Posted by demonik on October 19, 2009
Dorothy L. Sayers – Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror: 3rd Series (Gollancz, 1934)

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1. Detection and Mystery
2. Mystery and Horror
A.J. Alan – The 19 Club
Martin Armstrong – Sombrero
John Betjeman – Lord Mount Prospect
Algernon Blackwood – The Wendigo
Ann Bridge – The Song in the House
D.K. Broster – Couching at the Door
Thomas Burke – The Dumb Wife
A.M. Burrage – The Bargain
A.E. Coppard – Arabesque: the Mouse
Oswald Couldrey – The Mistaken Fury
E. M. Delafield – Sophy Mason Comes Back
Lord Dunsany – Our Distant Cousins
J.F. Dwyer – A Jungle Graduate
Leonora Gregory – The Scoop
Alan Griff – The House of Desolation
L.P. Hartley – The Island
W.F. Harvey – Double Demon
Margaret Irwin – The Book
W.W. Jacobs – The Interruption
M.R. James – The Diary of Mr. Poynter
Cyril Landon – You’ll Come to the Tree in the End
John Metcalfe – Time-Fuse
J. C. Moore – Decay
Claire D. Pollexen – Stowaway
Arthur Quilter-Couch – A Pair of Hands
R.E. Roberts – The Hill
Naomi Royde-Smith – The Pattern
Herbert Shaw – What Can a Dead Man Do?
V. Sheehan – The Virtuoso
Lady Eleanor Smith – No Ships Pass
Sir Frederick Treves – The Idol With Hands of Clay
H. R. Wakefield – The Frontier Guards
H.G. Wells – The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
B. A. Williams – Witch-Trot Pond
Clarence Winchester – Anniversary
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Posted by demonik on June 1, 2008
Rick Ferreira – A Chill to the Sunlight: Tropical Stories of the Macabre (William Kimber, 1978)

(cover – Peter Archer)
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – A Chill to the Sunlight
Jean Rhys – The Day They Burned the Books
Clark Ashton Smith – The Seed from the Sepulchre
Shiva Naipaul – A Man of Mystery
Ken Kessler – Butterfly Chase
T.K. Brown III – Haunts of the Very Rich
Richard Davis – The Clump
Peter C. Smith – One Last Embrace
Evelyn Waugh – The Man Who Liked Dickens
Peter Burton – The Sun Never Forgets
Elinor Mordaunt – The Recall
Henry S. Whitehead – Jumbee
Lady Eleanor Smith – No Ships Pass
Thanks to Alan Frackelton for providing the contents and cover scan!
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Posted by demonik on September 6, 2007
Peter Haining (ed) – Dr. Caligari’s Black Book (W. H. Allen, 1968)

“For here are tales from the world of Dr. Caligari: mysterious sideshows, freaks and monsters, seances, macabre plays, and all manner of terrors lurking in the shadows.”
Introduction – Peter Haining
S. L. Dennis – The Second Awakening Of A Magician
Ray Bradbury – The Jar
Lady Eleanor Smith – Satan’s Circus
Agatha Christie – The Last Seance
August Derleth – Mrs. Elting Plays Her part
Anthony Gittens – The Third Performance
A. M. Burrage – The Waxwork
Robert Bloch – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Marcel Ayme – The Dwarf
J. B. Priestly – The Demon King
Hazel Heald – The Horror In The museum
H. R. Wakefield – Farewell Performance
Barry Pain – The End Of A Show
A second version of the book, published in paperback the following year replaces some stories:
Peter Haining (ed) – Dr. Caligari’s Black Book (Nel, 1969)

Cover: Bruce Pennington
Amber Print – Basil Copper
The Second Awakening Of A Magician – S L Dennis
The Haunted Cinema – Louis Golding
The Jar – Ray Bradbury
The Theatre Upstairs – Manly Wade Wellman
The Last Seance – Agatha Christie
Headlines For Tod Shayne – August Derleth
The Sorceror’s Apprentice – Robert Bloch
The Harlem Horror – Charles Lloyd
The End Of A Show – Barry Pain
Thanks to Calenture at Vault Of Evil for the NEL cover scan and contents.
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