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Post by justin on Sept 1, 2009 20:17:46 GMT
Just been chatting with Johnny All Things Horror about children's anthologies- it started off with a revelation from the main man regarding how his detective work on Pan had revealed more hidden identities and we got on to Fontana and Mary Danby and the Armada Ghost Stories.
The Million Dollar Question- what was the first horror anthology for kids? Did it start in 1966 with the Armadas? Johnny has earlier teen anthologies from the US, but we were talking about the UK?
I really think this is another unexplored aspect of horror fiction.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 1, 2009 22:02:36 GMT
I tried searching some publishing dates in abebooks and nothing came up. One problem is the Victorian concept of a morality tale must have been horrible for kids. Many children in Victorian stories ended up beheaded drowned or burnt to a crisp.
Then of course original fairy stories were not short of heated metal boots for witches and so. On a personal level I was terrified by a book which I am still trying to trace where the woodcutter's wife was eaten by wolves. I think the modern horror story is simply an extension of tales going back to mythic times.
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Post by allthingshorror on Sept 2, 2009 6:30:27 GMT
I suppose Grimms Tales could be called the first children's horror anthology in a sense - but it's wondering if there were any anthos in the 40's and 50's (probably not the 40's as there was a war on if that wasn't bad enough!) - and what they were! So could we call the Armada's the first series of kiddies horror anthology's?
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 2, 2009 8:33:01 GMT
Arrow Book of Ghost Stories
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