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Archive for September 21st, 2007

Giles Gordon – Scottish Ghost Stories

Posted by demonik on September 21, 2007

Giles Gordon (ed) – Scottish Ghost Stories (Senate, 1996: Lomond, 2000: originally published as Prevailing Spirits: A Book of Scottish Ghost Stories (Hamish Hamilton,  1976: Panther, 1977: Grafton, 1986.)

Scottish Ghost Stories

Forbes Bramble – Holiday
George MacKay Brown – Beliah
Elspeth Davie – The Foothold
James Allan Ford – A Kind of Possession
Antonia Fraser – Who’s Been Sitting in My Car
Clifford Hanley – The Haunted Chimley
Dorothy K. Haynes – The Curator
Angus Wolfe Murray – The Curse of Mathair Nan Uisgeachan
Robert Nye –  Randal
Iain Crichton Smith – The Brothers
Fred Urquhart – Proud Lady in a Cage
Gordon Williams – The Horseshoe Inn

Cover shown is the Lomond edition. Thanks to Steve Goodwin for providing info on the early publishing history.

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Alex Hamilton – Best Horror Stories 3

Posted by demonik on September 21, 2007

Alex Hamilton (ed) – Best Horror Stories 3 (Faber, 1972)

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Introduction – Alex Hamilton

J.G. Ballard – Track 12
Patricia Highsmith – The Snail Watcher
Roald Dahl – Dip in the Pool
Richard Matheson – Deadline
Saki – The Hounds of Fate 
William Sansom – A Woman Seldom Found
Peter Fleming – The Kill 
Penelope Mortimer – The Skylight
Shirley Jackson – The Lottery 
Martin Armstrong – The Pipe Smoker
T.F. Powys – The Hunted Beast
Ray Bradbury – The Whole Town’s Sleeping
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – Housebound
Robert Aickman – Ringing the Changes
Alex Hamilton – The Attic Express
Fredric Brown – Don’t Look Behind You

Thanks to PeterC of Vault for the details.

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