Peter C. Smith – The Phantom Coach

Peter C. Smith (ed.) – The Phantom Coach (William Kimber, 1979)

Amelia B. Edwards – The Phantom Coach
James Turner – Love Me Love My Car
Charles Dickens – No 1 Branch Line: The Signalman
Mary Williams – No Ticket
E. Nesbit – John Charrington’s Wedding
Rick Ferreira – Silent Stowaway
Ambrose Bierce – The Realm of the Unreal
Ann Bridge – The Buick Saloon
E. F. Benson – In the Tube
Alex Hamilton – The Attic Express
Peter Hackett – The Woman in Black
Peter C. Smith – Synopsis of a Nightmare
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – Non-Paying Passengers 

Thanks to Severance of Vault for the cover scan and contents.

Peter C. Smith – Uninvited Guests

Peter C. Smith (ed.) – Uninvited Guests: Thirteen Unwelcome Visitors (William Kimber, 1984)

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Brian Lumley – Recognition
Fitz-James O’Brien – What Was It?
Elizabeth Bowen – The Cat Jumps
Meg Buxton – Dusty Glory
Guy de Maupassant – The Horla
H. Russell Wakefield – The Frontier Guards
Roger Malisson – Poor Chrissie
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – Madam Crowl’s Ghost
H. P. Lovecraft – The Haunter of the Dark
William Hope Hodgson – The Whistling Room
Peter C. Smith – The Strikers
E. Nesbit – Man-Size in Marble
Len Maynard – Mattie

Thirteen Stories of “guests” who did not wait for an invitation make up this anthology compiled and edited by Peter C. Smith. Among the famous authors included in this scary assembly are Guy de Maupassant; H Russell Wakefield; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; H P Lovecraft; William Hope Hodgson and E. Nesbit, while the editors eerie tale, The Strikers adds an extra dimension.

The Eastern Daily Press said that: “…the stories and good and ghastly. There are eight old favourites and five brand new ones, like the editor’s own ‘The Strikers’ about a huge, sinister, grandfather clock, which terrified me rigid.”

Thanks to Severance of Vault for the cover scan and contents.

Stephen Jones – Mammoth Book of Frankenstein

Stephen Jones (ed.) – The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein  (Robinson 1994)

Introduction: It’s Alive – Stephen Jones

Mary W. Shelley – Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Ramsey Campbell – A New Life
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Creator
Basil Copper – Better Dead
Nancy Kilpatrick – Creature Comforts
Robert Bloch – Mannikins Of Horror
Daniel Fox – El Sueno De La Razon
Manly Wade Wellman – Pithecanthropus Rejectus
John Brunner – Tantamount To Murder
Guy N. Smith – Last Train
Peter Tremayne – The Hound Of Frankenstein
Graham Masterton – Mother Of Invention
Adrian Cole – The Frankenstein Legacy
Dennis Etchison – The Dead Line
Lisa Morton – Poppi’s Monster
Karl Edward Wagner – Undertow
Roberta Lannes – A Complete Woman
David J. Schow – Last Call For The Sons Of Shock
Brian Mooney – Chandira
Kim Newman – Completist Heaven
Paul J. McAuley – The Temptation Of Dr Stein
Michael Marshall Smith – To Receive Is Better
David Case – The Dead End

Jo Fletcher – Frankenstein [verse]

See also Vault’s Mammoth Frankenstein thread

Denys Val Baker – Stories Of The Night

Denys Val Baker (ed.) – Stories Of The Night (William Kimber 1976)

 

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Hammond Innes – South Sea Bubble
L. A. G. Strong – Danse Macabre
Rhys Davies – All Through the Night
Dennis Wheatley  – The Case of the Thing that Whimpered
L. P. Hartley – The Shadow on the Wall
Agatha Christie – The Red Signal
John Steinbeck – The Snake
Ronald Duncan – Consanguinity
Vladimir Nabokov – Signs and Symbols
A. L. Rowse – Tredynham’s Folly
William Sansom – Various Temptations
Denys Val Baker – Escape
Fred Urquhart – The Lady of Sweetheart Abbey
Walter de la Mare – The Guardian
H. G. Wells – The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham

Thanks to Severance of Vault for the cover scan and contents

Denys Val Baker – Haunted Cornwall

Denys Val Baker (ed) – Haunted Cornwall (NEL, April 1975)

Editor’s Introduction

Frank Baker – Chocolate Box
Daphne Du Maurier – The Old Man
Ronald Duncan – An Act of Charity
David Eames – Inheritance
R. S. Hawker – The Botathen Ghost
Kenneth Moss – Snow
Donald R. Rawe – Night on Roughtor
M. E. Simpson – The Castle
Howard Spring – Christmas Honeymoon
Nigel Tangye – Episode
J. C. Trewin – Window in the Attic
James Turner – The Wheel
Denys Val Baker – The Sacrifice
C. C. Vyvyan – The Ghost at the Old Ford
Rosalind Wade – Shepherd, Show Me
Mary Williams – The Lost Ones

Behind the superficial holiday veneer of Cornwall, with its sandy beaches and rocky coves, lies the real land of enchantment. It is a county of moors and mists, of ancient stone monuments, derelict mines, crumbling mansions and dangerous mires. This setting, coupled with the ferocity of the storms, the lonely stretches of heather and spun by the Celtic nature of the Cornish folk, is perfect for an excursion into the world beyond the grave. The stories included here are not simply mystery tales set in Cornwall, but are an attempt to cross the natural frontiers of life and death, and to probe beyond into the forbidden half of the universe.

Thanks to Steve of Vault for the cover scan, blurb and contents

Denys Val Baker – Stories of Horror and Suspense

Denys Val Baker (ed) – Stories of Horror and Suspense (Wm. Kimber, 1977)

Cover by Claire Gammon

Introduction by Denys Val Baker

William Sansom – The Man with the Moon in him
Frank Baker – The Sack
Elizabeth Bowen – The Apple Tree
Agatha Christie – S.O.S.
Roald Dahl – Genesis and Catastrophe
Daphne du Maurier – Ganymede
Dennis Wheatley – The Golden Spaniard
Winston Graham – The Island
Alan Sillitoe – Enoch’s Two Letters
Jame Joyce – The Sisters
A.L. Rowse – Death of a Principal
Edgar Wallace – Circumstantial Evidence
Fred Urquhart – A Diver in China Seas
James Hanley – What Became of Fairfax?

Thanks to the late Bob Rothwell for providing the cover scan and contents.

Denys Val Baker – Stories Of The Occult

Denys Val Baker (ed.) – Stories Of The Occult (William Kimber 1978)

J.B. Priestley – The Grey Ones
Winston Graham – The Basket Chair
Agatha Christie – The Hound of Death
H.G. Wells – The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
Daphne du Maurier – Kiss Me Again Stranger
Dennis Wheatley – Bollinger – Very Dry
V.S. Pritchett – The Speech
Derek Stanford – The Sleep of Reason
Doris Lessing – A Sunrise on the Veld
E. Nesbit – The Three Drugs
James Turner – Fly Away Home
Rosalind Wade – The Little Ghost
Fred Urquhart – Proud Lady in a Cage

Thanks to the late Bob Rothwell for providing the cover scan and contents.

Peter Haining – Supernatural Sleuths

Peter Haining – Supernatural Sleuths (William Kimber 1986)

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Mark Lemon – The Ghost Detective
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Selecting a Ghost
E. and H. Heron – The Story of the Moor Road
Algernon Blackwood – A Victim of Higher Space
Sax Rohmer – Case of the Haunting of Grange
Henry A. Hering – The Telepather
Seabury Quinn – The Poltergeist
Gordon MacCreagh – The Sinister Shape
Gordon Hillman – Panic in Wild Harbor
Margery Lawrence – The Case of the Bronze Door
Dennis Wheatley – The Case of the Red-Headed Women
Joseph Payne Brennan – Apparition in the Sun

Thanks to the late Bob Rothwell for providing the cover scan and contents.

Denys Val Baker – Stories of the Macabre

Denys Val Baker (ed.) – Stories of the Macabre (William Kimber 1976)

Dennis Wheatley – The Case of the Red-Headed Women
William Sansom – Among the Dahlias
Agatha Christie – The Last Séance
Winston Graham – The Circus
A.L. Rowse – All Souls’ Night
James Hanley – Don Quixote Drowned
Frank Baker – In the Steam Room
Algernon Blackwood – The Stranger
Daphne du Maurier – The Chamois
Vladimir Nabokov – Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster
L.P. Hartley – W.S.
Rosalind Wade – Averil at Endercombe
H.G. Wells – The Valley of Spiders
J.C. Trewin – Summer Evening
Elizabeth Bowen – Hand in Glove

Thanks to the late Bob Rothwell for providing the cover scan and contents.

Sebastian Wolfe – The Little Book Of Horrors

Sebastian Wolfe – The Little Book Of Horrors (Xanadu, 1992)

All lovers of the grim and grisly will relish this tiny tome of terrific tales. It is a collection of very short and extremely nasty stories and poems, most only a couple of pages long, but guaranteed to appall and amuse in the best tradition of horror.

Which says it all, really. Plenty of old friends. Joe R. Lansdale, Ornella Volta (whose contributions have all been surgically removed from The Vampire), Ambrose Bierce, Jeffrey Scott from Tales Of Unease, a couple exhumed, from the Pan Horror books, some amusing ‘factual’ accounts from The Police Gazette or some-such … Probably the pick of the bunch is Richard Christian Matheson’s Red, truly one of the most shocking horror stories ever written and all over and done in two pages! It’s an ideal book to have around when you’re too lazy to attempt anything as strenuous as a Sydney J. Bounds marathon.

Here’s the run-down. It goes on for ever.

Sebastian Wolfe – Foreword

Roald Dahl – In The Ruins
John Lennon – Randolf’s Party
Richard Christian Matheson – Red
A Wide Driven Mad By A Husband Tickling Her Feet (fact)
Alexander Woolcott – Moonlight Sonata
Alistair Sampson – Untitled
George D. Painter – Meeting With A Double
Ambrose Bierce – John Mortonson’s Funeral
E. H. Visiak – The Skeleton At The Feast
Ornella Volta – Untitled
Colin West – Cousin Jane
Alistair Sampson – Untitled
Jeffrey Scot – Out Of The Country
Stephen Gallagher – Mousetrap
Singular Method Of Execution (fact)
Robert Bloch – The Model Wife
John Lennon – Good Dog Nigel
Joe R. Lansdale – Dog, Cat And Baby
Edward Gorey – Untitled
Kingsley Amis – Mason’s Life
William Plomer – The Dorking Thigh
Ornella Volta – Henri Blot (fact)
Charles Dickens – Captain Murderer
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Untitled
Joe R. Lansdale – Chompers
James Malcolm Rymer – Varney, the Vampire
Gina Haldane – Grocery List
Lafcadio Hearn – Mujina
Raymond Chandler – At Parting
Richard Middleton – Love At First Sight
W. R. Hodder – The Vampire
Singular Attempt At Suicide
Ambrose Bierce – One summer Night
Aubrey Davidson – The Edinburgh Landlady
Alistair Sampson – Delighted Deb’s Lament
Ornella Volta – Sergeant Bertrand
Richard Christian Matheson – The Near Departed
Edward Lauterbach – A Warning For Certain Victorian Ladies
John Lennon – a Surprise For Little Bobby
Ambrose Bierce – Oil Of Dog
Edward Bryant – A Functional Proof Of Immortality
Pricilla Marron -My Dear, How Dead You Look And Yet You Sweetly Sing
Horrible Cannibalism (fact)
Frederic Brown – Nightmare In Red
Alistair Sampson – Essay
M. A. Lyon – American Gothic
Liao Chai – The Corpse Rises
Dannie Plachta – Revival Meeting
Alphonse Allais – Anything They Can Do …
Jean Cocteau – The Look Of Death
Frederic Boutet – Pierre Torture (fact)
Tomasso Landolfi – Untitled
A Horrible Discovery (fact)
Gerald Atkins – The Midnight Lover
K. C. Mann – A Tale The English Used To Tell
Franz Kafka – Before The Law
Gloria Orlick – Hell Hath No –
Mark Twain – The Five Books Of Life
Arthur L. Samuels – Mass Without Voices
Lord Dufferin’s Story (fact)
Richard Christian Matheson – Deathbed
W. B. Yeats – ‘Magdalene’
Martin Gardner – Thang
Shutting A Woman’s Head In A Box (fact)
Robert Kurosaka – a Lot To Learn
Jessica Amanda Salmonson – Angel’s Exchange
Derek Pell – How To Write The Suicide Note

Acknowledgements