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Post by allthingshorror on Sept 11, 2009 20:13:46 GMT
Hutchinson (1935) J. Sheridan Le Fanu The Familiar Green Tea Cecil Binney The Saint And The Vicar Sir Walter Scott The Tapestried Chamber Anthony Gittins Gibbet Lane Mrs Gaskell The Old Nurse's Story M.R. James The Residence At Whitminster A Warning To The Curious Sir Edward Bulwer- Lytton The Haunted And The Haunters Walter De La Mare The Green Room Miss Braddon Eveline's Visitant Edith Wharton Afterward Ambrose Bierce The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot F. Marion Crawford Man Overboard! Shane Leslie In A Glass Dimly The Lord-In-Waiting Bram Stoker Dracula's Guest E.F. Benson Expiation Pirates Algernon Blackwood The Woman's Ghost Story Percival Landon Thurnley Abbey Oliver Onions The Rosewood Door Vernon Lee The Virgin Of The Seven Daggers Mrs Oliphant The Library Window Ann Bridge The Song In The House Violet Hunt The Operation Ex-Private X The Sweeper The Running Tide W.L. George Perez (listing lifted from old site as I couldn't be bothered to type them out...)
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 13, 2009 0:48:14 GMT
 Anyone else got this? It's pretty interesting, but the section on film far outweighs the section on literature. Of particular Vault interest is Kirby McCauley's list of best horror anthologies: 1. Dorothy Sayers, Omnibus of Crime2. August Derleth, Sleep No More3. Colin de la Mare, They Walk Again4. Ramsey Campbell, New Terrors5. Wise & Fraser, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural6. Robert Aickman, Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories7. Hugh Lamb, Terror by Gaslight8. Donald Wollheim, Terror in the Modern Vein9. Boris Karloff, And the darkness Falls10. David Hartwell, The Dark DescentAs you would expect from McCauley, a really good list. Modesty must have prevailed because he left out his own Dark Forces, which must be the best modern anthology. I'd also like to see Dennis Wheatley's A Century of Horror, and maybe R.C. Bull's Perturbed Spirits (1954), which always struck me as well before its time in using stories by really obscure authors. To include them I would have left out de la Mare and Wollheim - and is Sleep No More really the best August Derleth anthology?. |
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Post by frostycat on Apr 24, 2017 22:20:32 GMT
I've got this book! It has the best collection of spooky stories ever - real old fashioned stuff. It's falling apart now because I've read it so often. You can't beat a good old Victorian yarn  |
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