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Post by mrhappy on Jun 1, 2012 2:11:36 GMT
I would love the copy of Kurt Singer's Horror Omnibus. I reside in the states so just let me know how you would like me to send the postage (paypal, international money order). Whatever you prefer.
And many thanks!
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Post by mrhappy on Jan 15, 2012 2:34:09 GMT
The 2006 edition of Gaslit Nightmares has this notation on the copyright page:
Bibliographical Note: This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is a new anthology of sixteen stories reprinted from the work Gaslit Nightmares: An Anthology of Victorian Tales of Terror, edited by Hugh Lamb, originally published by Futura Publications, London, in 1988.
The Futura volume contains 22 stories. Here is what didn't make the cut:
Bernard Capes - The Black Reaper Charles J. Mansford - Maw-Sayah Dick Donovan - The Mystic Spell Joel Chandler Harris - The Late Mr. Watkins Of Georgia Harriet Beecher Stowe - The Ghost In The mill Mrs G. Linnaeus Banks - The Pride Of The Corbyns
I don't think I would have noticed this if I wasn't looking for a copy of The Black Reaper. I came here and found it listed under Gaslit Nightmares and thought to myself "don't I have that"? Apparently, I did and I didn't.
Oh well, the vault comes through again with useful information and I now have Futura copy on the way. I'm curious to know if the Dover reprint of Gaslit Nightmares 2 is abridged as well. Thankfully I have the Futura edition of that one.
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Post by mrhappy on Nov 24, 2011 1:04:26 GMT
David Campton - A Posthumous Bequest [/color]. I love this man's work! [/quote] Cold Spell - Mary Danby (ed.), Fontana Horror 13, (1980) [/quote] Actually, this one (Cold Spell) was by David Langford - another writer whose work I enjoy. I really, really love Campton's work and a million thanks for bringing my attention to the story that appeared in All Hallows #5. Now I just have to find it! Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Oct 8, 2011 21:10:50 GMT
I think this is The Last to Be Found by Christopher Harman. This appears in Datlow, Link and Grant's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twentieth Annual Collection.
Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 10, 2011 20:03:58 GMT
Just finished Bernard Taylor's 1999 release Since Ruby. Enjoyable but not remarkable. This appears to be the bridge novel between his horror and suspense output. While the events are definitely horrific, this novel is rightfully filed under mystery.
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 6, 2011 10:52:41 GMT
In regard to the selections for this set, John Pelan mentioned that he had selected three stories for this collection that he was unable to obtain permission to use. This was posted years ago on the ghost-stories use.net board. One of these was L. P. Hartley's "Podolo" (1948). Another was J.G. Ballard's "The Dead Astronaut" (1968). Does anyone have any inside information on what the third story was? Also, I seem to recall David Hartwell wanting to include "The Dead Astronaut" in The Dark Descent and running into similar difficulty.
Mr. Happy
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 6, 2011 2:20:48 GMT
Hello all!
Let start by saying this is my first post but I have been following this site for many years. The amount of effort put forth by everyone is amazing! This is a true labor of love and I thank you all.
When the contents of this book were announced I decided to enter the titles into my database (a gross overstatement - actually my "database" is a text file consisting of novels and collections that I own. This was started on a commodore 64 when I was in highschool and has been ported over to many computers since then) and see how many of these stories I actually own. The results came in and I still needed 7 or 8 to have them all. Now after purchasing these titles I decided to see how many books (or magazines) you would have to purchase to have the entire set. The smallest amount I came up with was 72 seperate publications. This came up to 54 antholgies, 12 single author collections and 6 magazines. I thought this would be a good place to share these results. So here you go:
Table of Contents:
1901: Barry Pain - The Undying Thing (Gaslit Nightmares ed. Lamb) 1902: W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw (The Horror Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg) 1903: H. G.Wells - The Valley of the Spiders (Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural ed. Malzberg, Greenberg & Pronzini) 1904: Arthur Machen - The White People (The Horror Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg) 1905: R. Murray Gilchrist - The Lover's Ordeal (A Night of the Moor and Other Tales of Dread) 1906: Edward Lucas White - House of the Nightmare (Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories ed. Kaye) 1907: Algernon Blackwood - The Willows (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1908: Perceval Landon - Thurnley Abbey (65 Great Spine Chillers ed. Danby) 1909: Violet Hunt - The Coach (Rod Serling’s Devils and Demons ed. Serling) 1910: William Hope Hodgson - The Whistling Room (Great Vampire Stories ed. Anon. {Chancellor Press}) 1911: M. R. James - Casting the Runes (The Horror Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg) 1912: E. F. Benson - Caterpillars (65 Great Spine Chillers ed. Danby) 1913: Aleister Crowley - The Testament of Magdelan Blair (Don’t Open This Book! ed. Kaye) 1914: M. P. Shiel - The Place of Pain (Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada ed. Colombo) 1915: Hanns Heinz Ewers - The Spider (Wolf’s Complete Book of Terror ed. Wolf) 1916: Lord Dunsany - Thirteen at Table (The Supernatural Reader ed. Conklin) 1917: Frederick Stuart Greene - The Black Pool (The Grim 13 ed. Greene) 1918: H. De Vere Stacpoole - The Middle Bedroom (Fantastic Novels Magazine March 1948 ed. Gnaedinger) 1919: Ulric Daubeny - The Sumach (Dracula’s Brood ed. Dalby) 1920: Maurice Level - In the Light of the Red Lamp (100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment ed. Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg) 1921: Vincent O'Sullivan - Master of Fallen Years (The Best Short Stories of 1921 and Yearbook of ed. O’Brien) 1922: Walter de la Mare - Seaton's Aunt (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1923: George Allan England - The Thing from Outside (Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada ed. Colombo) 1924: C. M. Eddy - The Loved Dead (The Unspeakable People ed. Haining) 1925: John Metcalfe - The Smoking Leg (The Night Side ed. Derleth) 1926: H. P. Lovecraft - The Outsider (The Unspeakable People ed. Haining) 1927: Donald Wandrei - The Red Brain (Weird Tales #3 ed. Carter) 1928: H. R. Wakefield - The Red Lodge (A Tide of Terror ed. Lamb) 1929: Eleanor Scott - Celui-La (A Wave of Fear ed. Lamb) 1930: Rosalie Muspratt - The Spirit of Stonehenge (The Supernatural Omnibus ed. Summers) 1931: Henry S. Whitehead - Cassius (Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fear and Trembling ed. Hitchcock) 1932: David H. Keller - The Thing in the Cellar (65 Great Spine Chillers ed. Danby) 1933: C. L. Moore - Shambleau (Vampires ed. Ryan) 1934: L. A. Lewis - The Tower of Moab (Return from the Grave ed. Lamb) 1935: Clark Ashton Smith - The Dark Eidolon (Out of Space and Time Vol. I) 1936: Thorp McClusky - The Crawling Horror (The Avon Fantasy Reader ed. Wollheim & Ernsberger) 1937: Howard Wandrei - The Eerie Mr. Murphy (The Night Side ed. Derleth) 1938: Robert E. Howard - Pigeons from Hell (The Horror Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg) 1939: Robert Barbour Johnson - Far Below (Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors ed. Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg) 1940: John Collier - Evening Primrose (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1941: C. M. Kornbluth - The Words of Guru (The Fantasy Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg) 1942: Jane Rice - The Idol of the Flies (The Unspeakable People ed. Haining) 1943: Anthony Boucher - They Bite (Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories ed. Kaye) 1944: Ray Bradbury - The Jar (Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fear and Trembling ed. Hitchcock) 1945: August Derleth - Carousel (The Freak Show ed. Haining) 1946: Manly Wade Wellman - Shonokin Town (Weird Tales July, 1946 ed. McIlwraith) 1947: Theodore Sturgeon - Bianca's Hands (The Unspeakable People ed. Haining) 1948: Shirley Jackson - The Lottery (Wolf’s Complete Book of Terror ed. Wolf) 1949: Nigel Kneale - The Pond (65 Great Spine Chillers ed. Danby) 1950: Richard Matheson - Born of Man & Woman (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1951: Russell Kirk - Uncle Isaiah (Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales) 1952: Eric Frank Russell - I Am Nothing (There Will Be War ed. Pournelle & Carr) 1953: Robert Sheckley - The Altar (Untouched by Human Hands) 1954: Everil Worrell - Call Not Their Names (Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors ed. Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg) 1955: Robert Aickman - Ringing the Changes (Great Vampire Stories ed. Anon. {Chancellor Press}) 1956: Richard Wilson - Lonely Road (Those Idiots from Earth) 1957: Clifford Simak - Founding Father (The Worlds of Clifford Simak) 1958: Robert Bloch - That Hell-Bound Train (The Fantasy Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg) 1959: Charles Beaumont - The Howling Man (The Howling Man) 1960: Frederic Brown - The House (Nightmares and Geezenstacks) 1961: Ray Russell – Sardonicus (Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural ed. Malzberg, Greenberg & Pronzini) 1962: Carl Jacobi - The Aquarium (Disclosures in Scarlet) 1963: Robert Arthur - The Mirror of Cagliostro (The Black Magic Omnibus Volume I ed. Haining) 1964: Charles Birkin - A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts (Spawn of Satan) 1965: Jean Ray - The Shadowy Street (Don’t Open This Book! ed. Kaye) 1966: Arthur Porges - The Mirror (Bluebloods ed. Drake) 1967: Norman Spinrad - Carcinoma Angels (Dangerous Visions ed. Ellison) 1968: Anna Hunger - Come (Magazine of Horror July 1968 ed. Lowndes) 1969: Stefan Aletti - The Last Work of Pietro of Apono (Magazine of Horror May 1969 ed. Lowndes) 1970: David A. Riley - The Lurkers in the Abyss (The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. van Thal) 1971: Dorothy K. Haynes - The Derelict Track (The Seventh Ghost Book ed. Timperley) 1972: Gary Brandner - The Price of a Demon (The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series II ed. Davis) 1973: Eddy C. Bertin - Like Two White Spiders (The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series II ed. Davis) 1974: Karl Edward Wagner - Sticks (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1975: David Drake - The Barrow Troll (Whispers ed. Schiff) 1976: Dennis Etchison - It Only Comes Out at Night (Frights ed. McCauley) 1977: Barry Malzberg - The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady (Midnight Specials ed. Pronzini) 1978: Michael Bishop - Within the Walls of Tyre (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1979: Ramsey Campbell - Mackintosh Willy (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1980: Michael Shea - The Autopsy (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1981: Stephen King - The Reach (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell) 1982: Fritz Leiber - Horrible Imaginings (Death ed. Schiff) 1983: David Schow - One for the Horrors (The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XII ed. Wagner) 1984: Bob Leman - The Unhappy Pilgrimage of Clifford M. (Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories) 1985: Michael Reaves - The Night People (The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XIV ed. Wagner) 1986: Tim Powers - Night Moves (Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine April 1988 ed. King) 1987: Ian Watson - Evil Water (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 1987 ed. Ferman) 1988: Joe Lansdale - The Night They Missed the Horror Show (Silver Scream ed. Schow) 1989: Joel Lane - The Earth Wire (The Year’s Best Horror Stories XVIII ed. Wagner) 1990: Elizabeth Massie - Stephen (Best New Horror 2 ed. Jones & Campbell) 1991: Thomas Ligotti - The Glamour (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifth Annual Collection ed. Datlow & Windling) 1992: Poppy Z. Brite - Calcutta Lord of Nerves (Still Dead ed. Skipp & Spector) 1993: Lucy Taylor - The Family Underwater (100 Tiny Tales of Terror ed. Dziemianowicz & Weinberg) 1994: Jack Ketchum - The Box (Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters ed. Slung) 1995: Terry Lamsley - The Toddler (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 7 ed. Jones) 1996: Caitlin R. Kiernan - Tears Seven, Times Salt (Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium ed. Pelan) 1997: Stephen Laws - The Crawl (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 9 ed. Jones) 1998: Brian Hodge - As Above, So Below (Falling Idols) 1999: Glen Hirshberg - Mr. Dark's Carnival (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection ed. Datlow & Windling) 2000: Tim Lebbon - Reconstructing Amy (As the Sun Goes Down)
Note: anthologies and magazines have editors listed. Single author collections do not. Also, this is definitely not the only way to find copies of all these stories - these just represent the books and magazines that I own. If someone can get this list to fewer than 72 titles, please post your shortcut.
I hope this can be of assistance to someone who is on the fence about this collection. My advice - if you are missing more than 10 - 15 of these stories, just buy the two volumes.
Take care and I can't wait to add more to the discussions,
Mr. Happy
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