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Post by dem bones on Apr 21, 2016 11:18:44 GMT
There's still plenty of life in the Ghost Stories of an Antiquary thread, so have started a fresh one for More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary which, the much anthologised A School Story and Casting The Runes aside, proves a tougher challenge . A School Story Anthony Masters [ed.] Cries Of Terror, (Arrow, 1976) Robert Aickman [ed.] The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967 ) Casting the Runes Alfred Hitchcock [ed.] Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV, (Pan, 1960) Anon - Tales Of The Supernatural, (Panther, 1962, 1964) Peter Haining (ed.) - Movie Monsters (Severn House, 1988). Story retitled 'The Night of the Demon' for the occasion. Martin's Close Peter Underwood [ed.] Thirteen Famous Ghost Stories, (Dent, 1977 ) Peter Haining [ed.] Tales From The Rogues’ Gallery: A Guided Tour (Little Brown, 1994) Dorothy L. Sayers Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1928) Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance Hugh Walpole [ed] The Second Century of Creepy Stories, (Hutchinson, 1937) The Rose GardenJ. A. Cuddon [ed.] The Penguin Book Of Ghost Stories (1984) The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral Peter Haining [ed.] - Ghost Movies II: Famous Supernatural Television Programmes (Severn House, 1996) The Tractate Middoth Bryan Douglas [ed.] Great Stories of Mystery and Imagination (Fontana, 1966)
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Post by dem bones on Apr 22, 2016 7:02:50 GMT
And so to the rather more problematic A Thin Ghost & Others. Had to cheat with this one as Best Ghost Stories also includes Count Magnus, An Episode Of Cathedral History and Casting the Runes. The Residence at WhitminsterBryan Netherwood [ed.] The Uncanny (Blackie, 1974) Anon (Dorothy M. Thomlinson?) [ed.] ] A Century Of Ghost Stories (Hutchinson, 1935). Also includes A Warning To The CuriousPeter C. Smith [ed.] Undesirable Residences: 13 Haunted Houses (William Kimber, 1977) The Diary of Mr. Poynter Anon [ed.] Best Ghost Stories (Hamlyn, 1977) Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg [eds.] 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (Barnes & Noble, 1997) An Episode of Cathedral HistoryPeter Haining [ed.] The Midnight People (Leslie Frewin, 1968) David Stuart Davis [ed.] Children Of The Night (Wordsworth, 2007) The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance Peter Haining [ed.] Christmas Spirits (William Kimber, 1983) Richard Dalby - [ed.] Ghosts For Christmas (Michael O'Mara, 1988) Colin De La Mare [ed.] They Walk Again (Faber, 1931) Two DoctorsStefan Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg [eds.] 100 Tiny Tales Of Terror (Barnes & Noble, 1996) Dont (yet?) have a copy of this, so scan will have to wait. Contents are as follows (thanks to LocusStefan Dziemianowicz - Introduction
J. U. Giesy - Ashes of Circumstance Manly Wade Wellman - At the Bend of the Trail William Fryer Harvey - August Heat Ramsey Campbell - Beside the Seaside David Drake - Best of Luck Ambrose Bierce - The Boarded Window Joe R. Lansdale - Boo, Yourself Kirk Mashburn - The Broken Thread E. F. Benson - The Bus-Conductor Dennis Etchison - The Chill F. Paul Wilson - The Cleaning Machine Richard Middleton - The Coffin Merchant Jerome K. Jerome - The Dancing Partner Frank Belknap Long - The Desert Lich J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Dickon the Devil F. Marion Crawford - The Doll's Ghost Nancy A. Collins - The Dreamclown Fred Chappell - Ember Maurice Level - The Empty House Clark Ashton Smith - The Epiphany of Death Ingulphus (Arthur Gray) - The Everlasting Club William F. Nolan - Fair Trade Lucy Taylor - The Family Underwater Guy de Maupassant - Fear Theodore Sturgeon - Fluffy Poppy Z. Brite - Footprints in the Water Stefan Grabiński - The Frenzied Farmhouse William F. Nolan - Gobble, Gobble! William Browning Spencer - Graven Images Thomas Ligotti - The Greater Festival of Masks Willis Knapp Jones - The Green Scarab Donald E. Keyhoe - The Grim Passenger Nancy Holder - Have You Seen Me? Richard T. Chizmar - Heroes David B. Silva - The Hollow Mary Elizabeth Counselman - The House of Shadows Ralph Adams Cram - In Kropfsberg Keep Howard Wandrei - In the Triangle H. P. Lovecraft - In the Vault Seabury Quinn - Itself Darrell Schweitzer - Jason, Come Home Frank Belknap Long - Johnny on the Spot Brian Stableford - Justice Grace M. Campbell - The Law of the Hills - (1930) - shortstory by William R. Stotler & D. E. LeRoss - Letter from Will Stotler, Dated October 32nd As Received by D. E. LeRoss Melanie Tem - Lightning Rod David Langford - The Lions in the Desert Les Daniels - The Little Green Ones Barry Pain - Miracles Edgar Allan Poe - Morella Nicholas Royle - Moving Out Anthony Boucher - Mr. Lupescu Thomas Wiloch - Mr. Templeton's Toyshop August Derleth - Mrs. Bentley's Daughter Tina L. Jens - Mrs. Edmonds' Pantry Saki - The Music on the Hill E. Nesbit - The Mystery of the Semi-Detached Clark Ashton Smith - The Ninth Skeleton Henry S. Whitehead - No Eye-Witnesses Ramsey Campbell - Old Clothes Donald R. Burleson - One-Night Strand T. E. D. Klein - One Size Eats All W. C. Morrow - An Original Revenge H. P. Lovecraft - The Outsider Howard Wandrei - Over Time's Threshold Robert Peery - The Palace of the Dead Brian Hodge - Past Tense Douglas Clegg - People Who Love Life Carl Jacobi - Phantom Brass Eric Frank Russell - The Ponderer Steve Rasnic Tem - Preparations for the Game Robert Barr - Purification Bernard Capes - A Queer Cicerone David Grinnell (Donald A. Wollheim) - The Rag Thing E. Hoffmann Price - The Rajah's Gift Richard Laymon - Roadside Pickup Fritz Leiber - Schizo Jimmie Karl Edward Wagner - Shrapnel John Shirley - Silent Crickets Hugh B. Cave - The Skeptic Gertrude Atherton - The Striding Place E. Hoffmann Price - The Sultan's Jest Theodore Sturgeon - Talent Leigh Brackett - The Tapestry Gate Kim Newman - The Terminus Fitz-James O'Brien - A Terrible Night Louise Van de Verg - The Three Mary Elizabeth Counselman - The Three Marked Pennies W. W. Jacobs - The Three Sisters Harriet Beecher Stowe - Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story Norman Partridge - Tombstone Moon Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - A Torture by Hope M. R. James - Two Doctors John Bender - The Visitor Joel Lane - Wave Scars Vernon Lee - A Wedding Chest Chet Williamson - What Can a Child Do? Hugh B. Cave - What Say the Frogs Now, Jenny? August Derleth - Wild Grapes Vincent O'Sullivan - Will ----------------------------------------------------------------- The popular An Episode of Cathedral History can also be found in: Richard Dalby [ed.] Vampire Stories (Michael O’Mara, 1992) Stephen Jones [ed.] Mammoth Book Of Vampires (Robinson, 1992) Alan Ryan [ed.] Penguin Book Of Vampire Stories (1988)
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 22, 2016 10:07:56 GMT
I'm pleased to see that ace MRJ fan Hugh Walpole (he was the one who bought the manuscript of "Oh, Whistle" at the auction of MRJ's effects) chose to reprint "Mr Humphreys". I think that's one of the very best of all MRJ's tales (its marked flaws only serve to make it even better!), though I know opinions differ on this. Why has there never been (unless, of course, you or a resident of the Vault know better) a collection of supernatural maze stories? There are some great stories which could be included?
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Post by dem bones on Apr 23, 2016 8:07:35 GMT
I'm pleased to see that ace MRJ fan Hugh Walpole (he was the one who bought the manuscript of "Oh, Whistle" at the auction of MRJ's effects) chose to reprint "Mr Humphreys". I think that's one of the very best of all MRJ's tales (its marked flaws only serve to make it even better!), though I know opinions differ on this. Why has there never been (unless, of course, you or a resident of the Vault know better) a collection of supernatural maze stories? There are some great stories which could be included? I think you may have to take the lead on that one, Ro. Other than Mr. Humphreys ..., only two that spring to mind are Lisa Tuttle's Treading The Maze and Barbara Roden's Tourist Trap (which I only know of by reputation). Hugh Walpole will return to this thread shortly. As I'm sure you're aware, Valancourt recently reissued his 1933 collection, All Souls Night.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 23, 2016 11:03:48 GMT
I'm pleased to see that ace MRJ fan Hugh Walpole (he was the one who bought the manuscript of "Oh, Whistle" at the auction of MRJ's effects) chose to reprint "Mr Humphreys". I think that's one of the very best of all MRJ's tales (its marked flaws only serve to make it even better!), though I know opinions differ on this. Why has there never been (unless, of course, you or a resident of the Vault know better) a collection of supernatural maze stories? There are some great stories which could be included? I think you may have to take the lead on that one, Ro. Other than Mr. Humphreys ..., only two that spring to mind are Lisa Tuttle's Treading The Maze and Barbara Roden's Tourist Trap (which I only know of by reputation). Hugh Walpole will return to this thread shortly. As I'm sure you're aware, Valancourt recently reissued his 1933 collection, All Souls Night. Barbara Roden's rather good story was one of the ones I was thinking of, but I don't know Lisa Tuttle's. Other than these (and David Longhorn's "Mr Humphreys" sequel in the second G&S Book of Shadows), I've come up with a few but I'm sure there must be more - surely enough for a book: There are two called "The Maze", one by Geoffrey Warburton from All Hallows 27 (I'm still trying to find current contact details for him, by the way). I don't recall that one, but Mike Chislett's "The Maze" in the Roger Johnson-edited Formidable Visitants (1999) is a good one. Even better is Clive Ward's long and excellent "The Particular" in G&S 32. "The Particular" starts with a lovely fake quote from A Book of Mazes by (my hero) Lady Wardrop! How brilliant it would be to fake up her entire book, but it'd need a real maze expert to do it.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 23, 2016 12:24:42 GMT
Barbara Roden's rather good story was one of the ones I was thinking of, but I don't know Lisa Tuttle's. Other than these (and David Longhorn's "Mr Humphreys" sequel in the second G&S Book of Shadows), I've come up with a few but I'm sure there must be more - surely enough for a book: There are two called "The Maze", one by Geoffrey Warburton from All Hallows 27 (I'm still trying to find current contact details for him, by the way). I don't recall that one, but Mike Chislett's "The Maze" in the Roger Johnson-edited Formidable Visitants (1999) is a good one. Even better is Clive Ward's long and excellent "The Particular" in G&S 32. "The Particular" starts with a lovely fake quote from A Book of Mazes by (my hero) Lady Wardrop! How brilliant it would be to fake up her entire book, but it'd need a real maze expert to do it. Should come as no big surprise that I'm unfamiliar with any of those stories you mention. Liza Tuttles story is included in The Mammoth Book Of Zombies, though seems to me, the dead party is more ghost than shambling brain-eater. E. F. Bleiler's The Guide To Supernatural Fiction suggests H. F. Heard's Dromenon (from The Great Fog & Other Weird Tales) probably qualifies. Jeremy Dyson, whose The Haunted Book proved extremely popular with our contributors, has a story titled The Maze in Peter Crowther's Destination Unknown, (White Wolf, 1997). From memory, a maze figured prominently in an episode of Midsomer Murders, though the title escapes me and I can't recall if it was one of the series' surprisingly frequent excursions into realms of the supernatural.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 23, 2016 16:07:45 GMT
How could I have forgotten another of my favourite Ghosts & Scholars stories: Rick Kennett's "The Outsider" (G&S 14)? The setting is a very English maze, but the haunting is very Australian! And similarly how could I have forgotten one of my favourite Lovecraft stories, "In the Walls of Eryx"? I suppose that's science fiction rather than supernatural (the maze being on Venus), but it's seriously spooky anyway. By a weird coincidence, about half an hour ago, I got from the library and started reading Neil Gaiman's 2015 short story collection Trigger Warnings. The second piece in the book is another maze tale: "A Lunar Labyrinth" (apparently inspired by a Gene Wolfe story called "A Solar Labyrinth"). It's very atmospheric and strange. This looks like a real treat of a book.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Apr 23, 2016 18:47:23 GMT
Jeremy Dyson, whose The Haunted Book proved extremely popular with our contributors, has a story titled The Maze in Peter Crowther's Destination Unknown, (White Wolf, 1997). 'The Maze' also features in Jeremy's first collection, 'Never Trust a Rabbit'. And by a charming coincidence the maze in the story is the one that used to be situated in Roundhay Park in Leeds, which was the very same maze used in Tony Scull's short schools programme adaptation of 'Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance'.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 24, 2016 10:33:04 GMT
How could I have forgotten another of my favourite Ghosts & Scholars stories: Rick Kennett's "The Outsider" ( G&S 14)? The setting is a very English maze, but the haunting is very Australian! And similarly how could I have forgotten one of my favourite Lovecraft stories, "In the Walls of Eryx"? I suppose that's science fiction rather than supernatural (the maze being on Venus), but it's seriously spooky anyway. By a weird coincidence, about half an hour ago, I got from the library and started reading Neil Gaiman's 2015 short story collection Trigger Warnings. The second piece in the book is another maze tale: "A Lunar Labyrinth" (apparently inspired by a Gene Wolfe story called "A Solar Labyrinth"). It's very atmospheric and strange. This looks like a real treat of a book. Glad you mentioned Ghosts & Schoars 14 as it was inexplicably overlooked during last year's *ahem* Haunted Library retrospective. Compiling this biblio has disabused me of one long held pet delusion, namely that Peter Haining was on a one man crusade to force feed us A School Story in every other anthology. A School StoryPeter Haining [ed.] The Nightmare Reader (Gollancz, 1973) & The Nightmare Reader Vol II, (Pan 1979) Peter Haining [ed.] The Ghost's Companion (Puffin, 1978) Anonymous (Mary Danby?) – Ghost Stories ( Cathay, 1984: Octopus, 1982) Katherine Lines [ed.] The House of the Nightmare & Other Eerie Tales (Penguin, 1970) Will get around to A Warning To The Curious and the Complete Ghost Stories originals shortly.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 24, 2016 16:07:52 GMT
Here goes for A Warning To The Curious. Spoiler. It has proved very uncooperative. The Haunted Dolls' HouseRichard Dalby [ed.] - The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (Robinson 1990) Deborah Shine [ed.] - Haunting Ghost Stories (Octopus, 1980) Mary Danby [ed] 4th Armada Ghost Book (1972) The Uncommon Prayer-Book Syd Bentlif [ed] Horror Anthology (Mayflower-Dell, 1965) A Neighbour's Landmark We will have to play our joker here and drag Wordsworth's monstrous Horror Stories back into the fray, thereby rendering this entire enterprise redundant. Incredibly, it seems that even the most desperate anthologists are immune to the charms of this particular tale, though, as ever, am happy to be proved wrong. A View from a Hill Mary Danby [ed] 7th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories (1972) August Derleth [ed.] The Sleeping and the Dead (Four Square, 1963) Frederick Pickersgill [ed.] Horror-7 (Corgi, 1965) A Warning to the Curious Donald A. Wollheim [ed.] Avon Fantasy Reader #4, (Sept. 1947) Anon [Mary Danby] - Chamber Of Horrors (Octopus, 1984) A Century Of Ghost Stories (Hutchinson, 1935) Also includes The Residence At Whitminster50 Years Of Ghost Stories (Hutchinson, 1935) Also includes The Residence At Whitminster An Evening's Entertainment See A Neighbour's LandmarkThat's your lot for today. Got to see a man about an Edgware Town F.C. versus Arlesley Town Reserves ticket for Saturday's Spartan South Midlands clash.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 26, 2016 19:02:22 GMT
Part V. Tales 'original' to the Collected Ghost Stories Of M. R. James. There Was a Man Dwelt by a ChurchyardJohn Gawsworth [ed] Thrills, Crimes & Mysteries (Associated Newspapers, 1935). Peter Haining [ed] Summoned From The Tomb (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973). Story is not included in the Digit paperback of the same name. Mary Danby [ed] 3rd Armada Ghost Book (1970) RatsAnon (Hugh Walpole?) [ed.] A Century Of Creepy Stories (Hutchinson, 1934) Richard Dalby [ed.] Mammoth Book Of Ghost Stories 2 (Robinson, 1991) Cynthia Asquith [ed.] Shudders (Hutchinson, 1929) A Century of Thrillers: Second Series (Daily Express, 1934) Les Daniels [ed.] Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media (Da Capo [undated]: originally Scribners, 1975) Gahan Wilson's Favorite Tales of Horror (Tempo, 1976) After Dark in the Playing Fields Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg [eds.] 100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (Barnes & Noble, 1994) Wailing Well Richard Dalby [ed.] Dracula's Brood (Crucible, 1987) Otto Penzler [ed.] The Vampire Archives (Quercus, 2009). Also includes Count Magnus and An Episode In Cathedral History. Peter Haining [ed] The Ghost Finders: Tales of Some Famous Phantoms (Gollancz, 1978) Charles Keeping's Book of Classic Ghost Stories (Blackie, 1986) Stories I Have Tried to Write Another anthologist's blind-spot - unless anthologist in question happens to be he or she compiled the trusty, ludicrously generous Horror Stories (Wordsworth, 2004)! Still to come. The Experiment & Co.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 29, 2016 13:48:46 GMT
Finally, the ones that got away ... at least, they did until Richard Dalby, Hugh Lamb, Rosemary Pardoe and friends arrived on the scene. A VignetteRichard Dalby [ed.] The Sorceress in Stained Glass & Other Ghost Stories (Tom Stacey, 1971) Peter Haining [ed.] M. R. James Book Of The Supernatural (Foulsham, 1979). Also includes ....... ..... The ExperimentHugh Lamb [ed.] The Thrill of Horror (W. H. Allen, 1975) Hugh Lamb [ed.] Terror by Gaslight: An Anthology of Rare Tales of Terror (Constable, 1992) The Malice of Inanimate ObjectsRosemary Pardoe [ed.] The Best Of Ghosts & Scholars (Richard H. Fawcett, 1986) Peter Haining [ed.] Tales Of Dungeons & Dragons (Century, 1986) The Fenstanton WitchRichard Dalby [ed] Tales Of Witchcraft, (Michael O'Mara, 1991) And a posthumous collaboration with Reggie OliverThe Game of BearStephen Jones [ed.] The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 (Robinson 2010) *** The following 'lost' and unfinished stories were published as The Fenstanton Witch and Others by Haunted Library in 1999 [ed. Rosemary Pardoe]. To best of my knowledge they are also included - along with the short children's novel, The Five Jars - in A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings of M. R. James [(eds.] Christopher Roden & Barbara Roden, Ash Tree 2001. You can read all bar The Five Jars on the superb Ghosts & Scholars site. The Fenstanton Witch Marcilly-le-Hayer (story draft) John Humphreys (unfinished) A Night in King's College Chapel The Game of Bear (unfinished) Speaker Lenthall's Tomb (incomplete) Merfield House (unfinished) The Malice of Inanimate ObjectsCorrections, additions, missing cover scans (of the non-swiped-from-Am*z*n & Co. variety, please) very welcome.
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 29, 2016 14:59:57 GMT
The Fenstanton Witch Marcilly-le-Hayer (story draft) John Humphreys (unfinished) A Night in King's College Chapel The Game of Bear (unfinished) Speaker Lenthall's Tomb (incomplete) Merfield House (unfinished) The Malice of Inanimate Objects
The best single place to find the definitive versions of all of these, including the almost complete version of "Speaker Lenthall's Tomb" is in the Steve Jones-edited Curious Warnings. MRJ's handwriting is terrible and there are a lot of errors in my earlier transcriptions as reproduced in A Pleasing Terror. The definitive versions of most of them are also on the G&S website, but not of "Speaker Lenthall's Tomb".
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Post by dem bones on Apr 29, 2016 19:44:13 GMT
The best single place to find the definitive versions of all of these, including the almost complete version of "Speaker Lenthall's Tomb" is in the Steve Jones-edited Curious Warnings. Ah yes, I remember now. Paragraphgate!
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 29, 2016 19:59:15 GMT
The best single place to find the definitive versions of all of these, including the almost complete version of "Speaker Lenthall's Tomb" is in the Steve Jones-edited Curious Warnings. Ah yes, I remember now. Paragraphgate! Paragraphgate! I like it. For the record, I didn't actually help with the reparagraphing - I just said I wouldn't be too bothered if he did it. In practice, I thought most of it was okay, but I can't deny that it jarred at times, and I'd agree with anyone who said it was unhelpful. Nevertheless I'm still not that bothered!
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