Arrow Anthologies

[jamesdoig]

I like the covers of the old Arrow anthologies. Here are a few:



Arrow Book of Horror Stories, 1965.

Alexander Woollcott, Moonlight Sonata
Arthur Machen, The Novel of the Black Seal
E.F. Benson, Mrs Amworth
F. Marion Crawford, The Upper Berth
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
Guy de Maupessant, Was it a Dream?
Bram Stoker, The Judge's House
Charles Collins and Charles Dickens, The Trial for Murder
J.F. Sullivan, The Man With a Malady
Anon., Sawny Bean and His Family
Bram Stoker, The Squaw
A.J. Alan, The Hair
Fitz-James O'Brien, What Was It?
H.G. Wells, The Cone
F. Marion Crawford, The Screaming Skull



The Second Arrow Book of Horror Stories, 1965

F. Marion Crawford, The Dead Smile
E.F. Benson, Caterpillars
H. Russell Wakefield, Montrous Regiment
Elizabeth Bowen, Telling
Ray Bradbury, The Veld
Graham Greene, A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
Colin Evans, Nowehere Without Her
Robert Bloch, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
L.P. Hartley, The Travelling Grave
Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue



Dennis Wheatley (ed), Quiver of Horror, 1965

Margaret Irwin, The Earlier Service
Mrs Oliphant, The Open Door
Saki, The Music on the Hill
F. Tannyson Jesse, The Canary
Ex-Private X, Smee
Ex-Private X, One Who Saw
William Younger, The Angelus
Theodore Dreisser, The Hand
M.R. James, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
Bram Stoker, The Judge's House
Louis Golding, The Call of the Hand
Walter de la Mare, All Hallows
William Hope Hodgson, The Whistling Room
Charles Birkin, A right to Know
Dennis Wheatley, A Life for a Life



Cynthia Asquith, When Churchyards Yawn, 1963

Elizabeth Bowen, The Apple Tree
Hugh Walpole, A Little Ghost
L.P. Hartley, The Cotillon
Ann Bridge, The Buick Saloon
Algernon Blackwood, A Threefold Cord...
Arthur Machen, Opening the Door
Shane Lesley, As In a Dark Dimly
W.S. Morrison, The Horns of the Bull
William Gerhadi, The Man Who Came Back
Mrs Belloc Lowndes, The Unbolted Door
Oliver Onions, 'John Gladwin Days...'
Philip MacDonald, Our Feathered Friends
Cynthia Asquith, 'Dod Grante that She Lye Stille'



Arrow, 1965. Interesting supernatural novel by Harry Ludlum, who wrote a biography of Bram Stoker. Reprinted by Ash Tree a few years ago.

[dem bones]

May 11, 2009 0:28:49 GMT jamesdoig said:

I like the covers of the old Arrow anthologies.

.... in that case, we might be able to interest you in this one:

Arrow horror & black magic 1960-1980

I'm grateful to you for supplying the contents of the two Arrow Horror collections. If it's OK, I'll be copying them across to our WordPress WordPress blog-site-mess, and give you a credit?

I'm sure Steve was telling us about the Harry Ludham book, but i'd not seen a cover 'til now so thanks very much for posting it!

[jamesdoig]

Ah, that's great. The Christine Campbell Thomson covers are the best. I'll have to pick them up some time - I've only got those crappy 1970s reprints.

Here are a couple more:

[jamesdoig]

I was interested in pulphack's post in the Arrow thread about paperback and hardback publishers. He's right that many of the paperback publishers were brought out by traditional hardcover publishers - Transworld created Corgi in 1951. Around the same time Collins brought out Fontana, Hutchinson brought out Arrow, Hodder brought out Pocket (which later became Coronet). Digit Books was owned by Brown Watson. Granada acquired Panther in 1965 (which had been set up by a couple of ex-servicemen). I think Four Square became New English Library. Sphere was owned by Thomson. Mayflower was an offshoot of Dell in the US. Something like that anyway...

[pulphack]

this just gives me a chance to say hello and welcome james - great stuff about Horowitz publications; i was only aware of their western lines from reading dave whitehead's column in Paperback and Pulp Fiction a decade or so ago.

the differences between those p/b lines from h/b houses and those that originated in p/b are makred - have you ever read Steve Holland's The Mushroom Jungle? much talked about on here, but not lately - a study of the men and words behind the boom in p/b oublishing post wwII that shaped the era we love. well worth tracking down if you haven't!

[jamesdoig]

I haven't read The Mushroom Jungle - I'll do a search and see what it is. The only paperback history I've got is Schreuders' The Book of Paperbacks, which seems to focus on the US.

I'm lucky to live 100 metres from a chap named Graeme Flanagan, who did the Australian Vintage Paperback Guide for Gryphon books back in 1994. Graeme has an incredible collection of paperback pulps in his garage, not just Australian stuff. His focus is crime, not so much horror, and his website, which he has been updating recently is www.graemeflanagan.com Well worth a look for the covers. I think Graeme used to contribute to Gary Lovisi's Paperback Parade. If anyone's interested I interviewed Graeme for a fairly new journal called Studies in Australian Weird Fiction #3, which only seems to available from the publisher, Equilibrium Books.

I'm also a big fan of anthologies and especially vintage paperback anthologies - so I'm a perfect fit for Vault of Evil! I flogged a lot of paperbacks a few years ago to take advantage of some small press discount sales, but I'm slowly building up again. I particularly liked the 1970s Panther titles, eg the Clark Ashton Smith books with the Bruce Pennington covers.

I'm slowly trawling through the site and I'm finding that it's incredibly thorough - can't see many gaps at all.

[dem bones]

James, next time you see Graeme, you might like to tell him there's a bloke in East London swears by his Robert Bloch: A Bio-Bibliography. Picked it up maybe ten years ago along the Charing Cross Road - didn't even know the booklet existed up until then - and still find myself referring back to it whenever Bloch's name comes up on here.

Hugh lamb's anthologies certainly do it for me. The Victorian Nightmares paperback was the first book i ever went out of my way to buy after reading a copy from the local library - imagine getting hooked on the genre through H. B. Marriott-Watson's The Devil On The Marsh! I still think it's his finest collection, though Wave Of Fear doesn't take any prisoners either and they're all "good", whatever that is. How heartening that Wordsworth have reprinted so many books by 'Hugh Lamb authors'!

Yes, the board is a bit on the .... sprawling side. The thing is, every once in a while, once it's more or less been decided to stick with what we've got, someone will open our eyes to a whole new world of fantastic stuff - your Oz pulps are a fine example - and how can we not run with it!

[jamesdoig]

That's him! He occasionally lets me look longingly at his signed Arkham House The Opener of the Way. Another guy he used to correspond with was Fritz Leiber, and he's got a signed Night's Black Agents amongst other things. Amazing stuff.