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Post by ripper on Aug 22, 2013 12:41:22 GMT
Bought in a charity shop for 25p: a 1988 edition of Murders of the Black Museum 1870-1970 by Gordon Honeycombe.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 22, 2013 17:17:03 GMT
Just ordered 65 Great Tales of Horror and 65 Great Spine Chillers, both edited by Mary Danby. You can't go wrong with these (or 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural). They introduced me to such authors as Joan Aiken, Catherine Gleason, Charles Birkin, Sydney J. Bounds, "Flavia Richardson," Tony Richards, and Terry Tapp--not to mention Danby herself. |
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Post by ripper on Aug 23, 2013 10:07:40 GMT
I was looking at trying to buy some of the Danby-edited Fontana Horror series but many of them either weren't available or going for steep prices. The 65-series seem to feature a fair few of the stories from the Fontanas and were very keenly priced, so I thought it would be a good way of reading the stories at a cheap price. I will probably end up getting the 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural as well :-).
Does anyone know if 65 Great Tales of Murder and Realms of Darkness (both edited by Mary Danby) also feature stories from the Fontanas? I couldn't find contents lists for those two so wasn't sure, but they're both hefty volumes.
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Post by dem on Aug 23, 2013 10:19:03 GMT
I was looking at trying to buy some of the Danby-edited Fontana Horror series but many of them either weren't available or going for steep prices. The 65-series seem to feature a fair few of the stories from the Fontanas and were very keenly priced, so I thought it would be a good way of reading the stories at a cheap price. I will probably end up getting the 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural as well :-). Does anyone know if 65 Great Tales of Murder and Realms of Darkness (both edited by Mary Danby) also feature stories from the Fontanas? I couldn't find contents lists for those two so wasn't sure, but they're both hefty volumes. Not sure about 65 Great Tales of Murder, rip, but Realms of Darkness certainly does: Mary Danby (ed.) – Realms of Darkness (Octopus, 1985) 
Martin Amis – Denton’s Death
Anon – In the Slaughteryard
Anon – The Dead Man of Varley Grange
Robert Arthur – Footsteps Invisible
Denys Val Baker – The Potter’s Art -
E. F. Benson – The Thing in the Hall
Ambrose Bierce – The Boarded Window
Robert Bloch – The Mannikin -
Anthony Boucher – They Bite
Elizabeth Bowen – The Demon Lover -
Marjorie Bowen – The Crown Derby Plate
Christianna Brand – The Kite
John Dickson Carr – Blind Man’s Hood
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Door
Agatha Christie – The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael
Roger Clarke – Blackberries
Adrian Cole – The Moon Web
Frederick Cowles – The Horror of Abbot’s Grange
F. Marion Crawford – The Screaming Skull
Roald Dahl – Pig
Mary Danby – Robbie
August Derleth – The Extra Passenger
William Croft Dickinson – The Witch’s Bone
Amelia B. Edwards – The Four-Fifteen Express
A. E. Ellis – The Haunted Haven
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – The Sexton’s Adventure
John Galt – The Black Ferry
Catherine Gleason – Friends
Winston Graham – The Circus
Davis Grubb – Where the Woodbine Twineth
Willis Hall – Waking or Sleeping
L. P. Hartley – Someone in the Lift
Dorothy K. Haynes – The Peculiar Case of Mrs. Grimmond
C. D. Heriot – The Trapdoor
Patricia Highsmith – The Day of Reckoning
George Hitchcock – An Invitation to the Hunt
Geoffrey Household – Taboo -
Washington Irving – Guests from Gibbet Island
Margaret Irwin – The Book
W. W. Jacobs – The Three Sisters
M. R. James – The Haunted Dolls’ House.
Michael Joseph – The Yellow Cat
Stephen King – The Reaper’s Image
Sterling E. Lanier – Soldier Key
Kay Leith – The Sanguivites
L. A. Lewis – Hybrid
Frank Belknap Long – The Black Druid
F. G. Loring – The Tomb of Sarah
Agnes MacLeod – The Skeleton Hand
W. Somerset Maugham – The Man from Glasgow
Guy de Maupassant – The Hostelry
Edmund Mitchell – The Phantom of the Lake
Arthur Morrison – The Thing in the Upper Room
Edgar Allan Poe – The Tell-Tale Heart
J. B. Priestley – The Demon King
Bill Pronzini – Peekaboo
Tony Richards – The Black Lake
Flavia Richardson – The Red Turret
Agnes Short – Intercom
Henry Slesar – Examination Day
Barnard Stacey – The Devil’s Ape
Bram Stoker – The Judge’s House
Terry Tapp – Polish the Lid
Alan Temperley – Evening Flight
Paul Theroux – Dengué Fever
Christine Campbell Thomson – Message for Margie
Rosemary Timperley – Harry
H. Russell Wakefield – Lucky’s Grove
Hugh Walpole – Tarnhelm
Elizabeth Walter – The Tibetan Box
H. G. Wells – The Sea-Raiders
Simon West (August Derleth) – A Thin Gentleman with Gloves
Dennis Wheatley – The Case of the Haunted Chateau |
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Post by ripper on Aug 23, 2013 16:06:50 GMT
Thanks for that, Dem. I'll be adding Realms of Darkness to my "to get" list :-).
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Post by doomovertheworld on Aug 24, 2013 17:55:14 GMT
I would echo that realms of darkness is rather good. My latest find was this:  although disappointly the version I have doesn't have that awesome art work  |
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Post by dem on Aug 24, 2013 18:28:19 GMT
Here you go, Rip, via our late friend and colleague, Bob 'The Duke' Rothwell. Give or take a few and it's a horror anthology in all but name Mary Danby (ed.) - 65 Great Murder Mysteries
Eric Ambler - The Case of the Emerald Sky
Margot Arnold - Acid Test
Robert Arthur - Eyewitness
Arnold Bennett - The Murder of the Mandarin
Phyllis Bentley - Nemesis
Anthony Berkeley - The Avenging Chance
Robert Bloch - Sweets to the Sweet
Frederic Brown - Nightmare in Yellow
Thomas Burke - The Hands of Mr Ottermole
Ramsey Campbell - Baby
Sidney Carroll - A Note for the Milkman
G.K. Chesterton - The Hammer of God
Agatha Christie - Accident
Marc Connelly - Coroner's Inquest
Rupert Croft-Cooke - Banquo's Chair
John Keir Cross - Esmeralda
Roald Dahl - Lamb to the Slaughter
Charles Dickens - The Trial for Murder
Dick Donovan - The Corpse Light
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Veiled Lodger
Roger F. Dunkley - Surprise! Surprise!
Lord Dunsany - The Two Bottles of Relish
Peter Fleming - The Kill
Miriam Allen de Ford - Something to Do with Figures
C.S. Forester - The Turn of the Tide
Celia Fremlin - The Blood on the Innocents
Mrs Gaskell - The Squire's Story
Robert Graves - Earth to Earth
Stephen Grendon - Mrs Manifold
L.P. Hartley - The Two Vaynes
W.F. Harvey - August Heat
Francis Iles - Dark Journey
W.W. Jacobs - The Well
P.D. James - Moment of Power
Michael Kent - Another Shot in the Locker
Rudyard Kipling - The Return of Imray
Maurice Leblanc - The Lady with the Hatchet
Jack London - A Thousand Deaths
John D. MacDonald - Homicidal Hiccup
William P. McGivern - The Sound of Murder
W. Somerset Maugham - An Official Position
Guy de Maupassant - Vendetta
Andrea Newman - Such a Good Idea
Baroness Orczy - The Regent's Park Murder
Barry Perowne - The Blind Spot
Edgar Allan Poe - The Cask of Amontillado
Sapper - The House by the Headland
Dorothy L. Sayers - Suspicion
Margery Sharp - The Second Step
Georges Simenon - The Case of Arnold Schuttringer
Pauline C. Smith - The People Next Door
Nancy Spain - The King of Spades
Muriel Spark - The Portobello Road
Daniel Steele - Blue Murder Wilbur
John Steinbeck - The Murder
Robert Louis Stevenson - Markheim
Bram Stoker - The Secret of the Growing Gold
Julian Symons - A Theme for Hyacinth
William Trevor - Miss Smith
Edgar Wallace - The Treasure Hunt
Hugh Walpole - The Snow
H.G. Wells - The Cone
Dennis Wheatley - In the Fog
Anthony Wynne - The Cyprian Bees |
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Post by ripper on Aug 25, 2013 12:42:29 GMT
Many thanks, Dem, that's another great collection and definitely on my "wants" list. I don't know how I managed to miss these collections when they were first published. I remember seeing some of Octopus's other publications, particularly their "World's Greatest" series in supermarkets, but not these Danby-edited anthos. Also, I wonder why MD was credited as editor for the "65" anthos but not for Realms of Darkness and Chamber of Horrors.
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Post by dem on Aug 25, 2013 16:03:19 GMT
In the case of Chamber Of Horrors, it could be that the stories by John Blackburn, Frederick Cowles, R. E. Vernade and Robert Haining were all uh, 'borrowed' from Hugh Lamb anthologies, and i'm not sure they requested permission. i seem to remember it wasn't appreciated at the time. Another Octopus, hardly indispensable to fans of horror and supernatural fiction, but the details, in case they are of use to anyone. Kenneth Allen (ed.) - Spy & Mystery Stories (Octopus, 1978) 
Edgar Allan Poe - The Gold Bug
Alastair Scott - George Blake: Double Agent
Agatha Christie - The Veiled Lady
Avis Murton Carter - The Queen's Super-Spy
Charles Dickens - The Signalman
John Bullock - The German Who Succeeded
Noel Lloyd - The Spy Who Never Was
Mary W. Shelley - Frankenstein (extract)
K. Alan Macdonald - Annemarie: The 'Lady Doctor'
Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto - The Thirteenth Man
Michael & Mollie Hardwick - Captain Robertson's Secret
Alan Stuart - The Eye Of The Dawn
Leopold Lewis - A Dreadful Bell
Samuel Epstein & Beryl Williams - The Young Saboteurs Of The Churchill Club
Elizabeth Bennett - Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?
Alistair Scott - History's First Spies
Robert Bloch - Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper
Betty Grant-Southerland - The Krogers Of Ruislip
Joseph Hutton - Eileen, A Quiet English Miss
Kenneth Allen - The Fatal Six Cables
Geoffrey Palmer - Operation Cicero
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (extract)
H. R. Bendorff - The Death Of Edith Cavell
Avis Murton Carter - Gunpowder, Treason And Plot
Evan T. Sanderson - A Thing On The Ground
John Agee - Dark Rendezvous
K. Alan Macdonald - The Hoodoo Ship
Edwin T. Woodhall - The 'American Colonel'
Alan Stuart - A Third Man?
Anonymous - The Alibi
Bernard Newman - Hitler's Spies
Michael & Mollie Hardwick - The Haunting Of U-Boat 13
John Baker White - The Night Of 6 September
K. Alan Macdonald - The Sea's Greatest Mystery
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Spy In The Barrel (extract from Treasure Island)
David S. Allen - The Bermuda Triangle
Noel Lloyd - The Campton Wonder
AcknowledgementsBlurb: A superb collection of 36 riveting stories for boys and girls that includes some of the most daring exploits of international spies and a selection of mysterious and spine-chilling adventure stories that will thrill and absorb every reader.
Both classic and modern writers are represented here – Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Palmer, Noel Lloyd, Oreste Pinto and Agatha Christie among them.
Fact and fantasy come together in this exciting new collection: 'Dark Rendezvous'; `Operation Cicero; "Annemarie – The Lady Doctor' and 'The Young Saboteurs of the Churchill Club' are incredible but true stories of espionage activities undertaken by men, women and children.
`Frankenstein' `The Signalman' and `The Gold Bug' are among those stories that have been created out of pure imagination, by authors skilled in the art of short story writing, with the ability to bring tension, drama and stimulating reading to every page. To complete this excellent anthology there are 40 dramatic line drawings for readers to enjoy. "In London,' he whispered. 'In 1888 ... one of those women the Ripper slew ... was my mother." Geoff Taylor illustration for Robert Bloch's Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper |
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Post by ripper on Aug 26, 2013 9:59:05 GMT
AH, right, that would explain it, Dem :-).
That's a mixed bag of stories/true accounts to put it mildly. I notice that Oreste Pinto is included. I read his book "Spy-Catcher" many years ago. Actually, I think it was his 2 books collected into a single volume that I read. He was a counterintelligence officer who worked for M.I.5 during WW2 and I found the book very absorbing--recommended if you're fond of that kind of thing. He was also portrayed in a late 1950s BBC TV series called "Spycatcher."
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 27, 2013 14:02:08 GMT
There's already a page on the expanded edition of Great Murder Mysteries, which is the one I have. It contains these extra stories, all of them crime going by memory.
Drawn into Error - Elizabeth Ferrars
The Drop of Blood - Mor Jokai
Who Would Kill a Cat? - Antonia Fraser
Butchers - Peter Lovesey
Murder by Proxy - M McD Bodkin QC
Potterton's Particular - Ivor Drummond
The Mystery of Room 666 - Jacques Futrelle
Old Folks at Home - Patricia Highsmith
The Elusive Bullet - John Rhode
The final Score - Palma Harcourt
Why Tarry the Wheels of his Chariot? - Michael Gilbert
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Post by DemonSpawn on Aug 27, 2013 22:49:53 GMT
I would echo that realms of darkness is rather good. My latest find was this: although disappointly the version I have doesn't have that awesome art work That artwork is really awesome. Love it. I know a lot of people really hate that book, but I just finished reading it and tbh thought it was pretty terrific. So there. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 31, 2013 7:52:53 GMT
From a charity book sale: Worst Horwitz cover ever, for a buck:  Year's Best Horror for $3:  Anthology from Seon and Gogo, for $3:  Mike Ashley's Jewels of Wonder from Kimber for $2:  |
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Post by doomovertheworld on Sept 8, 2013 8:20:24 GMT
I would echo that realms of darkness is rather good. My latest find was this: although disappointly the version I have doesn't have that awesome art work That artwork is really awesome. Love it. I know a lot of people really hate that book, but I just finished reading it and tbh thought it was pretty terrific. So there. I agree. Having recently finished it myself as well I would concur that it is really rather good |
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Post by ripper on Sept 10, 2013 14:41:20 GMT
Found a very battered copy of Still Not at Night edited by Christine Campbell-Thomson (Arrow 1962) in a jumble sale and snapped it up for 20p. I've only read stories from CCT's classic series in the Pans, so I was well pleased. A very short introduction by CCT; perhaps she wrote longer ones for the first two volumes she edited for Arrow?
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