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Post by jonathan122 on Apr 9, 2009 21:47:34 GMT
Best Horror Stories 2 - ed. John Keir Cross (Faber and Faber)
Introduction
The Professor's Teddy-Bear - Theodore Sturgeon
The Last Chukka - Alec Waugh
The Boarded Window - Ambrose Bierce
The Flowers of the Forest - Brian W. Aldiss
The Thing on the Doorstep - H. P. Lovecraft
How to Make a Foon - Spike Milligan
Brown God in the Beginning - Angus Stewart
Akin to Love - Christianna Brand
The Glass Eye - John Keir Cross
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas - M. R. James
Evening Primrose - John Collier
The House of Desolation - Alan Griff
Making Sure of a Little One - Derek Ingrey
The Derelict - William Hope Hodgson
Thurnley Abbey - Perceval Landon
From the introduction by John Keir Cross:
A very young friend of mine told me a joke he had heard at school - about a small blind girl who was being tucked into bed one evening in early spring. Her mother said: "Darling, I have a lovely surprise. Tomorrow, you're going to be able to see. When I come in and pull aside your curtains, you're going to see, at last, the golden sunshine streaming in, as I've tried so often to describe it to you!"
In the morning, the child lay waiting for the sound of the curtains; and when it came there was a moment's pause, then: "But, Mummy, I can't see - not anything at all."
The mother turned at the window. "Yah!" she laughed. "Yah! - April Fool."
Rather enjoyed that myself.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 9, 2009 23:34:01 GMT
' fraid i don't have a decent scan to go with this one, jonathan, but i've posted up the contents to the '57 Best Horror Stories. I don't know what it is about JKC's anthologies - it's not as if the stories he uses are particularly difficult to find, but the books hang together really well and his token SF-Fantasy choices are excellent. Come to think of it, his collection, The Other Passenger, might be out of copyright by now? Another job for Wordsworth! |
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Post by jonathan122 on Apr 14, 2009 23:29:08 GMT
When / if I ever work out how to use a scanner I shall try and get my cover scanned in, but I wouldn't hold your breath  My cover is credited to R A Brandt, and, as far as I can tell, depicts somebody falling. Please, don't all rush at once... No date, but it's definitely post-1963, and it was apparently published "almost exactly" 30 years after Alan Griff's "The House of Desolation" first appeared. |
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