1 • Haunted Houses: The American Nightmare (Haunted Houses: The Greatest Stories) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg
3 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
27 • The Doll • (1980) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
53 • "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe ... " • (1946) • short story by Robert Bloch (variant of Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...)
67 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
87 • The Children, They Laugh So Sweetly • (1985) • short story by Charles L. Grant
99 • No Hiding Place • (1977) • novelette by Jack L. Chalker
135 • The Right Kind of House • (1957) • short story by Henry Slesar
145 • The Cat Jumps • (1929) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
157 • The House in Bel Aire • (1961) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
163 • The School Friend • (1964) • novelette by Robert Aickman
191 • Ladies in Waiting • (1975) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
203 • The Haunting of Shawley Rectory • (1979) • short story by Ruth Rendell
223 • Teeth Marks • (1979) • short story by Edward Bryant
243 • Dark Winner • (1976) • short story by William F. Nolan
251 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
271 • The Tearing of Greymare House • (1983) • novelette by Michael Reaves
The cover
looks ghastly but that's a JK Potter photo thank you very much, so it's a little more class!
Anyway, this is an eclectic mix that has Greenberg's inimitable oddball knack for selecting a theme and then choosing stories which may not be exemplars of same--I'll concede that "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a haunted house story, after a fashion, but Henry Slesar's exceptional "The Right Kind of House" doesn't, I believe, have a whiff of the supernatural--it's one of those macabre stories that straddles the space between crime and horror, and was accordingly immortalized on
Alfred Hitchcock Presents.Quibbling aside (and that's the fun of it!) this looks like a great selection.
