Jeremy Scott: At Close of Eve

[alansjf]

Scott's follow-up to The Mandrake Root:

At Close of Eve - An Anthology of New Curious Stories (Jarrolds, 1947)



James Hanley - A Walk in the Wilderness
G.W. Stonier - Table for Two
Pamela Hansford Johnson - Sloan Square
Louis Marlow - Time Can Frisk
Affleck Graves - Catch ‘Em Round the Bend
John Atkins - The Souls That Got Mixed Up
Stevie Smith - Is There life Beyond the Gravy?
James Laver - The Chateau of the Singing Stream
Reginald Moore - The One Who Was Waiting
Dorothy K. Haynes - Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch…
David Green - Nine Days’ Wonder
Elizabeth Berridge - The Autograph
John Heath-Stubbs - The Swan
Fred Urquhart - Sailors, Beware of Witches
Norah Lofts - Mr Edward
L.J. Daventry - Autumnal Equinox
Inez Holden - Free Wheel
William Montgomerie - Berlin Fantasia
Phyllis Shand Allfrey - The Eyrie
Frank Baker - Art Thou Languid?
Julian Orde - The Florist
William Sansom - Crabfroth

Not your usual genre fare, but there's Haynes' classic 'Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch...', and several authors - Urquhart, Baker, Sansom - who'd make regualar appearances in Denys Val Baker's various Kimber anthologies.

[dem bones]

I've not been around for a week and what a lovely surprise to find this, the elusive William Kimber's and the Rosemary Timperley Ghost Books have been posted up! Thanks Alan! Is it OK if I add them to thee site (with credit, obviously: if you're OK with the idea, pm me as to how you wish to been credited).

Never seen a copy of At Close Of Eve but I seem to recall reading (in Bleiler ?) that it's a mixture of stories and articles?

[alansjf]

demonik, At Close of Eve is an all-fiction anthology, as far as I can remember - it's a while since I first read it.

I think The Mandrake Root may be all-fiction too (I was going to post that cover as well, but the copy I thought I had turned out to be a copy of something else.

Are you thinking of Kay Dick's The Uncertain Element? That one does have some non-fiction; I definitely do have a copy - somewhere. I'll post the cover and TOC once I find it...

[dem bones]

May 30, 2008 8:25:58 GMT alansjf said:

Are you thinking of Kay Dick's The Uncertain Element? That one does have some non-fiction; I definitely do have a copy - somewhere. I'll post the cover and TOC once I find it...

Hi Alan - yes, it's The Uncertain Element I had in mind. I've a copy of The Mandrake's Root though, sadly, minus dustjacket.

The post-war to Pan Horror's period seems to be least documented in terms of UK anthologies so it's an interesting one for us to cover. Thanks so much for filling in the blanks!

Jeremy Scott (Kay Dick) – The Mandrake Root: an Anthology of Fantastic Tales (Jarrolds & Sons, 1946)

Introduction – Jeremy Scott

The Extravagant

James Joyce – Everlasting Fire
Algernon Blackwood – The Man Who Was Milligan
Richard Hughes – The Stranger
Dorothy K. Haynes – The Changeling
D. H. Lawrence – The Last Laugh

The Grotesque

Thomas Ingoldby (R. H. Barham) – The Leech Of Folkestone
E. Bulwer-Lytton – The Haunted and The Haunters
Fred Marnau – The Wrinkled Women Of St. Nepomuk
Alex Comfort – The Lemmings
Arthur Calder-Marshall – Pickle My Bones

The Bizarre

Thomas De Quincey – Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
Guy de Maupassant – The Horla
Virginia Wolfe – The Lady In The Looking Glass: A Reflection
William Sansom – The Peach House Potting Shed
Wrey Gardiner – The White House
Olive Shreiner – Who Knocks At The Door

The Fanciful

Stella Benson – An Air-Raid Seen From Above
Saki – The Open Window
Richard Garnett – The Bell Of St. Euschemon
E. M. Forster – The Story Of A Panic

The Quaint

M. R. James – “Oh, Whistle And I’ll Come To You, My Lad”
T. F. Powys – No Room
Pamela Hansford-Johnson – Altarwise By Owl-Light
Walter de la Mare – Winter

The Eerie

J. S. le Fanu – The Familiar
James Laver – Mr. Hopkins And Galatea
John Atkins – The Diary Of William Carpenter
Sir Osbert Sitwell – The Greeting

A Selective Bibliography (Chiefly Of Shorter Pieces) For The Enthusiast.