Anon - Tales From Beyond The Grave

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Anon [Mary Danby] [Emma Blackley ?]* (ed.) - Tales From Beyond The Grave (Octopus, 1982)

Mick Brownfield

Robert Graves – The Shout
Ambrose Bierce – The Man And The Snake
Hume Nisbet – The Haunted Station
E. F. Benson – Mrs Amworth
James Thurber – The Night The Ghost Got In
Guy De Maupassant – The Horla
Oliver Onions -Io
Edward Bulwer-Lytton – The House And The Brain
Ray Bradbury – Fever Dream
J. S. LeFanu – Green Tea
H. G. Wells – The Inexperienced Ghost
M. G. Lewis – The Monk [extract]
J. R. Tolkien – The Fellowship Of The Ring [extract]
George MacDonald – The Grey Wolf
M. R. James – Lost Hearts
Nikolai Gogol – The Overcoat
Seabury Quinn – And Give Us Yesterday
Mrs Gaskell – The Old Nurse’s Story
Mark Twain – A Ghost Story
Oscar Wilde – The Picture Of Dorian Gray [extract]
Robert Bloch – Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper
Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle – The Brown Hand
Charles Dickens – To Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt
E. M. Forster – The Story Of The Siren
Algernon Blackwood – The Doll
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – She Walks On Dry Land
Edgar Allan Poe – The Black Cat

Another from the 'When Supermarkets did Ghost & Horror anthologies' range. Not quite up there with the '65' books, but a solid selection nonetheless. Extracts are as annoying as ever. Inclusion of Seabury Quinn's decidedly minor And Give Us Yesterday is something of a mystery.

* Thought this was a Mary Danby, but in their exhaustive The Supernatural Index (1995), Mike Ashley & William G Contento attribute editorship of this and Chamber of Horrors to Emma Blackley.

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Nov 14, 2016 16:33:42 GMT dem said:

Anon [Mary Danby] (ed.) - Tales From Beyond The Grave (Octopus, 1982)
Another from the 'When Supermarkets did Ghost & Horror anthologies' range. Not quite up there with the '65' books, but a solid selection nonetheless. Extracts are as annoying as ever. Inclusion of Seabury Quinn's decidedly minor And Give Us Yesterday is something of a mystery.

I presume the Seabury Quinn contribution is one of his non-de Grandin stories.

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Nov 14, 2016 16:50:43 GMT ripper said:

I presume the Seabury Quinn contribution is one of his non-de Grandin stories.

Indeed, Rip. It's a war story from Weird Tales, Jan. 1948. "Only beyond-normal forces can cancel out the last bugle call of death. What can dare the ageless evil of those forces?" A mother who lost her son in battle strikes a deal with the Devil (who speaks remarkably like de Grandin) to have him returned. Fine sentiments, but with the best will in the world, it is hardly a second The Monkey's Paw.