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Post by mrhappy on Oct 8, 2015 21:02:58 GMT
This one is for all the fellow horror reference lovers out there: Mostly horror based but there are a few science fiction or mystery/crime guides that have cross-over appeal. And almost all of them are library cast-offs. From the top shelf: The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural edited by Jack Sullivan The Supernatural Index edited by Mike Ashley and William Contento The Guide to Supernatural Fiction edited by E. F. Bleiler The St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers edited by David Pringle The St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers edited by David Pringle Supernatural Fiction Writers [1st edition] (2 Volumes) edited by E. F. Bleiler Supernatural Fiction Writers [2nd edition] (2 Volumes) edited by Richard Bleiler Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and Film edited by Leonard Wolf Supernatural Literature of the World (3 Volumes) edited by S. T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1820-1950 edited by Neil Wilson Monthly Terrors: An Index to the Weird Fantasy Magazines Published in the United States and Great Britain edited by Frank H. Parnell Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines edited by Mike Ashley and Marshall B. Tymn The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction edited by Don D'Ammassa
Second shelf: The Weird Tales Story edited by Robert Weinberg Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, T.V., Radio and the Internet edited by Neil Barron Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide edited by Neil Barron Horror Literature: A Core Collection and Reference Guide edited by Marshall B. Tymn Hooked on Horror: A Guide to Reading Interests in Horror Fiction (3 Volumes) edited by Anthony J. Fonseca and June Michele Pulliam The Encyclopedia of Fantasy edited by John Clute and John Grant The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults edited by Ruth Nadelman Lynn Unutterable Horror (2 Volumes) edited by S. T. Joshi How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction edited by J. N. Williamson Discovering Classic Horror Fiction edited by Darrell Schweitzer Discovering Modern Horror Fiction (2 Volumes) edited by Darrell Schweitzer The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction edited by Dorothy Scarborough Danse Macabre by Stephen King A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres edited by Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers edited by John M ReillyThird Shelf: Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror edited by Michael Burgess and Lisa R. Bartle H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror {Includes Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft) edited by Stephen Jones and Dave Carson The Checklist of Science Fiction and Supernatural Fiction edited by E. F. Bleiler Supernatural Fiction for Teens edited by Cosette Kies The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction edited by David Pringle Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film edited by Darryl Jones The Book of Lists: Horror edited by Amy Wallace, Del Howison and Scott Bradley Dark Dreamers - Conversations with the Masters of Horror edited by Stanley Wiater Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction edited by Mike Ashley The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature edited by Brian J. Frost The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature edited by Brian J. Frost The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature edited by Brian J. Frost Horror Reader's Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Vampires, Killer Tomatoes and Haunted Houses edited by Becky Siegel Spratford and Tammy Hennigh Clausen Horror: 100 Best Books edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman Horror: Another 100 Best Books edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman Ghost Writings: A Ghost Story Guide edited by Deborah Bennison Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from LeFanu to Blackwood edited by Jack Sullivan SPWAO 1987 Membership Directory edited by Stephanie Stearns and Margie B. Simon A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction edited by Baird Searles and Martin Last A Reader's Guide to Fantasy edited by Michael Franklin and Baird SearlesI will post some mini-reviews soon. Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 15, 2015 18:13:22 GMT
Mrhappy, I feel as if I should be mrguilty for putting you to all that work... And you should! Just kidding. But your entry is over 10 pages long and I'm about five collections behind. It is one of the largest and still growing! Which is fine by me. Keep 'em coming!
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 6, 2015 16:19:54 GMT
Still no luck with Justin Dowling's legendary The Legs That Walked, but here's the same author on diabolical form with The Living Eyes, Weird Tales, May, 1953. Mrs. Weir's bloodshot orbs, "so prominent, grotesque, hideous and terrifying," may steal the headlines, but it's her dead, useless hands perform the dirty work .... I was literally just searching the net for info. on The Legs That Walked, seems to be very difficult to get hold of. All I can find is a $20 copy of weird Tales Nov. 1953, which along with postage etc would make it at least $25, and that's even supposing they would ship here. Not that I can justify spending that sort of money on one magazine anyway, much as I'd love to. This story appears in the anthology Lovers and Other Monsters edited by Marvin Kaye. Much, much more affordable. Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 4, 2015 18:26:42 GMT
Thank you for all of the kind words. I have really enjoyed watching this list grow over time. The design is set up with an author's name followed by all works of fiction that I own in the following format:
Novels or chapbooks Collections or books featuring more than one work "Short stories" {Poems}
Short stories and poems are followed by their location in my collection... frequently multiple times.
I drew the line at fiction only.
I used to have these color coded against Bleiler's Guide to Supernatural Fiction and Ashley's Supernatural Index. This helped me identify stories that I could not find in these sources. I eventually dumped that because a) it was very time consuming and b) those guys didn't miss too much anyway.
With the rise of online databases (such as ISFDB), this list isn't as useful as it once was. However, I do have works listed that I have not found elsewhere so it isn't completely obsolete yet! :-)
Maybe one day I will finish it and print it as a huge checklist that people can keep track of their reading.
But thank you again for your praise.
Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 4, 2015 2:29:51 GMT
I've a goodreads account for keeping track of novels I've read/currently reading/planning to read etc., but I'd love to find something similar but specifically geared towards short stories. I've come across many, many, many issues/stories of old Weird Tales Magazines and individual stories on a few different sites( archive.org, pulpgen etc.) and thought I'd begin working my way through some of them(and not just limited to Weird Tales of course either). Goodreads allows you to add books that aren't on their site but their rules state that they'll actively remove entries that are specifically short stories unless they're published as stand-alone type efforts, if you see what I mean. Has anybody found anything like this? If not, how do you keep track? Or do you simply use your various posts here on the vault as a kind of makeshift database? The reason I ask is I've noticed how much information about stories and their authors various members seem to have at their disposal and wondered if you've amassed some kind of database of anthological(is that a word d'ya think?) knowledge. If so, I want in... Years ago I started to catalog all of my short stories (from magazines, anthologies, single-author collections and other sources) on an old Commodore-64. It is a huge word document that I have kept moving from computer to computer. This was the only way I found to keep proper track of everything that I had. I would look to purchase a collection of stories and discover that I already had most of them in various other sources so it saved me money in the long run. It is well over 700 pages long at 8 pt. font and I am woefully behind in updating it. Here is a random page from Ramsey Campbell's entry:
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Post by mrhappy on Aug 31, 2015 20:37:00 GMT
I have picked up Black Ceremonies from Amazon.com and will be getting Goblin Mire soon. Any timetable for when the paperback release of The Heaven Maker and Other Stories will pop up there? Been waiting for an affordable copy of that one for a while! Finally, FINALLY ...... out now! The Heaven Maker & Other Gruesome Tales - the paperback! Arrives tomorrow!
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Post by mrhappy on May 31, 2015 21:11:40 GMT
This had me intrigued, Hidden message? Edit: Oh, and that's from page 31 of 438 in the kindle version. Oh yeah, forgot all about that! If secret message there is, my guess would be that it appears early in the proceedings, i.e., prior to 'Alices's tip off, but would not be the least surprised if she's only playing games with us. I'm not going to give the answer here so I don't spoil it but write down the first letter to the first word of every chapter (including the introduction). That will give you the name you are searchimg for ;-) Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Jan 22, 2015 20:44:28 GMT
I have picked up Black Ceremonies from Amazon.com and will be getting Goblin Mire soon. Any timetable for when the paperback release of The Heaven Maker and Other Stories will pop up there? Been waiting for an affordable copy of that one for a while!
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Post by mrhappy on Oct 5, 2014 9:19:40 GMT
I was always a big fan of Nancy Holder's early fiction so I would throw one of her stories in there. Possibly "I Can Hear the Mermaids Singing". Surprisingly, there still isn't a collection of her short fiction.
Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 18, 2014 1:51:37 GMT
Several years late but here you go Dem! Introduction - Sean Richards The Elephant Man - Sir Frederick Treves The Bird Woman - H. Spicer The Reptile Man - Richard Marsh Bal Macabre - Gustav Meyrink The Ghouls of the Marquis D'Outremort - Maurice Renard Spurs - Tod Robbins Dr. Cyclops - Henry Kuttner The Bagheeta - Val Lewton The Secret of Château de Hirtzheim - Maurice Sandoz Hop-Frog - Edgar Allan Poe Unheavenly Twin - Robert Bloch Heavy Set - Ray Bradbury
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Post by mrhappy on Apr 14, 2014 17:23:17 GMT
Thanks to this thread I picked up a copy of this book (different cover mind. Hardback with a cats eye reflecting a cat all in blue). I have three others, which I presume are, from this series; 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories 100 Creepy Little Creature Stories, and 100 Ghastly little Ghost stories. Does anyone know of any other titles in this series? Cheers! There are quite a few, Matt - try this Locus listing for more details. I would also throw 100 Menacing Little Murder stories in here even though Locus considers is non-genre. However, with a line up consisting of, among others, H.R. Wakefield, Hugh B. Cave, Ed Gorman, Donald Wandrei, Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, David Schow and Norman Partridge...well, it is close enough for me. :-) Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Feb 23, 2014 23:34:47 GMT
His short story "Corruption" appeared in Fantasy Macabre #1 (Dave Reeder, London 1980).
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Post by mrhappy on Feb 9, 2014 20:52:40 GMT
The two components, for me at least, that made Hugh Lamb's anthologies enjoyable were rarity of the selections and informative introductions. From 1998-2003 L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims edited two series - Enigmatic Tales (98-00) and Darkness Rising (01-03) - which usually featured a contribution from Mr. Lamb that hit on both of my criteria. Hugh Lamb's Tales from the Grave ran in 9 issues of Enigmatic Tales (the odd boy out was issue 3 which featured a similar column titled Richard Dalby's Ghosts from the Past) and, while not titled, 5 of the 7 regular issues of Darkness Rising featured a similar contribution. Here are the contents listed by issue:
Enigmatic Tales
Issue 1: The Queer Picture - Bernard Capes Issue 1: Ill-Steekit Ephraim - Howard Pease Issue 2: On the Raft - R.E. Vernede Issue 4: His Wife - Zita Inez Ponder Issue 5: The Spectre of Rislip Abbey - Dick Donovan Issue 6: The House in the Wood - H.W.F. Tatham Issue 6: The Skull - Francis C. Prevot Issue 7: The Patch - Phillip Murray Issue 8: Green Slime - J. Dyott Matthews Issue 9: The Serpent Woman - Mrs. S.G.C. Middlemore Issue 10: A Wonderful Guy - George R. Sims
Darkness Rising
Issue 1: Marriott's Monkey - Howard Jones Issue 2: The Black Statue - Huan Mee Issue 3: The Were-wolf - Mrs. S.G.C. Middlemore Issue 4: In the Wheat - Maurice Level Issue 6: Ha! Ha! - George R. Sims
Sixteen stories over 15 issues which would make a slim, but very enjoyable, collection. So for those of you that enjoyed Hugh's work these stories may serve as a kind of encore anthology if you wanted to track them down.
Happy hunting!
Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Apr 5, 2013 0:17:08 GMT
Very, very sad news. One of the last of the giants. He will be missed.
Mr.(Un)Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Aug 3, 2012 2:15:18 GMT
The two Women of Darkness anthologies edited by Kathryn Ptacek would qualifiy.
And Dem - embarrassed? Please. You've probably forogotten more about this stuff than I'll ever know.
Mr Happy
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