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Post by dem bones on Dec 22, 2007 21:02:16 GMT
A real mixed bag. Several reprints including some classic gothic novels and Derleth's collections from the 'forties, Haining's debut as an anthologist and O'Donnell's 'true' ghost stories. As ever, if anyone can flesh out the listing please do. August Derleth (ed) - The Sleeping And The Dead (1963) Ray Bradbury - The October Country (1963) Henry Farrell - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ? (1963) August Derleth (ed) - The Unquiet Grave (1964) Shane Leslie - Ghost Book (1965) A. N. L. Munby - The Alabaster Hand (1965) Cynthia Asquith - What Dreams May Come (1965) Groff Conklin (ed.) - Twisted (Nov. 1965) Dashiell Hammett (ed.) - The Red Brain (1965) Peter Haining (ed) - The Hell Of Mirrors (Dec.1965) Alfred Hitchcock (ed.) - Haunted Houseful (1965) Robert Bloch - Horror 7 (1965) (Reprinted as "Torture Garden", Sept 1967) W. Harrison Ainsworth - The Elixir Of Life: Auriel (April 1966, May 1975) Frederick Marryat - The Phantom Ship (May 1966) William Beckford - Vathek (1966) Charles Maturin - Melmoth The Wanderer (1966) William Godwin - Caleb Williams (1966) David McDaniel - The Vampire Affair: Man From U.N.C.L.E. #6. (1966) Elliott O'Donnell - The Screaming Skull And Other Ghost Stories (Sept. 1966) Peter Haining (ed) - Beyond The Curtain Of The Dark (Oct 1966, Nov 1972) Peter Haining (ed) - The Craft Of Terror (Dec 1966) August Derleth (ed.) - The Night Side (Nov 1966) Marie Belloc Lowdnes - The Lodger (Dec 1966) Basil Copper - Not After Nightfall (June 1967) Kurt Singer (ed) - Ghost Omnibus (Nov 1967) Kurt Singer (ed) - 2nd Ghost Omnibus (Dec 1967) Elliott O'Donnell - The Midnight Hearse (1967) Peter Haining (ed) - Legends For The Dark (Feb 1968) Dashiell Hammett (ed.) - Breakdown (1968) Roland Topor - The Tennant (1968) Sandra Shulman - The Daughters Of Satan (1969) Raymond Giles - Night Of The Warlock (Dec 1969, Oct 1970) Kurt Singer (ed) - Tales Of The Macabre (Dec 1969) I'm not sure about Peter Haining (ed.) - The Future Makers (1968) as the contents seem suspiciously SF while the following 'Alfred Hitchcock' (Peter Haining) anthologies would appear to have more to do with crime, murder and mystery than supernatural shockers. Behind the Locked Door (1967) Meet Death at Night (1967) Guarenteed Rest In Peace (1967) Anyone for Murder? (1967) The Late Unlamented (1967) This Day's Evil (1967) The Graveyard Man (1968) |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 6, 2009 9:01:32 GMT
More to add, including a novelisation by A. V. Sellwood, Peter Haining's collaborator on the essential Devil Worship in Britain! Robert Bateman - Hands of Orlac (1961) A.V. Sellwood - Children of the Damned (1963) Dashiell Hammett (ed.) - Creeps by Night (Feb. 1966) Robert Bloch - Torture Garden (1967) I'll have to do something about lumping these listings together in a section to themselves one of these days ....
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 6, 2009 9:37:09 GMT
Isn't that Four-Square cover for The Night Side, with the severed Medusa's head, just one of the best ever. I still have a copy of that book and wouldn't dream of parting with it. A brilliant anthology too.
David
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Post by dem bones on Mar 6, 2009 9:56:05 GMT
Oh yes, The Night Side scores highly in every department.
That's the beauty of a great cover (and Four Square certainly had their share, be the books horror, SF or fantasy). You see Medusa glaring out at you, and you know you've come to the right place. Of course, sometimes you haven't, but there's still a glorious painting or photo to enjoy, so it's not been a waste.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 6, 2009 10:05:03 GMT
These bring back great memories. Medusa particualrly good., I remember being about eleven and coming across that cover and revelling in it for long after. We seem to be missing the classic Vathek here. Grinning turbaned fellow if I remember rightly
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Post by dem bones on Mar 6, 2009 10:17:35 GMT
That's the chappie. For the most part, i tried to include covers that Alwyn hadn't included in his mini- Four Square Horror Gallery on Trash Fiction, but a couple were just too irresistible. Just hit the link to see Alwyn's nasty nine including Vathek, The Craft Of Terror, The Midnight Hearse and The Phantom Ship (click on covers to enlarge) |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 6, 2009 10:50:02 GMT
While Dem is distracted at the bar I'll just throw up some dodgy sf: 'Swords of Mars particularly is a classic foursquare cover and the contents do feature a mad scientist dissecting the living brains of those unfortunately portrayed on the front.  I won't be offended if you delete this from a thread marked 'horrors' |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 6, 2009 14:35:50 GMT
Hell, no, it can stay Craig. Just so long as it behaves itself. There's some neat cover art to the Four Square Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan's too, i seem to recall, most, if not all, the work of the truly gifted Josh Kirby, the man who provided the artwork for so many of the books already listed on this page.
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