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Post by dem bones on Nov 25, 2009 7:40:27 GMT
Forthcoming from Cemetery Dance for what seems like a lifetime, we first mentioned this on Vault Mk I way back in September 2006 but it's still not surfaced and, depending where you look on-line, the publication date for volume one is either this coming Monday (November 30th) or December 30th, 2010. Full ordering details, price, details etc, from Cemetery Dance, but the gist of it is that each volume will be available in two "states", the trade Edition in two slipcased volumes ($75), and the you'd have have to be a complete wanker "Deluxe Traycased Lettered Edition, .... limited to just 52 copies will features a different binding, different dust jackets, and will be signed by as many of the living authors as possible ($1000)." Never mind all that, here's the listing again which, i hope you'll agree, makes for fascinating reading in itself. At the time of writing, Mr Pelan was "still waiting for the last three or four permissions, but the list below signifies his final choices and is more than 95% confirmed!"
1901: Barry Pain - The Undying Thing
1902: W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw
1903: H.G.Wells - The Valley of the Spiders
1904: Arthur Machen - The White People
1905: R. Murray Gilchrist - The Lover's Ordeal
1906: Edward Lucas White - House of the Nightmare
1907: Algernon Blackwood - The Willows
1908: Perceval Landon - Thurnley Abbey
1909: Violet Hunt - The Coach
1910: William Hope Hodgson - The Whistling Room
1911: M. R. James - Casting the Runes
1912: E. F. Benson - Caterpillars
1913: Aleister Crowley - The Testament of Magdelan Blair
1914: M. P. Shiel - The Place of Pain
1915: Hanns Heinz Ewers - The Spider
1916: Lord Dunsany - Thirteen at Table
1917: Frederick Stuart Greene - The Black Pool
1918: H. De Vere Stacpoole - The Middle Bedroom
1919: Ulric Daubeny - The Sumach
1920: Maurice Level - In the Light of the Red Lamp
1921: Vincent O'Sullivan - Master of Fallen Years
1922: Walter de la Mare - Seaton's Aunt
1923: George Allen England - The Thing from Outside
1924: C.M. Eddy - The Loved Dead
1925: John Metcalfe - The Smoking Leg
1926: H.P. Lovecraft - The Outsider
1927: Donald Wandrei - The Red Brain
1928: H.R. Wakefield - The Red Lodge
1929: Eleanor Scott - Celui-La
1930: Rosalie Muspratt - Spirit of Stonhenge
1931: Henry S. Whitehead - Cassius
1932: David H. Keller - The Thing in the Cellar
1933: C.L. Moore - Shambleau
1934: L.A. Lewis - The Tower of Moab
1935: Clark Ashton Smith - The Dark Eidolon
1936: Thorp McCluskey - The Crawling Horror
1937: Howard Wandrei - The Eerie Mr Murphy
1938: Robert E. Howard - Pigeons from Hell
1939: Robert Barbour Johnson - Far Below
1940: John Collier - Evening Primrose
1941: C.M. Kornbluth - The Words of Guru
1942: Jane Rice - The Idol of the Flies
1943: Anthony Boucher - They Bite
1944: Ray Bradbury - The Jar
1945: August Derleth - Carousel
1946: Manly Wade Wellman - Shonokin Town
1947: Theodore Sturgeon - Bianca's Hands
1948: Shirley Jackson - The Lottery
1949: Nigel Kneale - The Pond
1950: Richard Matheson - Born of Man & Woman
1951: Russell Kirk - Uncle Isiah
1952: Eric Frank Russell - I Am Nothing
1953: Robert Sheckley - The Altar
1954: Everill Worrell - Call Not Their Names
1955: Robert Aickman - Ringing the Changes
1956: Richard Wilson - Lonely Road
1957: Clifford Simak - Founding Father
1958: Robert Bloch - That Hell-Bound Train
1959: Charles Beaumont - The Howling Man
1960: Frederic Brown - The House
1961: Ray Russell - Sardonicus
1962: Carl Jacobi - The Aquarium
1963: Robert Arthur - The Mirror of Cagliostro
1964: Charles Birkin - A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
1965: Jean Ray - The Shadowy Street
1966: Arthur Porges - The Mirror
1967: Norman Spinrad - Carcinoma Angels
1968: Anna Hunger - Come
1969: Stefan Aletti - The Last Work of Pietro Apono
1970: David A Riley - The Lurkers in the Abyss
1971: Dorothy K. Haynes - The Derelict Track
1972: Gary Brandner - The Price of a Demon
1973: Eddy C. Bertin - Like Two White Spiders
1974: Karl Edward Wagner - Sticks
1975: David Drake - The Barrow Troll
1976: Dennis Etchison - It Only Comes Out at Night
1977: Barry Malzberg - The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady
1978: Michael Bishop - Within the Walls of Tyre
1979: Ramsey Campbell - Mackintosh Willy
1980: Michael Shea - The Autopsy
1981: Stephen King - The Reach
1982: Fritz Leiber - Horrible Imagings
1983: David Schow - One for the Horrors
1984: Bob Leman - The Unhappy Pilgrimage of Clifford M
1985: Michael Reaves - The Night People
1986: Tim Powers - Night Moves
1987: Ian Watson - Evil Water
1988: Joe Lansdale - The Night They Missed the Horror Show
1989: Joel Lane - The Earth Wire
1990: Elizabeth Massie - Stephen
1991: Thomas Ligotti - The Glamour
1992: Poppy Z. Brite - Calcutta Lord of Nerves
1993: Lucy Taylor - The Family Underwater
1994: Jack Ketchum - The Box
1995: Terry Lamsley - The Toddler
1996: Caitlin R. Kiernan - Tears Seven, Times Salt
1997: Stephen Laws - The Crawl
1998: Brian Hodge - As Above, So Below
1999: Glen Hirshberg - Mr. Dark's Carnival
2000: Tim Lebbon - Reconstructing AmyLast time, i think we agreed on a couple of glaring omissions, but many have passed through our revolving doors since then, and perhaps the current band of posters will have their own ideas. How many do you recognise? must admit, i was doing pretty well up until the 'eighties but after that ..... And who is going to offer an alternative listing? !! |
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Post by jamesdoig on Nov 26, 2009 2:54:09 GMT
It looks like a pretty amazing collection! Now he'd better start on a 19th century one  I guess the big ommission is "The Beckoning Fair One". No Burrage or Sarban or Harvey, unless I've missed them. Some might gripe at the UK/US bias. But it looks terrific - nice mix of the well-known and obscure - I don't think I've ever heard of Frederick Stuart Greene or George Allen England. |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 26, 2009 9:46:42 GMT
i miss The Beckoning Fair One from the list, too. at the time, i thought it was no bad thing losing out to Casting The Runes, but .... well, i know which story made by far the bigger impression on me and it wasn't MRJ's. Only just noticed this, but perhaps the most notable omission is Clive Barker. Even up to a few years ago it would have been unthinkable not to include something of his in a book with "Best" and "Horror" in the title. It was almost the law. And who is going to break it to Harlan Ellison ® that nothing of his made the grade! Robert A. W. Lowdnes reprinted the George Allan England story in Magazine Of Horror (#7), a digest which seems to have served Mr. Pelan very well in his research as two originals from the magazine provide the entries for 1968 (Anna Hunger's Come from #22) and 1969 (Steffan B. Aletti's excellent vampire story, The Last Work Of Pietro Of Apona, from #27) before our friend David A. Riley takes the spotlight with the solitary original from Pan Book Of Horror Stories! Frederick Stuart Green edited the anthology The Grim 13 which included his story The Black Pool - you can read it at Amalgamated Brotherhood Of Spooks |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 26, 2009 13:57:37 GMT
Great that our very own David Riley is on the list and well deserved for that classic tale. I would still say casting of the runes deserves to be there - one only need look at the adaptations of the tale to see it made its mark. I would have gone for The Messenger by Bradbury but the Jar is also an absolute paradigm story of unease. Surely that Turning of the Screw or whatever about the incestuous kids and the teacher.
Hours of controversy ahead
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Post by marksamuels on Nov 27, 2009 1:02:01 GMT
Great that our very own David Riley is on the list and well deserved for that classic tale. I would still say casting of the runes deserves to be there - one only need look at the adaptations of the tale to see it made its mark. I would have gone for The Messenger by Bradbury but the Jar is also an absolute paradigm story of unease. Surely that Turning of the Screw or whatever about the incestuous kids and the teacher. Hours of controversy ahead I haven't read this one by David, despite having done my best to track down as many of his tales as I possibly can. (subsequent to "The Satyr's Head" and "After Nightfall" : both being particular favourites of mine). "Lurkers in the Abyss" is the one in the Pan book with the skeletal wedding cake, isn't it (i.e. one of those I don't own) ? Mark S. |
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Post by dem bones on Nov 27, 2009 9:19:24 GMT
It looks like a pretty amazing collection! Now he'd better start on a 19th century one That would be a fun one to work on, though it's surely impossible to settle on a final selection! I never thought i'd write this but Asimov, Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg provide some spadework with the very solid, 25 story selection Best Horror & Supernatural Of The 19th Century (Beaufort, 1983) which takes us from 1824-1900 and, in common with Mr. Pelan, doesn't always opt for the obvious. Ransack some Hugh Lamb, R. C. Bull, Peter Haining, Michel Parry and Richard Dalby collections, and you could probably have the list complete in a morning! Craig, The Turn Of The Screw would be a strong contender for the 19th century top hundred as it was published right at the tail end of the century. Mark, yes, The Lurkers in the Abyss is in the wedding cake one. It says something for The Black Books Of Horror that Charles has published stories by three of the authors who make John Pelan's list. Which reminds me. David, if you get to read this, is there any news on the proposed The Lurkers in the Abyss collection from Midnight House? |
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Post by monker on Nov 27, 2009 13:55:31 GMT
No Burrage or Sarban or Harvey Yeah, I'd have One Who Saw by Burrage in there if I could. I'd hazard a guess and suggest Pelan might have chosen the authors first and worked around that. Many worthy authors are present but not with the stories I would have picked in many cases. I might go into greater detail later. I personally would have risked a few slightly lesser stories creeping in if it meant having the very best, in most cases, from each particular author. In other words, classic stories first and the tweaking afterward. I would have gone for The Messenger by Bradbury but the Jar is also an absolute paradigm story of unease. Surely that Turning of the Screw or whatever about the incestuous kids and the teacher. Hours of controversy ahead I've not heard of The Messenger, you are not thinking of The Emissary are you? That's a great story but a little too close to the The Monkey's Paw in retrospect. My favourite from Bradbury is probably The Scythe. The reason The Turn Of The Screw is absent is because it was an 1890s tale. I would suggest The Beckoning Fair One is a shade too long to have been be considered. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 27, 2009 14:10:33 GMT
That will go down as my least informed and badly set out post to date. Yes I'm thinking of the Emissary and I've got my centuries wrong. Hides under bed...
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Post by monker on Nov 27, 2009 14:34:49 GMT
She'll be apples, I called Clark Ashton Smith's Genius Loci "The Genus Loki" on the old board so I probably have you beat there. |
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Post by stephenbacon on Nov 28, 2009 8:40:01 GMT
I think Harlan Ellison's 'A Whimper of Whipped Dogs' might have been included; it would have clashed with Eddy C Bertin's, however. Tough call.
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 6, 2011 2:20:48 GMT
Hello all!
Let start by saying this is my first post but I have been following this site for many years. The amount of effort put forth by everyone is amazing! This is a true labor of love and I thank you all.
When the contents of this book were announced I decided to enter the titles into my database (a gross overstatement - actually my "database" is a text file consisting of novels and collections that I own. This was started on a commodore 64 when I was in highschool and has been ported over to many computers since then) and see how many of these stories I actually own. The results came in and I still needed 7 or 8 to have them all. Now after purchasing these titles I decided to see how many books (or magazines) you would have to purchase to have the entire set. The smallest amount I came up with was 72 seperate publications. This came up to 54 antholgies, 12 single author collections and 6 magazines. I thought this would be a good place to share these results. So here you go:
Table of Contents:
1901: Barry Pain - The Undying Thing (Gaslit Nightmares ed. Lamb)
1902: W. W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw (The Horror Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg)
1903: H. G.Wells - The Valley of the Spiders (Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural ed. Malzberg, Greenberg & Pronzini)
1904: Arthur Machen - The White People (The Horror Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg)
1905: R. Murray Gilchrist - The Lover's Ordeal (A Night of the Moor and Other Tales of Dread)
1906: Edward Lucas White - House of the Nightmare (Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories ed. Kaye)
1907: Algernon Blackwood - The Willows (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1908: Perceval Landon - Thurnley Abbey (65 Great Spine Chillers ed. Danby)
1909: Violet Hunt - The Coach (Rod Serling’s Devils and Demons ed. Serling)
1910: William Hope Hodgson - The Whistling Room (Great Vampire Stories ed. Anon. {Chancellor Press})
1911: M. R. James - Casting the Runes (The Horror Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg)
1912: E. F. Benson - Caterpillars (65 Great Spine Chillers ed. Danby)
1913: Aleister Crowley - The Testament of Magdelan Blair (Don’t Open This Book! ed. Kaye)
1914: M. P. Shiel - The Place of Pain (Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada ed. Colombo)
1915: Hanns Heinz Ewers - The Spider (Wolf’s Complete Book of Terror ed. Wolf)
1916: Lord Dunsany - Thirteen at Table (The Supernatural Reader ed. Conklin)
1917: Frederick Stuart Greene - The Black Pool (The Grim 13 ed. Greene)
1918: H. De Vere Stacpoole - The Middle Bedroom (Fantastic Novels Magazine March 1948 ed. Gnaedinger)
1919: Ulric Daubeny - The Sumach (Dracula’s Brood ed. Dalby)
1920: Maurice Level - In the Light of the Red Lamp (100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment ed. Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg)
1921: Vincent O'Sullivan - Master of Fallen Years (The Best Short Stories of 1921 and Yearbook of ed. O’Brien)
1922: Walter de la Mare - Seaton's Aunt (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1923: George Allan England - The Thing from Outside (Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic Set in Canada ed. Colombo)
1924: C. M. Eddy - The Loved Dead (The Unspeakable People ed. Haining)
1925: John Metcalfe - The Smoking Leg (The Night Side ed. Derleth)
1926: H. P. Lovecraft - The Outsider (The Unspeakable People ed. Haining)
1927: Donald Wandrei - The Red Brain (Weird Tales #3 ed. Carter)
1928: H. R. Wakefield - The Red Lodge (A Tide of Terror ed. Lamb)
1929: Eleanor Scott - Celui-La (A Wave of Fear ed. Lamb)
1930: Rosalie Muspratt - The Spirit of Stonehenge (The Supernatural Omnibus ed. Summers)
1931: Henry S. Whitehead - Cassius (Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fear and Trembling ed. Hitchcock)
1932: David H. Keller - The Thing in the Cellar (65 Great Spine Chillers ed. Danby)
1933: C. L. Moore - Shambleau (Vampires ed. Ryan)
1934: L. A. Lewis - The Tower of Moab (Return from the Grave ed. Lamb)
1935: Clark Ashton Smith - The Dark Eidolon (Out of Space and Time Vol. I)
1936: Thorp McClusky - The Crawling Horror (The Avon Fantasy Reader ed. Wollheim & Ernsberger)
1937: Howard Wandrei - The Eerie Mr. Murphy (The Night Side ed. Derleth)
1938: Robert E. Howard - Pigeons from Hell (The Horror Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg)
1939: Robert Barbour Johnson - Far Below (Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors ed. Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg)
1940: John Collier - Evening Primrose (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1941: C. M. Kornbluth - The Words of Guru (The Fantasy Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg)
1942: Jane Rice - The Idol of the Flies (The Unspeakable People ed. Haining)
1943: Anthony Boucher - They Bite (Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories ed. Kaye)
1944: Ray Bradbury - The Jar (Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Fear and Trembling ed. Hitchcock)
1945: August Derleth - Carousel (The Freak Show ed. Haining)
1946: Manly Wade Wellman - Shonokin Town (Weird Tales July, 1946 ed. McIlwraith)
1947: Theodore Sturgeon - Bianca's Hands (The Unspeakable People ed. Haining)
1948: Shirley Jackson - The Lottery (Wolf’s Complete Book of Terror ed. Wolf)
1949: Nigel Kneale - The Pond (65 Great Spine Chillers ed. Danby)
1950: Richard Matheson - Born of Man & Woman (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1951: Russell Kirk - Uncle Isaiah (Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales)
1952: Eric Frank Russell - I Am Nothing (There Will Be War ed. Pournelle & Carr)
1953: Robert Sheckley - The Altar (Untouched by Human Hands)
1954: Everil Worrell - Call Not Their Names (Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors ed. Dziemianowicz, Weinberg & Greenberg)
1955: Robert Aickman - Ringing the Changes (Great Vampire Stories ed. Anon. {Chancellor Press})
1956: Richard Wilson - Lonely Road (Those Idiots from Earth)
1957: Clifford Simak - Founding Father (The Worlds of Clifford Simak)
1958: Robert Bloch - That Hell-Bound Train (The Fantasy Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg & Greenberg)
1959: Charles Beaumont - The Howling Man (The Howling Man)
1960: Frederic Brown - The House (Nightmares and Geezenstacks)
1961: Ray Russell – Sardonicus (Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural ed. Malzberg, Greenberg & Pronzini)
1962: Carl Jacobi - The Aquarium (Disclosures in Scarlet)
1963: Robert Arthur - The Mirror of Cagliostro (The Black Magic Omnibus Volume I ed. Haining)
1964: Charles Birkin - A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts (Spawn of Satan)
1965: Jean Ray - The Shadowy Street (Don’t Open This Book! ed. Kaye)
1966: Arthur Porges - The Mirror (Bluebloods ed. Drake)
1967: Norman Spinrad - Carcinoma Angels (Dangerous Visions ed. Ellison)
1968: Anna Hunger - Come (Magazine of Horror July 1968 ed. Lowndes)
1969: Stefan Aletti - The Last Work of Pietro of Apono (Magazine of Horror May 1969 ed. Lowndes)
1970: David A. Riley - The Lurkers in the Abyss (The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. van Thal)
1971: Dorothy K. Haynes - The Derelict Track (The Seventh Ghost Book ed. Timperley)
1972: Gary Brandner - The Price of a Demon (The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series II ed. Davis)
1973: Eddy C. Bertin - Like Two White Spiders (The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series II ed. Davis)
1974: Karl Edward Wagner - Sticks (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1975: David Drake - The Barrow Troll (Whispers ed. Schiff)
1976: Dennis Etchison - It Only Comes Out at Night (Frights ed. McCauley)
1977: Barry Malzberg - The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady (Midnight Specials ed. Pronzini)
1978: Michael Bishop - Within the Walls of Tyre (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1979: Ramsey Campbell - Mackintosh Willy (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1980: Michael Shea - The Autopsy (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1981: Stephen King - The Reach (The Dark Descent ed. Hartwell)
1982: Fritz Leiber - Horrible Imaginings (Death ed. Schiff)
1983: David Schow - One for the Horrors (The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XII ed. Wagner)
1984: Bob Leman - The Unhappy Pilgrimage of Clifford M. (Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories)
1985: Michael Reaves - The Night People (The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XIV ed. Wagner)
1986: Tim Powers - Night Moves (Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine April 1988 ed. King)
1987: Ian Watson - Evil Water (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 1987 ed. Ferman)
1988: Joe Lansdale - The Night They Missed the Horror Show (Silver Scream ed. Schow)
1989: Joel Lane - The Earth Wire (The Year’s Best Horror Stories XVIII ed. Wagner)
1990: Elizabeth Massie - Stephen (Best New Horror 2 ed. Jones & Campbell)
1991: Thomas Ligotti - The Glamour (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifth Annual Collection ed. Datlow & Windling)
1992: Poppy Z. Brite - Calcutta Lord of Nerves (Still Dead ed. Skipp & Spector)
1993: Lucy Taylor - The Family Underwater (100 Tiny Tales of Terror ed. Dziemianowicz & Weinberg)
1994: Jack Ketchum - The Box (Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters ed. Slung)
1995: Terry Lamsley - The Toddler (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 7 ed. Jones)
1996: Caitlin R. Kiernan - Tears Seven, Times Salt (Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium ed. Pelan)
1997: Stephen Laws - The Crawl (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 9 ed. Jones)
1998: Brian Hodge - As Above, So Below (Falling Idols)
1999: Glen Hirshberg - Mr. Dark's Carnival (The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection ed. Datlow & Windling)
2000: Tim Lebbon - Reconstructing Amy (As the Sun Goes Down)
Note: anthologies and magazines have editors listed. Single author collections do not. Also, this is definitely not the only way to find copies of all these stories - these just represent the books and magazines that I own. If someone can get this list to fewer than 72 titles, please post your shortcut.
I hope this can be of assistance to someone who is on the fence about this collection. My advice - if you are missing more than 10 - 15 of these stories, just buy the two volumes.
Take care and I can't wait to add more to the discussions,
Mr. Happy
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Post by dem bones on Sept 6, 2011 9:51:22 GMT
that is one tasty collection of anthologies you have there - no wonder you are so happy! i'm very tempted to attempt honing down the minimal number of books required yet further, but my guess is you've done such a thorough job it would take weeks of sifting only to find i couldn't improve on it. many thanks for sharing your hard work with us and i look forward to catching you elsewhere on the board.
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 6, 2011 10:23:27 GMT
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Post by mrhappy on Sept 6, 2011 10:52:41 GMT
In regard to the selections for this set, John Pelan mentioned that he had selected three stories for this collection that he was unable to obtain permission to use. This was posted years ago on the ghost-stories use.net board. One of these was L. P. Hartley's "Podolo" (1948). Another was J.G. Ballard's "The Dead Astronaut" (1968). Does anyone have any inside information on what the third story was? Also, I seem to recall David Hartwell wanting to include "The Dead Astronaut" in The Dark Descent and running into similar difficulty.
Mr. Happy
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Post by David A. Riley on Nov 8, 2011 22:23:25 GMT
The following notice has just been emailed by Cemetary Dance:
The Century's Best Horror Fiction:
Two Huge Volumes!
More Than 1,700 Pages and 700,000 Words!
Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Charles Beaumont, Jack Ketchum, Gary Brandner, Dennis Etchison, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, David Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Poppy Z. Brite, Lucy Taylor, Stephen Laws, Brian Hodge, Glen Hirshberg, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, W.W. Jacobs, H.G. Wells, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon, and nearly six dozen others!
Hi Folks!
Today we're pleased to announce that The Century's Best Horror Fiction edited by John Pelan has been sent to the printer!
Cemetery Dance Publications commissioned this spectacular two-volume anthology project under the editorship of noted author and historian of the horror genre, John Pelan.
Century's Best John selected one story published during each year of the 20th Century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year — all 100 stories were then collected in this amazing two volume set to be published as The Century's Best Horror Fiction.
The ground rules were simple: Only one selection per author. Only one selection per year.
Two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, more than 700,000 words of fiction — history in the making!
Booklist had this to say about about the spectacular set:
"...more powerful, more defining of what has gone on between the years 1901 and 2000 in horror fiction... horror readers will have to admit that this treasure trove will bring the realization of a dream to them as well, for there is sufficient material within the multitudinous but highly entertaining and dramatic pages of this grand publishing project to occupy many hours, weeks, even months of their time... The term "old-fashioned" flies out the window when even new readers to horror fiction taste the perfection achieved by these masters... Reading this entire second volume will acquaint even those new to horror fiction with the authors who have shaped the genre during the past 50 years."
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