Vault Of Evil
Encyclopedia Phantasmagoria
This section: British Horror Anthologies:
Aickman - Burke
Campbell - Gordon
Haining
Hale - Karloff
Lamb - Parrish
Parry - Sutton
Thomson - Wolfe
The Other Tentacles
The Fontana Chapter: Fontana Horror and Ghost publications from the early ’sixties through to 1984 when the twentieth and final volume of The Fontana Book Of Ghost Stories saw print. The selection attempts to provide short plot synopsis’ of all the stories featured in the Ghost and Horror series’, the Tales Of Terror books, Mary Danby’s two volume Frighteners and more. A similar attempt is made on all four 65 Great juggernauts published by Octopus. Also includes a covers gallery.
Morbid Mayflowers: Index to the Black magic-heavy horror anthologies, novels and non-fiction published by Mayflower (sometimes in conjunction with Dell) during the ’sixties and seventies.
Pan Horrors: The famous Van Thal/ Paget Pan Book of Horror Stories and beyond.
Panther Horror: Based on the Panther Horror In Paperback listing compiled by Justin Marriott which first appeared in Paperback Dungeon #2, Summer 2007. It’s been slightly expanded for purposes of this blog, though not so you’d notice! Needless to say, there is a covers gallery.
Sordid Sphere’s: Based on Justin Marriott’s Sphere Horror In The 1970’s - The Checklist in Paperback Fanatic #1 (August 2007). Click on the book titles in bold for cover scans and/ or more information about a particular item. Also featured two image galleries covering Sphere publications of the ’seventies and ‘eighties.
Terrible Tandems: from the early ’sixties through to the mid-seventies Tandem published a small but significant number of horror and witchcraft titles and this is an attempt to catalogue them.
Revamps
Terror Takeaways: began life as the film/tv novelisation arm of the Vault site but it’s been reworked and expanded upon for EP.
Gruesome Cargoes: a straight copy of the pointless site I had on batcave. This one concerns itself with Christine Campbell Thomson’s Not At Night and Charles Birkin’s Creeps series’ from between the world wars.
*** All of the above are intended to compliment the Vault Of Evil forum which you are strongly advised to consult for further comment on many of these titles. ***
demonik 2007
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October 8, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Help! Some years ago I read a great collection of short stories by an author who’s name I have forgotten. These were adventure\horror stories, from the twenties or thirties, dealing with ghouls and crypts and an underground world of purpetual night. The entrances to this world were in graveyards. Can you help me? You folks know what you’re talking about, unlike every American site I have contacted. Thanks for your sites and interest.
October 8, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Hi Kevin
Sounds very much like you’re looking for a H. P. Lovecraft collection that includes The Rats In The Walls and Pickman’s Model. There have been several collections of his work and this is a decent modern(ish) edition, The Haunter Of The Dark (Grafton, 1985/ 1986). Love that Tim White cover!
October 22, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I’m very pleased to discover your site, which I found simultaneously wonderful and confusing, as it seems to be a sort of horror anthology search engine. I checked for myself there, but Serpent’s Tail (and my other publishers) haven’t listed any of my nine horror anthologies, which is a shame. I’m going to have a poke about in your recesses and see what I can find…keep up the great work!
Best,
Christopher Fowler
November 4, 2007 at 10:54 am
Kool site. I see from my google analytics that you have been checking out mywicked and sicksite. I’ve added “Vault” to my Wicked blogroll. Maybe you will return the favour. If you have some time check out my 666 very short stories site: some of the stuff there is quite devilish if not evil.
November 6, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Ok, Steven, you’ve been added to the roll call of the damned, as have Chris Fowler and Cliff Burns.
January 14, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I think I came to this all the wrong way around ;)
January 24, 2008 at 3:29 am
I need help! I’m trying to find the title and author of a short story I read last year. It was about an invisible vampire who followed victims around, killed them, and then attached itself to whoever happened to be nearby to repeat the process. From what I recall, it ends with a doctor making a housecall to a dying man, and then being followed out by a set of footprints. I believe it was set in early 19th century London.
Does this sound familiar to you?
January 24, 2008 at 6:44 am
Hi Segav
Sounds to me like this is John Wyndham’s Close Behind Him. You can find it in Mary Danby’s 6th Fontana Book of Horror Stories and 65 Great Spinechillers, Richard Dalby’s Vampire Stories, etc.
January 24, 2008 at 9:03 pm
That’s it! Thanks so much!
April 4, 2008 at 4:42 pm
My wife has spent a better part of the last few years trying to find a book of ghost stories she read in the 5th grade or so (@1980). All she can remember is the cover, which was of a dinner/banquet scene in an Gorey/Addams style and wrapped around the hardcover. She also seems to recall an Irish story about Dooley? and a “little man” (pretty uncommon for Irish stories, I suppose). If you guys have ANY idea, please let me know. Thanks,
Thomas
April 9, 2008 at 6:33 pm
This is a great site.
All my interest in supernatural fiction and film comes from my teenage years in the 60’s/70’s and the antholgies and collections mentioned here are all on my shelves and all much loved.
Only today on a sunny day off from work I sat and read Robert Hichens, How Love Came To Professor Guildea - wonderful. I was reminded to read it again after seeing Ramsey’s Rant in the latest Prism.
Can we get listed here?
Please.
http://www.maynard-sims.com