Vault 2011 Advent Calendar

If you head over to our forum, check out the Vault 2011 Advent Calendar for a grisly gift every day in the lead up to Christmas. Vintage pulp meets contemporary horror fiction!

Happy Christmas to all our contributing members, friends and readers.

Love,

dem

The Hutchinson ‘Century’ Books

Hutchinson ‘Century of’ Omnibuses: 26 volumes, 1934-1938

Grateful thanks to Richard Humphreys who provided us with beautiful dust-jacket scans of the relevant entries. Mr. Humphreys’ Dennis Wheatley site was a forerunner to Bob Rothwell’s, and both can be found at Dennis Wheatley Info. It’s Richard’s listing i’ve referred to for dates and various snippets of information.

1934

• Creepy Stories
• Humour (ed. P. G. Wodehouse)
• Evening Standard Book Of Strange Stories
• Sea Stories (ed. Rafael Sabatini)

1935

• Love Stories (ed. Gilbert Frankau)
• Detective Stories (introduced by G. K. Chesterton)
• Famous Trials (ed. 1st Earl Of Birkenhead)
• 1001 Wonderful Things (ed. Walter Hutchinson)
• Book Of The King’s Jubilee (ed. Sir Philip Gibbs)
• Horror (ed. Dennis Wheatley)
• Boys Stories (ed. Francis Brett Young)
• 50 Years of Ghost Stories
• Girls Stories (ed. Ethel Boileau)
• Historical Stories (ed. Rafael Sabatini)

1936

• Western Stories (ed. George Goodchild)
• Ghost Stories [ed. Dorothy M. Thomlinson ?]
• Holiday Omnibus For All Seasons
• Holiday Omnibus For Christmas
• 2nd Century Of Humour (ed. ‘Fougasse’)
• Cavalcade Of History (ed. Claud Golding)

1937

• Evening Standard 2nd Book Of Strange Stories
• Nature Stories (ed. J. W. Robertson Scott)
• 2nd Century Of Creepy Stories (ed. Hugh Walpole)

1938

• The Fireside Omnibus
• 2nd Cavalcade Of History (ed. Claud Golding)
• More Famous Trials (ed. 1st Earl Of Birkenhead)

Even in those instances where an editor is credited, E. F. Bleiler warns against taking the attribution too seriously, so although Dennis Wheatley’s name found it’s way onto the cover of A Century Of Horror he may have had little to do with it beyond providing an introduction. From what we know of his “involvement” in the Dennis Wheatley Library Of The Occult series for Sphere forty years later, this doesn’t sound altogether unlikely. Intriguingly, Bleiler also wonders if Cynthia Asquith had some hand in compiling a few of them, in which case the prime suspect would be A Century Of Creepy Stories. Essentially, …. Creepy compiles the contents of Asquith’s The Ghost Book, When Churchyards Yawn and The Black Cap, loans Oscar Cook and ‘Flavia Richardson’ from the Not At Night series, and throws in a number of genre classics to keep everybody happy.

A Century Of Ghost Stories (1936) is a much extended edition of the previous year’s Fifty Years Of Ghost Stories. The more generous of the uncredited editors is often cited as Dorothy M. Thomlinson.

The Daily Express tried to muscle in on the Century action with two clones A Century Of Thrillers From Poe to Arlen and A Century Of Thrillers – Second Series (Odhams, 1934, 1935)

Telep – Wolfe

Trisha Telep

Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance
Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance
Love Bites: Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2

Christine Campbell Thompson

Not At Night
More Not At Night
You’ll Need A Night Light
Gruesome Cargoes
By Daylight Only
Switch On The Light
At Dead Of Night
Grim Death
Keep On The Light
Terror By Night
Nightmare By Daylight
Not At Night Omnibus

Arrow paperbacks

Not At Night
More Not At Night
Still Not At Night

H. Douglas Thomson

The Great Book Of Thrillers

Rosemary Timperley

The Fifth Ghost Book
The Sixth Ghost Book
The Seventh Ghost Book
The Eighth Ghost Book
The Ninth Ghost Book

James Turner

Fourth Ghost Book
The Unlikely Ghosts

Peter Underwood

Thirteen Famous Ghost Stories

Mark Valentine

The Black Veil
The Werewolf Pack

Herbert Van Thal

1st Pan Book Of Horror Stories
2nd Pan Book Of Horror Stories
3rd Pan Book Of Horror Stories
4th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
5th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
6th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
7th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
8th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
9th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
10th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
11th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
12th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
13th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
14th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
15th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
16th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
17th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
18th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
19th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
20th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
21st Pan Book Of Horror Stories
22nd Pan Book Of Horror Stories
23rd Pan Book Of Horror Stories
24th Pan Book Of Horror Stories
25th Pan Book Of Horror Stories

Bedside Book Of Horror
Bedside Book Of Strange Stories
2nd Bedside Book Of Strange Stories
Book Of Strange Stories
Famous Tales Of The Fantastic
Great Ghost Stories
Lie Ten Nights Awake
Striking Terror
Told In The Dark

Jacquelyn Visick

London Tales Of Terror

Ornella Volta & Valeria Riva

The Vampire: Presented By Roger Vadim

Hugh Walpole

A Second Century Of Creepy Stories

Dennis Wheatley

A Century Of Horror
Quiver Of Horror
Satanism And Witches
Shafts Of Fear
Uncanny Tales
Uncanny Tales 2
Uncanny Tales 3

Herbert A. Wise & Phyllis Fraser

Great Tales Of Terror & The Supernatural

Sebastian Wolfe

The Little Book Of Horrors

Christopher Wood

1st BHF Book Of Horror Stories
2nd BHF Book Of Horror Stories