Michel Parry - Index to Mayflower Book Of Black Magic Stories Volumes 1-6
Charles Beaumont - The New People
[Black Magic #1]E. F. Benson - Sanctuary
[Black Magic #2]Alfred Bester - Hell Is Forever
[Black Magic #5]Helena Blavatsky - The Cave Of Echoes
[Black Magic #3]Madame Blavatsky - The Ensouled Violin
[Black Magic #1]Robert Bloch - The Black Kiss
[Black Magic #3]Robert Bloch - The Mannikin
[Black Magic #6]James Blish - There Shall Be No Darkness
[Black Magic #4]Hector Bolitho - Taureke's Eyes
[Black Magic #6]Anthony Boucher - Nellthu
[Black Magic #5]Anthony Boucher - Review Copy
[Black Magic #3]Anthony Boucher - They Bite
[Black Magic #1]Marjorie Bowen - The Necromancers
[Black Magic #2]Frederic Brown - Nasty
[Black Magic #1]Frederic Brown - Naturally
[Black Magic #3]Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Kosem Kesamim The Magician
[Black Magic #2]Roland Caine - The Eye Of The Beholder
[Black Magic #2]Roland Caine - Red Christmas
[Black Magic #5]Daphne Castell - The Fishers By The Fountain
[Black Magic #4]Ramsey Campbell - Dolls
[Black Magic #4]Ramsey Campbell - Lilith's
[Black Magic #5]Ramsey Campbell - Potential
[Black Magic #1]Ramsey Campbell - The Seductress
[Black Magic #6]John Collier - Thus I Refute Beelzy
[Black Magic #6]Frederick Cowles - The House On The Marsh
[Black Magic #5]Frederick Cowles - The Witch Finder
[Black Magic #2]Ralph Adams Cram - No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince
[Black Magic #3]F. Marion Crawford - The Screaming Skull
[Black Magic #4]Aleister Crowley - At The Fork In The Roads
[Black Magic #4]Aleister Crowley - The Violinist
[Black Magic #2]Aleister Crowley - The Vixen
[Black Magic #1]Warden Allen Curtis - The Seal Of Solomen The Great
[Black Magic #2]M. P. Dare - Borgia Pomade
[Black Magic #3]Philip K. Dick - Upon The Dull Earth
[Black Magic #2]David Drake - Blood Debt
[Black Magic #4]Hans Heinz Ewers - The Spider
[Black Magic #2]Sidney Horler - Black Magic
[Black Magic #3]Robert E. Howard - Dig Me No Grave
[Black Magic #2]Robert E. Howard - The Thing On The Roof
[Black Magic #6]C. M. Kornbluth - The Words Of Guru
[Black Magic #4]Henry Kuttner - The Salem Horror
[Black Magic #6]Henry Kuttner - Threshold
[Black Magic #3]H. P. Lovecraft - Dreams In The Witch-House
[Black Magic #3]Richard Matheson - The Likeness Of Julie
[Black Magic #2]Richard Matheson - Witch War
[Black Magic #1]Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore) - Compliments Of The Author
[Black Magic #6]Michel Parry - Introduction
[#1]James Platt - The Devil's Debt
[Black Magic #1]Arthur Porges - The Other Side
[Black Magic #6]Joseph F. Pumilia - Instrument Of Darkness
[Black Magic #3]Seabury Quinn - The Children Of Ubasti
[Black Magic #2]Seabury Quinn - The Hand Of Glory
[Black Magic #1]Seabury Quinn - The Incense Of Abomination
[Black Magic #3]Sax Rohmer - In The Valley Of The Sorceress
[Black Magic #1]Ray Russell - The Cage
[Black Magic #4]Robert Sheckley - The Altar
[Black Magic #3]Henry Slesar - The Wish-Giver
[Black Magic #5]Clark Ashton Smith - The Return Of The Sorcerer
[Black Magic #2]Feodor Sologub - The Invoker Of The Beast
[Black Magic #1]Lewis Spence - The Horn Of Vapula
[Black Magic #6]Steven Utley - Someone Is Watching
[Black Magic #6]H. R. Wakefield - "He Cometh And He Passeth By"
[Black Magic #1]Manly Wade Wellman - Vigil
[Black Magic #4]Evelyn Waugh - Out Of Depth
[Black Magic #5]Dennis Wheatley - The Snake
[Black Magic #1]Patricia Williams - The Night Of The Beast
[Black Magic #5]Don't be rotten. I've not compiled one of these things in oh, ages at least. Besides, it could be a lot worse as am attempting to do a job that encompasses all Michel's anthologies - the adult ones, at least - so this is a taster. Why bother with this type of thing? Search me. But once it's out of my system I find it helps me appreciate the books as a body of work, and the
Mayflower Books Of Black Magic Stories is such a weird and wonderful mix of the old and new, the full-on pulp and the literary, the quaint and the deliberately confrontational, that, viewed as a whole, what we have before us is a potted, very idiosyncratic take on the history of horror fiction from the late nineteenth century to the present day as seen through mid-seventies eyes.
I'm going to Sainsburys now.