Lucy Berman - The Creepy-Crawly Book

[thecoffinflies]

Oops these pics are huge. Not sure what to do about that...also, apologies for the reflected camera flash in the image.

Target Books, 1973

I - SPIDERS

The Legend of Arachne, Lucy Berman
The Legend of Robert the Bruce and the Spider, Sir Walter Scott
The Valley of the Spiders, H G Wells
Good Company, Leonard Clark

II - SNAKES

The Legend of Cadmus, Thomas Bullfinch
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rudyard Kipling
Old Rattler and the King Snake, David Starr Jordan
The Cobra, Ogden Nash
Worms and the Wind, Carl Sandburg

III - RATS, BATS, AND MICE

The Legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, Lucy Berman
The Curse of Mouse Tower, Bernhardt J Hurwood
The Mouse, Henry Williamson
The Vampire Bats, William Beebe
Rats, Joan Beadon
Bats, Randall Jarrell
The Mouse's Tail, Lewis Carroll

IV - SCORPIONS AND ANTS

The Scorpion, Richard Henwood
Wilhelmina, Gerald Durrell
The Ants, H H Ewers
The Ant, Ogden Nash
The Termite, Ogden Nash

V - HORRORS OF THE DEEP

The Legends of the Kraken and the Hydra, Lucy Berman
The Squids, Jules Verne
The Octopus, Victor Hugo
The Kraken, Alfred Lord Tennyson

coming up: an equivalent post for her far rarer anthology, Demon Lovers, 1973, and comments on the stories in both books.

Thanks for people's interest, anyway. Lucy Berman's no longer with us, but as her son I'm pleased to ensure her books a little corner of webspace.

[allthingshorror]

Heya Coffin, already put listings up for this one in the Kids antho's section: vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fearfullyfrightening&action=display&thread=3037

Love both Berman books.

[dem]

thanks for posting this, gents. CF, with your permission, i'll repost the details on theVault Wordpress pages with a direct link back to here?

[thecoffinflies]

Ah sorry allthings, I didn't look in enough places before posting...

And sure, demonik, link to it from wherever you want. cheers,

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