List of paperback imprint checklists

[humgoo]

I just need such a list, so bear with me ...

Arrow 1960-70s

Arrow/Legend 1980s

Ballantine

Corgi 1960s

Corgi 1970-80s

Coronet

Everest

Fawcett

Fontana

Four Square

Futura 1970s

Futura 1980s

Grafton

Hamlyn

Leisure

NEL 1970s

NEL 1980s

NEL 1990s

Orbit

Pan 1950-60s

Pan 1970-80s

Paperback Library

Panther

Pocket

Pyramid

Sphere 1970s

Sphere 1980s

Star

Tandem

TOR 1980s

TOR 1990s

Zebra

[gloomy sundae]

Don't forget junkmonkey's exhaustive guide to Digit. Dread to look, but it would come as no surprise if several of those threads have cover scans need replacing ...

Badger Books

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[andydecker]

I would add Belmont Tower and Granada Mayflower, but we have no sperate lists of them.

[dem bones]

May 1, 2023 11:59:37 GMT andydecker said:

I would add Belmont Tower and Granada Mayflower, but we have no sperate lists of them.

Made a start on Mayflower on wordpress blog some years back before getting sidetracked and losing momentum. Morbid Mayflowers

Mayflower Horror Titles

Anthologies

Syd Bentif (ed.) – Horror Anthology (1965)
August Derleth – Dark Mind, Dark Heart (1963, 1970)
Peter Haining – Where Nightmares Are (1966)
Peter Haining – The Satanists (1971)
Peter Haining – Christopher Lee’s New Chamber Of Horrors (1976)
Peter Haining (ed.) – More Of Christopher Lee’s New Chamber Of Horrors (1976)
Alfred Hitchcock – Bar The Doors (1972, 1977)
Michel Parry – 1st Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1974)
Michel Parry – 2nd Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1974)
Michel Parry – 3rd Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1975)
Michel Parry – 4th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1976)
Michel Parry – 5th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1976)
Michel Parry – 6th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1977)
Michel Parry – Jack The Knife:: Tales of Jack the Ripper (1975)
Michel Parry – Christopher Lee’s Omnibus Of Evil (1978)
James Turner – The Unlikely Ghosts (1969)

Collections

Robert Aickman & Elizabeth Jane Howard – We Are For The Dark (1964)
Michael Avallone – Tales of the Frightened (1964)
Noel Langley – Tales Of Mystery And Revenge (1969)
Henry S. Whitehead – The Black Beast & Other Voodoo Tales (1976)
Henry S. Whitehead – Jumbee & Other Voodoo Tales (1976)

Novels

W. A. Ballinger – Drums of the Dark Gods (1966)
Brian Ball – Witchfinder: The Evil at Monteine (1977)
Brian Ball – Witchfinder: Mark Of The Beast (1976)
Richard Lewis – Rabid (1977, 1978)
Peter Saxon – The Torturer (1966)
Peter Saxon – The Disorientated Man (1966)
Peter Saxon – The Darkest Night (1966)
Peter Saxon – Dark Ways To Death (1970)
Peter Saxon – The Haunting of Alan Mais (1970)
Peter Saxon – Satan’s Child (1967, 1970)
Martin Thomas – The Hand Of Cain (1966)
Gordon Williams – The Siege Of Trencher’s Farm (1971)

Mayflower also published a number of ‘non-fiction’ items relating to Witchcraft, Black Magic and the Occult including;

‘A Witch’ (E.A St George) – The Devils Prayer Book (1974)
Gillian Tindall (ed.) – A Handbook On Witches (1972)
Anthony Masters – The Natural History Of The Vampire (1974)
John Symonds – The Great Beast: The Life And Magick Of Aleister Crowley (1973)

Thanks to Justin of Paperback Dungeon for suggesting the Bentif and Avallone titles and to Severance of Vault Of Evil for providing the Brian Ball entries.

I'm sure there must be more.

[dem bones]

Instant Belmont listing.

These are the macabre titles, including Gothic Romances, I recognised from the exhaustive Belmont listing in Jon Warren's Official Price Guide: Paperbacks (House of Collectibles, 1991). There may be more, though Belmont/ Belmont-Tower evidently favoured SF and sleaze over horror & supernatural.

1961
Dashiell Hammett [ed.] - Creeps by Night
Robert Bloch - Nightmares
Dashiell Hammett [ed.] - The Red Brain
Frank [Belknap] Long - The Horror Expert

1962
Robert Bloch - Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
Robert Bloch - More Nightmares
Robert Bloch - More Nightmares
Groff Conklin [ed.] - Twisted

1963
Robert Bloch - Horror-7
Michael Avallone - Tales of the Frightened
Michael Avallone - Shock Corridor
Frank Belknap Long - The Hounds of Tindalos

1964
Frank Belknap Long - The Dark Beasts
August Derleth - Mr. George and Other Odd Persons

1965
H. P. Lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Lyne Kenyon Engel [ed] - Basil Rathbone selects Strange Tales

1966
Evelyn Bond - Heritage of Fear

1967
Bernhardt J. Hurwood - Monsters and Nightmares
Robert Bloch - The Living Demons
Virginia Coffman - A Few Fiends to Tea

1968
Mary Reisner - Bride of Death
Mary Reisner - Death Hall

1969
Robert Bloch - Dragons and Nightmares

1970
Peter Saxon - Vampire's Moon

[helrunar]

Gorgeous scans. I had no idea Hammett edited horror anthologies. I presume these were reprints from earlier publications since Hammett died in 1961.

Hel.

[jamesdoig]

May 1, 2023 18:09:43 GMT dem bones said:

Instant Belmont listing.

I've a few Belmonts, but not many - a lot of those titles were published by Four Sqaure in the UK

[helrunar]

Beautiful scans. I love the cover for the Basil Rathbone anthology. I had to look up the contents on isfdb. A very creaky selection even for 1965 which is the date this site provides for this volume:

7 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
18 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
52 • The House and the Brain • (1899) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859)
95 • The Trial for Murder • (1928) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
108 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1869) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
145 • A Terribly Strange Bed • (1852) • short story by Wilkie Collins

Thanks, James!

Hel.

[dem bones]

May 1, 2023 20:48:55 GMT helrunar said:

Gorgeous scans. I had no idea Hammett edited horror anthologies. I presume these were reprints from earlier publications since Hammett died in 1961.

Hel.

They were. The original Creeps by Night: Chills and Thrills was published by John Day in 1931. The following year, Gollancz published a UK edition as Modern Tales of Horror. Three decades on first
Belmont and then NEL reissued the contents over two paperbacks. It's a quirky selection, apparently chosen by Hammett himself, which makes it a shame he didn't get to edit another. Creeps by Night

Bought a copy of the Gollancz edition from the Fantasy Center several centuries ago. Previous owner pasted in their bookplate.

[helrunar]

Very cool to see that bookplate! Looks as if it could have done double duty as a bookmark, when still loose.

cheers! Hel.