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Post by dem on Oct 23, 2008 21:44:51 GMT
The Great Writers: 10 Classic Writers Of The Supernatural (Marshall Cavendish, unnumbered Christmas issue, 1988) Overall editor: Sylvia Goulding Issue editor: Geraldine McCaughrean The series had already devoted issues to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but the Christmas 1988 issue was a bit special. There were two long-ish, very readable and tastefully illustrated essays - The Golden Age Of Ghosts and Ghost Haunts ("for those who want to believe"), plus short and sweet biographies of the ten 'Masters of Terror' whose stories comprise the accompanying hardback. Anthology Of Fear: 20 Haunting Stories For Winter Nights (Marshall Cavendish, 1988)  Mary Braddon - The Cold Embrace
Mary Braddon - Eveline's Visitant
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown
Washington Irving - Guests From Gibbets Island
Washington Irving - The Lady With The Velvet Collar
W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
M. R. James - Count Magnus
M. R. James - The Mezzotint
M. R. James - 'Oh Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad"
J. S. Le Fanu - The Sexton's Adventure
J. S. Le Fanu - Carmilla
Frederick Marryat - The White Wolf Of The Hartz Mountains
Edith Nesbit - Man-Size In Marble
Edith Nesbit - John Charrington's Wedding
Bram Stoker - The Judge's House
Bram Stoker - The Squaw
Bram Stoker - Dracula's Guest
Edith Wharton - The Lady's Maid's Bell
Edith Wharton - Afterward Nothing most of us won't already have (most likely several times over), but that's hardly the point and the book looks so beautiful that it seems churlish to moan, but .... Carmilla: not only do they abridge it, they omit the all-important last paragraph! This is very bad form indeed. I can no longer trust this book!
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