Creeps: A-Z by Author

[dem bones]

Creeps A-Z by Author (much revamped version of the one that first appeared on the doomed Gruesome Cargoes board).

I make it 162 stories over 12 volumes

Ronald Aggett - The Curse Nightmares
E.K. Allan - The Round Graveyard Monsters
E.K. Allan - Death In Hyde Park Panics
Godfrey Archard - A Bed For The Night Thrills
A.D. Avison - The Horror In The Pond Tales Of Fear
Arthur Stafford Aylmer - The Thing From The Pit Tales Of Fear

P. Beaufoy Barry - The Man In The Mirror Quakes
George Benwood - Dark Seance Horrors
George Benwood - The Interrupted Honeymoon Monsters
Esme H. Bidlake - An Appointment With Death Tales Of Death
Oswell Blakeston - Adventure Without Asking Tales Of Fear
Oswell Blakeston - The Hut Tales Of Death
Oswell Blakeston - The Secret Of The Graves Tales Of Dread
R. F. Broad - Doctor Fawcett's Experiment Horrors
Francis Bruguiere - The Tiger Tales Of Dread

Patrick Carleton - Doctor Horder's Room Thrills
W.A.C. Chadwick - Many Cats And One Tale Tales Of Fear
V.A. Chappell - The End of the Holiday Nightmares
Catherine Clark - The Divine Spark Thrills
Patrick Clark - Bitten By A Spider Tales Of Fear
A. H. Claxton - They Come For Their Own Thrills
Mirabel Cobbold - The Incredible Quakes
Sonya Converse - "Is It True?" Nightmares
Frederick Cowles - The Headless Leper Nightmares
Richard Anthony Parker Crawshay - Ashes And Ashes Thrills
Malcolm Critchley - The Return Tales Of Death
Charles Cullum - Queer Quakes

Sydney Darcy - Swift Death Tales Of Death
Andre De Lorde - Waxworks Terrors
Sidney Denham -The Silver Lady Tales Of Dread
N. Dennett - Unburied Bane Horrors
N. Dennett - The Menhir Panics
Lord Dunsany - The Two Bottles Of Relish Powers Of Darkness

Chrystabel Earle - The Snake Tales Of Fear
Anne Edgar - The Green Taxi Tales Of Dread
Malcolm Ellison - The Devil-Plant Tales Of Death
Paul Erroll - The Woolen Helmet Nightmares
Mrs. Everett - The Death Mask Shivers, Omnibus

Cicely Fox-Smith - The Mutineers Powers Of Darkness

Vera A. Gadd - The Road Tales Of Fear
Vera A. Gadd - Hillmount Tales Of Fear
Hester Holland Gaskell - High Tide Nightmares
H. Glyn-Ward - The Spirit Of Higgins Quakes
Hester Gorst - The Doll's House Horrors
Hester Gorst - Littlesmith Quakes
Allan Govan - The Ever-Turning Dynamos Horrors
Allan Govan - The Blazing Crystals Panics
Frederick Graves - The Psyche Panics
Ursula Gwynne - The Muffler Terrors

Ada Helen - The Figure At The Window Tales Of Fear
E. F. Henry - I Am Smith Thrills
John Ashcroft Hopson - The House With No Road Thrills

Kenneth Ingram - The Confession Monsters
Kenneth Ingram - The "Locum" Monsters
Kenneth Ingram - Reprieve Panics
Kenneth Ingram - The Third Time Powers Of Darkness
Kenneth Ingram - Passing Of The Terror Thrills
Kenneth Ingram - The False Trail Tales Of Dread

G.W. Jaggard - Aceldama Panics
Pamela James - Without A Hitch Horrors
Pamela James - Blue-Black Hair Terrors
Hill Johnson - A Very Potent Poison Panics
Michael Joseph - The Yellow Cat Monsters

Neville Kilvington - Meshes Of Doom Horrors
Clifford Knight - Kismet Tales Of Death
E. S. Knights - Dr. Browning's Bus Horrors

H. Boswell Lancaster - Down-Draught To Hell Tales Of Death
Henry L. Lawrence - A Journey By Train Tales Of Fear
Marjory Lawrence - The Terror Of Stranger Island Terrors
Timothy Leaf - Harvest Monsters
Charles Lloyd (Birkin) - The Last Night Creeps, Omnibus
Charles Lloyd - The Harlem Horror Shudders, Omnibus
Charles Lloyd - An Eye for an Eye Shivers, Omnibus
Charles Lloyd - Special Diet Horrors
Charles Lloyd - A Poem And A Bunch of Roses Horrors
Charles Lloyd - "The Happy Dancers" Nightmares
Charles Lloyd - Old Mrs. Strathers Quakes
Charles Lloyd - The Actor's Story Quakes
Charles Lloyd - The Terror On Tobit Terrors
Charles Lloyd - The Cockroach Monsters
Charles Lloyd - Shelter Panics
Charles Lloyd - Obsession Powers Of Darkness
Charles Lloyd - Henri Larne Thrills
Charles Lloyd - Angela Tales Of Dread
David Lord - The Dead Watch Tales Of Dread

S.G. MacDonnell - The Graverhouse Affair Tales Of Death
Harold Markham - Dispossessed Tales Of Dread
Vivian Meik - The Two Old Women Monsters
B. Lumsden Milne - The Haunted Bungalow Nightmares
R. P. Morrison - Lost With All Hands Tales Of Death
E. R. Morrough - The Temple Servant Powers Of Darkness
Philip Murray - The Charnel House Creeps, Omnibus
Philip Murray - The Trunk Shudders, Omnibus
Philip Murray - The Crimson Blind Shudders, Omnibus
Philip Murray - The Patch Shudders, Omnibus
Philip Murray - The Poplar Tree Shivers, Omnibus
Philip Murray - Hangman's Cottage Nightmares

Douglas Newton - The People Of Darkness Quakes

Elliott O'Donnell - A Wager And A Ghost Creeps, Omnibus
Elliott O'Donnell - The Ghost Table Creeps, Omnibus
Elliott O'Donnell - Accusing Shadows Shudders, Omnibus
Elliott O'Donnell - The Haunted Spinney Shudders, Omnibus
Elliott O'Donnell - The Ghost in the Ring Shivers, Omnibus
Elliott O'Donnell - The Tank of Death Shivers, Omnibus
Elliott O'Donnell - The Mystery of the Locked Room Horrors
Elliott O'Donnell - The Cupboard Of Dread Quakes
Elliott O'Donnell - The Mystery Of Beechcroft Farm Terrors
Elliott O'Donnell - The Haunted Telephone Monsters
Elliott O'Donnell - In the Interests of Science Panics
Edith Olivier - Dead Men's Bones Quakes
Edith Olivier - The Caretaker's Story Monsters
Edith Olivier - The Night Nurse's Story Panics

W.J. Pollock - The Cottage Tales Of Death
Guy Preston - Thirty Terrors
Guy Preston - A Lover Came to Sunnamees Monsters

John Ratho - Lover's Meeting Horrors
John Ratho - The Escape Nightmares
John Ratho - Arabella Goes North Terrors
John Ratho - Fog Panics
Ellis Reed - The Queer People Thrills
Tod Robbins - Spurs Creeps, Omnibus
Tod Robbins - Cockrow Inn Creeps, Omnibus
Tod Robbins - Silent White & Beautiful Creeps, Omnibus
Tod Robbins - Toys Shudders, Omnibus
Tod Robbins - Wild Wullie the Waster Shivers, Omnibus
Tod Robbins - Who Wants a Green Bottle? Shivers, Omnibus
Tod Robbins - The Whimpus Nightmares/i]
Tod Robbins - The Confession Thrills

Tilly Scard - Lone Cottage Tales Of Fear
Maureen E. Shaw - A Nice Cup Of Tea Powers Of Darkness
Francis Sibson - The "Westerdale's" Terrors
Francis H. Sibson - Bathysphere Number 7 Tales Of Dread
A.E.D. Smith - The Coat Powers Of Darkness
Phyllis Stone - B72 Quakes
Phyllis Stone - Spider's Web Terrors
Phyllis Stone - The Man With The Flayed Face Terrors
Phyllis Stone - Blood for a Tiger Monsters

William F. Temple - The Kosso Thrills
Russell Thorndyke - November The Thirteenth Powers Of Darkness
Aldwyn Tibbett - "Binkie" Nightmares
Ismay Trimble - The Terror By Night Quakes
J. H. Turner - The Guillotine Powers Of Darkness

H. R. Wakefield - The Red Lodge Creeps, Omnibus
H. R. Wakefield - "He Cometh And He Passeth By" Creeps, Omnibus
H. R. Wakefield - Or Persons Unknown Shudders, Omnibus
H. R. Wakefield - Professor Pownall's Oversight Shudders, Omnibus
H. R. Wakefield - The Third Coach Shudders, Omnibus
H. R. Wakefield - That Dieth Not Shudders, Omnibus
H. R. Wakefield - The 17th Hole at Duncaster Shivers, Omnibus
H. R. Wakefield - "And He Shall Sing..." Shivers, Omnibus
H. Russell Wakefield - A Fishing Story Thrills
H. Russell Wakefield - Death Of A Poacher Thrills
J. Russell Warren - "?" Panics
L.A. Westney - The Miniature In Black Powers Of Darkness
Hope Wilson - Lion Of Bengal Tales Of Death
A.J. Woodgate - Death Is Avenged Quakes
Geoffrey Wyndham-Lewis - The Silent Inn Tales Of Fear

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Herbert Van Thal's 3rd Pan Book Of Horror (1962) reprints:

Charles Birkin's The Last Night from Creeps; Neville Kilvington's Meshes of Doom, Charles Lloyd (Birkin)s, Special Diet and A Poem and a Bunch of Roses, N. Dennett's Unburied Bane, Elliott O’Donnell's The Mystery of the Locked Room, Raymond Ferrers Broad's Dr Fawcett’s Experiment and John Ratho's Lovers’ Meeting from Horrors; Michael Joseph's The Yellow Cat and Edith Olivier's The Caretaker’s Story from Monsters; Lord Dunsany's much-anthologised The Two Bottles of Relish from Powers Of Darkness.

Van Thal also included Vivian Meik'sThe Two Old Women and Elliott O’Donnell's The Haunted Telephone, both from Monsters in 4th Pan Book Of Horror. (1963)

Richard Dalby's The Sorceress In Stained Glass (Tom Stacey, 1971) includes E.K. Allan's The Round Graveyard and George Benwood's The Interrupted Honeymoon from Monsters; N. Dennett's The Menhir from Panics; J. A. Hopson's The House With No Road from Thrills: A.D. Avison's The Horror in the Pond from Tales Of Fear, and H. R. Wakefield's "And He Shall Sing" from Shivers.

Charles Birkin's Tandem Book Of Ghost Stories (1965) revives Edith Oliver's Dead Men's Bones from Quakes and H. R. Wakefield's The Third Coach from Shivers. His companion volume of the same year, Tandem Book Of Horror Stories, exhumes Guy Preston's Thirty from Terrors

Richard Dalby's The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (1987) reprints Hester Gorst's The Doll’s House (Horrors) and Edith Olivier's The Night Nurse’s Story from Panics. Dalby's Ghosts & Scolars (Crucible, 1987), co-edited with Rosemary Pardoe, reruns Patrick Carleton's Dr Horder's Room from Thrills.

Hugh Lamb dipped into the series for Charles Lloyd Birkin's The Happy Dancers (The Thrill Of Horror, W. H. Allen, 1978). Lamb also revived The Trunk and The Charnel House, both by the mysterious 'Philip Murray', for Star Book Of Horror #1 (1975) and The Man-Wolf And Other Horrors (W.H. Allen, 1978) respectively.

[allthingshorror]

Your greatest post yet Dem - and so many stories yet to read!

Very good work, well done.

[kuranes]

I'd like to know more about the author N. Dennet ( or is it "N. Dennett" ? ) after reading the short story "Unburied Bane". Remarkably cheesey. To the point that its like an archetype for this sort of thing. I liked it for its sheer pulpiness. Wonder if its just another pseudonym for Birkin ?

[dem bones]

hi kuranes, thanks for joining - hope you enjoy your time here.
not sure that it is Birkin's work - the only other pseudonym he admitted to using was Charles Lloyd - but friend Steve put forward a very interesting candidate on the 3rd Pan Book Of Horror Stories thread.

[Michael Connolly]

"Ashes and Ashes" by Richard Anthony Parker Crawshay in Thrills is cited on the James List as influenced by M.R. James. It seems to have never been reprinted. Can anyone tell me what it is about? Is it any good?

[Michael Connolly]

"Ashes and Ashes" by Richard Anthony Parker Crawshay in Thrills is cited on the James List as influenced by M.R. James. It seems to have never been reprinted. Can anyone tell me what it is about? Is it any good?

Further to the above, "The Triptych" by E. H. W. Meyerstein in Thrills, Crimes & Mysteries is also on the James List.  It doesn't seem to have been reprinted either.  Is it any good?  I detect a theme here. 

[dem bones]

Sept 15, 2014 11:18:55 GMT Michael Connolly said:

"Ashes and Ashes" by Richard Anthony Parker Crawshay in Thrills is cited on the James List as influenced by M.R. James. It seems to have never been reprinted. Can anyone tell me what it is about? Is it any good?

Further to the above, "The Triptych" by E. H. W. Meyerstein in Thrills, Crimes & Mysteries is also on the James List.  It doesn't seem to have been reprinted either.  Is it any good?  I detect a theme here. 

I'm missing a copy of Thrills so can't help with Ashes To Ashes, but E. H. W. Meyerstein's The Triptych is worthy of it's place.

"A carved 17th century Flemish triptych conveys horrible psychic experiences. It shows three unfortunate episodes from the New testament: Peter's attack on Malchus, Ananias's lie, and Caiaphas's cruelty." - E. F. Bleiler; The Guide To Supernatural Fiction, (Kent State Uni Press, 1983)

It is advised that said triptych be kept shut by all save those who are innocent of theft. Unfortunately, Mr. Hurfield, who pilfered a 14th century spoon from his friend and fellow collector Mr. Crawshay, allowing a supposedly light-fingered maid to take the blame, does not fall into that category. Consequently, he is pursued across London by a one-eared man and a fearsome Pontiff (who may or may not be Pope Joan) until he gifts the triptych to a museum and anonymously returns the stolen cutlery.

"Is it any good?" You'll need a lit. critic to answer that one.

[Michael Connolly]

Thanks for the information, Dem.

Did you notice that one of the characters in Meyerstein's The Triptych is called Mr Crawshay, the writer of Ashes and Ashes?

[dem bones]

Sept 16, 2014 13:39:11 GMT Michael Connolly said:

Thanks for the information, Dem.

Did you notice that one of the characters in Meyerstein's The Triptych is called Mr Crawshay, the writer of Ashes and Ashes?

Yeah, that's a strange one! Here's what E. F. Bleiler has to write about Ashes And Ashes. " When brutal, domineering Muriel takes possession of Wayland's Grief, a house that she inherited, the gardens are planted with apotropaic herbs. She causes them to be removed, thus permitting the entry of the undead Morthoes."

[Michael Connolly]

There's some useful information on the Creeps and Not at Night series on www.ruthvensattic.com/home.php

Just follow the links to see all of the covers.

[dem bones]

Aug 11, 2018 12:06:21 GMT Michael Connolly said:

There's some useful information on the Creeps and Not at Night series on www.ruthvensattic.com/home.php

Just follow the links to see all of the covers.

Thanks, Michael. The Creeps cover gallery is especially attractive. Christ, the prices they fetch nowadays ....

[humgoo]

Wonderful list! Thank you very much! I'll use it to collect the stories in installments (as many as I can, in any case)! Couldn't help registering if only just to say thanks for this and all the other invaluable posts!

Jan 10, 2010 21:16:50 GMT dem bones said:

Dalby's Ghosts & Scolars (Crucible, 1987), co-edited with Rosemary Pardoe, reruns R. F. Broad's Doctor Fawcett's Experiment from Thrills.

 There seems to be a typo: "R. F. Broad's Doctor Fawcett's Experiment" should read "Patrick Carleton's Dr Horder's Room". Cheers!

[dem bones]

Jun 2, 2019 10:34:49 GMT humgoo said:

Wonderful list! Thank you very much! I'll use it to collect the stories in installments (as many as I can, in any case)! Couldn't help registering if only just to say thanks for this and all the other invaluable posts!

Jan 10, 2010 21:16:50 GMT dem bones said:

Dalby's Ghosts & Scolars (Crucible, 1987), co-edited with Rosemary Pardoe, reruns R. F. Broad's Doctor Fawcett's Experiment from Thrills.

 There seems to be a typo: "R. F. Broad's Doctor Fawcett's Experiment" should read "Patrick Carleton's Dr Horder's Room". Cheers!

Hi humgoo. Thanks for registering and welcome to vault. Good luck with tracking down all those Creeps.

Thanks also for the correction. Have amended my mistake in the original post!

In case you aren't aware, you can download Tod Robbins' The Whimpus, Wild Wullie, The Waster, Who Wants a Green Bottle and The Toys of Fate via SFF Audio.

[humgoo]

Thanks Dem for the welcome and the link! I don't have the money to buy the actual Creeps, but it's great fun to try to collect the stories from anthologies and the individual authors' collections (if any).

The pseudonym thing is also part of the fun, I guess. (Was "Philip Murray" really Philip Allan himself?) While we may never know who "N. Dennett" was, "Patrick Carleton" was, according to the following Wormwoodiana article by Mark Valentine who cites Richard Dalby, the pen-name of Patrick Railton (1907-42), who was "a frequently heavy boozer and often wildly funny". One of his novels is described by Valentine as "Machenesque". So here's an author who's written both Jamesian and Machenesque stuff!

wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2014/04/patrick-carleton-thirties-novelist.html

[helrunar]

Patrick Railton (aka various) sounds fascinating. Thanks, Humgoo, and welcome to these august halls!

cheers, H.