Posted by demonik on December 14, 2007
Peter Haining (ed.) – Ghost Movies II: Famous Supernatural Television Programmes (Severn House, 1996)
Peter Haining – Prologue: A Night of Terror-Vision
Susan Hill – Farthing Hall (The Woman in Black)
Bennett Cerf – Room for One More (Great Ghost Stories)
Algernon Blackwood – The Listener (Mystery and Imagination)
M. R. James – The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (Ghost Story for Christmas)
Elizabeth Taylor – Poor Girl (Haunted)
Leon Garfield – The Constable’s Tale (The Ghost Downstairs)
George A. Romero – Clay (Tales from the Darkside)
William F. Nolan – Terror at London Bridge
Elizabeth Jane Howard – Three Miles Up (Ghosts)
Dean Koontz – The Black Pumpkin (Phantoms)
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Posted by demonik on September 6, 2007
Peter Haining (ed) – Zombie: Tales Of The Walking Dead (Severn House, 1985, Target, 1985)
Introduction: Peter Haining
William Seabrook – Dead Men Working In The Cane Fields
G. W. Hutter – Salt Is Not For Slaves
Lafcadio Hearn – The Country Of The Comers-Back
Henry S. Whitehead – Jumbee
Vivian Meik – White Zombie
Inez Wallace – I Walked With A Zombie
Dr. Gordon Leigh Bromley – America Zombie
Thorpe McClusky – While Zombies Walked
August Derleth – The House In The Magnolias
W. Stanley Moss – The Zombie Of Alto Parana
Charles Birkin – Ballet Negre
Thomas Burke – The Hollow Man
Blurb (Target paperback)
Even the human fear of death pales beside the terror of the undead.
The zombie – the walking dead man – brings the realms of the supernatural well within the bounds of belief, for the reawakened corpse is a horrifyingly imaginable phenomenon.
From the early ‘Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields’ by W. E. Seabrook to W. Stanley Moss’s masterly ‘The Zombie of Alto Parana’ and the more recent ‘Ballet Negre’ by English writer Charles Birkin, Peter Haining’s collection of the best of zombie stories is guaranteed to chill the blood and raise the hairs on the back of your neck…
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Posted by demonik on September 6, 2007
Peter Haining (ed) – Werewolf: Horror Stories Of The Man-Beast (Severn House, 1987)
Cover: Trevor Newman
Introduction – Peter Haining
Catherine Crowe – The Lycanthropist
Henry Beaugrand – The Werwolves
Algernon Blackwood – The Wolves Of God
Oliver Onions – The Master Of The House
Montague Summers – The Phantom Werewolf
Guy Endore – The Wolf Girl
Seabury Quinn – Fortune’s Fools
Robert E. Howard – Wolfshead
Paul Selonke – Beast Of The Island
Jane Rice – The Refugee
Robert Bloch – The Man Who Cried ‘Wolf!’
Ralph Thornton – I Was A Teenage Werewolf
T. H. White – The Point Of Thirty Miles
Basil Copper – Cry Wolf
James Farlowe – The Demythologised Lycanthrope
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