Posted by demonik on June 11, 2012
Peter Haining (ed.) – Murder On The Menu: A Gourmet Guide To Death (Chancellor 1993: originally Souvenir, 1991)

Cover design: Slatter-Anderson
Peter Haining – Introduction
I. Specialities de la Maison: Stories By Some Famous Authors
Stanley Ellin – The Speciality Of The House
Ruth Rendell – Bribery And Corruption
Paul Gallico – Chef d’Oeuvre
Oliver La Farge – La Specialite de M Duclos
L. P. Hartley – Three, or Four, for Dinner
Gaston Leroux – A Terrible Tale
Damon Runyon – So You Won’t Talk!
Patricia Highsmith – Sauce for the Goose
P. D. James – A Very Commonplace Murder
II. Entrees Historigues: Tales From The Culinary Past.
August Derleth – A Dinner at Imola
Robert Bloch – The Feast in the Abbey
Alphonse Daudet – The Three Low Masses
Alexander Pushkin – The Coffin-Maker
Washington Irving – Guests from Gibbet Island
Richard Dehan – The Compleat Housewife
Walter Besant & James Rice – The Case of Mr Lucraft
G. B. Stern – The Man who Couldn’t Taste Pepper
Roger Zelazny – Final Dining
III. Just Desserts. A Section Of Detective Cases
Agatha Christie – Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
H. C. Bailey – The Long Dinner
Nicholas Blake – The Assassins’ Club
Roy Vickers – Dinner for Two
Michael Gilbert – A Case for Gourmets
Lawrence G. Blochman – Rum for Dinner
Georges Simenon – Under the Hammer
Rex Stout – Poison a la Carte
Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter
Blurb:
Murder On The Menu is a mouth-watering collection of short stories from the masters of mystery, where food and death meet with devastating effect.
Posted in *Souvenir*, Phyllis Fraser | Tagged: *Souvenir*, Agatha Christie, Alexander Pushkin, Alphonse Daudet, August Derleth, cannibalism, Chancellor, Crime, Damon Runyon, fiction, G. B. Stern, Gaston Leroux, Georges Simenon, H. C. Bailey, horror, L. P. Hartley, Lawrence G. Blochman, Michael Gilbert, Nicholas Blake, Oliver La Farge, P. D. James, Patricia Highsmith, Paul Gallico, Peter Haining, Rex Stout, Richard Dehan, Roald Dahl, Robert Bloch, Roger Zelazny, Roy Vickers, Ruth Rendell, Slatter-Anderson, Stanley Ellin, Vault Of Evil, Walter Besant & James Rice, Washington Irving | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on February 11, 2009
It’s one of the enduring mysteries surrounding the awards that horror people are so fond of bestowing upon one another: Why Wordsworth Editions, arguably the best thing to happen to the genre in the noughties, are so notably absent from each and every nominations list? Over the past few years their ludicrously tiny staff have been responsible for reissuing long sought novels and collections by the likes of R. Murray Gilchrist, Marjorie Bowen, Dennis Wheatley, May Sinclair, G. W. M. Reynolds and Mrs. Everett at a budget price (most of their stock retails at £2.99) and now here’s YOUR chance to have a shout in which authors they publish in 2010!
There are two polls: one comprising twenty authors whose work is out of copyright from which you may select up to five to be considered for publication in the ‘Mystery & The Supernatural’ series.
The second is limited to five authors – H. R. Wakefield, L. T. C. Holt, A. M. Burrage, Hugh Walpole & Arthur Machen – from whom you may select the two you’d most like to see back in print.
also, our friends at Wordsworth have kindly stumped up for a lucky dip!
“As a token of our thanks, everyone who votes in our poll (or has previously contributed a suggestion through email) will be put into a lucky dip, and 2 of you will win £50 of Amazon vouchers to use as you wish (although if you want to spend them on Wordsworth books, that’s fine with us!)”
Details on the Vault of Evil forum (i’m afraid you’ll have to register: don’t worry – just delete your account at the end of February once you’ve been entered for the lucky dip!)
Polls close on 28th February 2009 so get in quick!
Choose wisely, now.
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Posted in *Wordsworth" | Tagged: A. M. Burrage, Amyas Northcote, Arthur Machen, Barry Pain, Bernard Capes, Dennis Wheatley, Dick Donovan, E. & H. Heron, E. F. Benson, E. G. Swain, fiction, Fitz-James O'Brien, G. W. M. Reynolds, Gaston Leroux, Guy Dent, H. R. Wakefield, Henry S Whitehead, Hugh Walpole, L. T. C. Holt, Marie Corelli, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, May Sinclair, Mystery, R. Murray Gilchrist, Robert W. Chambers, S S Van Dine, Sabine Baring-Gould, Sarah Orne Jewett, Supernatural, Valt Of Evil, Vernon Lee, Vincent O'Sullivan, W. C. Morrow, Wordsworth Editions | 1 Comment »
Posted by demonik on December 15, 2007
Peter Haining – Classic Horror Omnibus Volume 1 (New English Library, 1979)

Peter Haining – Introduction
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Clemence Housman – The Werewolf
Bram Stoker – Dracula
Gaston Leroux – The Phantom Of The Opera
Posted in *NEL*, Peter Haining | Tagged: *NEL*, Bram Stoker, Clemence Housman, Dracula, fiction, Frankenstein, Gaston Leroux, horror, Jekyll & Hyde, Mary Shelley, new english library, Peter Haining, Phantom Of The Opera, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Phantom Of The Opera, The Werewolf, Vault Of Evil, Werewolf | Leave a Comment »