In these stories:

A diary records a madman's descent in vampirism.
A Polish Jew in 1878 dreams of Hitler's machines of death.
A man awakens one morning to discover flowers growing out of his skin.
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Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - Beware The Beasts (MacFadden-Bartell, 1970)

Cover Art: Jack Foragasso

H. G. Wells - In The Avu Observatory
H. P. Lovecraft - The Cats Of Ulthar
August Derleth - Here, Daemos!
Fritz Leiber - The Hound
Edward Lucas White - The House Of The Nightmare
Rudyard Kipling - The Mark Of The Beast
Bram Stoker - The Squaw
Edgar Allan Poe - Metzengerstein
Greye La Spina - The Tortoise-Shell Cat
Algernon Blackwood - The Wendigo


THE BEAST THAT CROUCHES JUST BEYOND THE LIGHT

In every man's imagination lurks that dreadful shape—the beast that is more horrifying, more dangerous than any human animal. To most people it is just a nightmare, a dream from which they awake to realize the terrors are all in the mind.
But there are some who do not wake ...


The schoolgirl whose roommate presided over doings of the night that no one dared talk about.

The weary traveller taking shelter in a farmhouse whose only inhabitant had been dead for months.

The drunken invader of a primitive temple, who desecrated the gods and suffered their unspeakable revenge.

The businessman who sensed in the midst of crowds the ancient cunning of the werewolf.

Each of them knew the terror that comes only to the few whose senses are alert enough to seethe danger ... but who have no weapons to combat it.




Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - Beware More Beasts (Manor, 1975)

Jack Williamson - Wolves Of Darkness
Saki - Laura
August Derleth - Beyond The Threshold
William Hope Hodgson - The Crew Of The Lancing
Edward D. Hoch - In The Straw
Barry N. Malzberg - A Summary Of Events Leading Up To Bedlam
Thomas N. Scortia - The Worm


FROM GHOULIES AND GHOSTIES AND LONG-LEGGETY BEASTIES AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT, GOOD LORD, DELIVER US!
- Old Cornish Prayer

Man has always lived in fear of the dead, dark hours between sunset and dawn. For it is the time when each small sound creeps up the spine and seizes the brain with terror.

Whether real or imagined, THE BEAST is always with us at night, gnawing away at courage and driv­ing us to the edge of reality — into a grotesque world of creatures spawned in hell.

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Vic Ghidalia - Wizards And Warlocks (Manor, 1972)

This is a collection of Science Fiction "Plus."

It has never before been published in book form.

Robert Bloch - The Secrets Of Sebek
Marc Schorer & August Derleth - In The Left Wing
Clark Ashton Smith - The Necromantis Tale
L. Ron Hubbard - Battle Of Wizards
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown
M. R. James - Casting The Runes
Richard Marsh - The Disappearance Of Mrs. Macrecham
Bruce Elliot - So Sweet As Magic
E. Hoffman Price - Apprentice Magician

Vic Ghidalia & Roger Elwood - Horror Hunters: Nightmare Tales of the Dead (McFadden, 1971: Manor, 1975)

For August Derleth: Those Who Knew Him Will Know Why

Algernon Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries
William Hope Hodgson - The Gateway Of The Monster
H. P. Lovecraft - The Unnamable
Robert E. Howard - The Thing On The Roof
August Derleth - Mr. Ames Devil
Fritz Leiber, jr. - In The X-Ray
Theodore Sturgeon - One Foot And The Grave
Robert Bloch - I Kiss Your Shadow

Blurb:

A TERRIFYING JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN ....
If you have ever seen the shadow of the indescribable then you will understand that there are more things in Heaven . . . in Hell . . . and on earth than most men dream
Join the HORROR HUNTERS on a haunting journey into the world of monstrous creatures, nameless beasts and evil things that find no rest in death.

Exclusive U.K. Distributors David Gold & Son (Holdings) Ltd.

Vic Ghidalia and Roger Elwood (eds.) - The Venus Factor (McFadden, 1972: Manor, 1973, 1977: Nel, 1976)

Cynthia Asquith - "God Grante That She Lye Stille”
Gertrude Atherton - The Foghorn
Agatha Christie - The Last Séance (The Woman Who Stole a Ghost)
Miriam Allen deFord - Against Authority
Zenna Henderson - J-Line to Nowhere
Anne McCaffrey - The Ship Who Disappeared
Rose Sharon [Judith Merril] - The Lady Was a Tramp
C. L. Moore - The Dark Land

Vic Ghidalia - Eight Strange Tales (Fawcett, 1972)

Ray Bradbury - Subterfuge
Walter M. Miller - Dark Benediction
August Derleth - A Wig for Miss DeVore
Clark Ashton Smith - The Second Interment
Robert E. Howard - Dig Me No Grave
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wall Paper
Algernon Blackwood - By Water
Edward Lucas White - The Snout

By masters of fear and fantasy and science fiction: Bradbury; Derleth; Miller; Gilman and others

Vic Ghidalia (ed.) - Nightmare Garden (Manor Books, 1976)

Ken Barr

Never before such creeping menace .... There came a day when the plants took over

Ray Bradbury - Come into My Cellar
Robert Silverberg - The Fangs Of The Trees
Frank Herbert - Seedstock
Kit Reed - The Vine
Seabury Quinn - The Blood Flower
Donald Wandrei - Strange Harvest
R . G. Macready - The Plant Thing
Frank Belknap Long - Step into My Garden
H. G. Wells - The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rappaccini's Daughter

Roger Elwood also edited a phenomenal number of SF anthologies, an example of which is:

Roger Elwood - Future City (Sphere, 1976)

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Macfadden (1971)



CONTENTS:

Ancient Sorceries - Algernon Blackwood
The Gateway of the Monster - William Hope Hodgson
The Unnamable - H. P. Lovecraft
The Thing on the Roof - Robert E. Howard
Mr Ames' Devil - August Derleth
In the X-Ray - Fritz Leiber Jnr.
One Foot and the Grave - Theodore Sturgeon
I Kiss Your Shadow - Robert Bloch

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There's a real Martin Greenbergishness about this pair. They were incredibly prolific anthologists, and you'll find several samples spread over this section including a few for the notorious Manor Books!

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"Between Midnight and the Beyond"

This is our edition. But it is only the half of Horror Hunters - they left a few stories out and did instead a few out of Wizards and Warlocks

Out were Blackwood, Lovecraft, Sturgean and Derleth, instead they put in Derleth/Schorer (In the left wing) - which is idiotic, come to think out it -, Richard Marsh (The Disappereance of Mrs. Macrecham) and a second Bloch (Secret of Sebek). ah, well, this was the monthly book in the Dämonenkiller paperback imprint, so nobody cared. The only information about the stories was on the copyright page; there were no introduction about the writers.

The cover of Horror Hunters was used in the weekly Dämonenkiller later. If memory serves correct it was a tale about some of the heroes who were changed into dolls, with the title "Time of the Dwarfs". Not entireley inappropirate for once

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From The Little Monsters

Lee Brown Coye

Ray Bradbury - "Let's Play Poison!": (Weird Tales, Nov. 1946). "Sometimes I actually believe that children are invaders from another dimension ... Sometimes, I believe children are little monsters thrust out of Hell, because the devil could no longer cope with them." Mr. Howard is maybe entitled to feel a little hostile toward his pupils. Seven years ago he retired from teaching after a mob of under-tens threw an unpopular boy from a third floor window, killing him outright. No charges were ever pressed as it was thought they were too young to understand their crime. Now an illness to a member of staff drags a reluctant Howard back to his profession to provide temporary cover, but his aggressive demeanour serves only to turn the class against him. A roadworks outside his home provides them the perfect means to get rid of him for good.

Another mini horror masterpiece from the same cut as The Playground.

Greye La Spina - The Antimacassar: (Weird Tales, May 1949). Lucy Butterfield, investigating the mysterious disappearance of her friend, Cera Kent, follows the trail to an isolated cottage in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and takes a room there for a week. One night early in her stay, she overhears her landlady, Mrs. Renners in agitated conversation with Aaron Gross, her simple-minded long-term tenant and confidante. Kathy, the sick daughter she keeps locked away in her room, is screaming to be fed. Aaron reminds her of what happened the last time she was let loose on a guest and argues that the time has come to ram a stake through the child and put an end to the horror. Mrs. Renners won't hear of it. Her daughter is suffering and city girls are, after all, expendable.

Assisted by the ghost of Cera, Lucy gets to work on the loom. She's not sure why, but the intricate design she weaves into her towel may be all that stands between her and a dreadful end at the fangs of an infant vampire!

August Derleth - The Metronome: Mrs. Farwell drowns her stepson Jimmy. After the funeral he comes back to see that she doesn't get away with it. The Coroner is mystified by the tiny wet footprints and the fact that Mrs. Farwell seems to have been suffocated with damp rags.

E. F. Benson - How Fear Departed From The Long Gallery: The sporting mad Peverils of Church-Peveril House are haunted around the clock by the ghosts of their ancestors. The Blue Lady is a bit of a bore, but they've grown rather fond of the spectres of dastardly Sir Anthony and great-great-great Grandmother Bridget who decapitated a man then disembowelled herself with a sword used at Agincourt. The ghost twins are another matter. This luckless pair perished in the fireplace back in 1602 - they were thrown in by their debauched father, 'Handsome Dick', the most villainous Peveril all - and even young Blanche can find nothing amusing in that. The spectral toddlers visit death or, in the case of the brilliant and beautiful Mrs. Canning , far, far worse, on any who have the ill-luck to set eyes on them.

A wonderfully over-the-top Gothic horror for the most part, which, depending on your point of view, is marred/ rescued by the introduction of kindly cousin Madge whose sympathetic nature puts an end to the curse.

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Vic Ghidalia (ed.) - Satan’s Pets (Manor, 1972)

Philip K. Dick - Out In The Garden (Fantasy Fiction , Aug 1953)
Henry Slesar - Legacy Of Terror (Amazing, Nov. 1958)
Edmond Hamilton - The Dogs Of Doctor Dwann (Weird Tales, Oct. 1932)
Robert Bloch - Lefty Feep Gets Henpecked (Fantastic Adventures, April 1945)
David H. Keller, M.D - The Rat Racket (Amazing , Nov. 1931)
Murray Leinster - Keyhole (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Dec. 1951)
Harvey Jacobs - Thanks From The Whole Bouquet (Nugget, Sept. 1965)
Nelson S. Bond - The Remarkable Talent Of Egbert Haw (Blue Book, Dec. 1941)
H. Russell Wakefield - The Animals in the Case (August Derleth [ed.]'s Dark Mind, Dark Heart,, 1962)
E. F. Benson - The Cat (Illustrated London News, 27th Nov. 1905)

Another for the Ghidalia/ Elwood horror checklist - a 'When Animals Attack' special, no less. How could we have overlooked it?