Posted by demonik on January 15, 2010
Lucy Berman – The Creepy-Crawly Book (Target, 1973)
Lucy Berman – The Legend of Arachne
Sir Walter Scott – The Legend of Robert Bruce and the Spider
H. G. Wells – The Valley of Spiders
Leonard Clark – Good Company
Thomas Bulfinch – The Legend of Cadmus
Rudyard Kipling – Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
David Starr Jordan – Old Rattler and the King Snake
Ogden Nash – The Cobra (verse)
Carl Sandburg – Worms and the Wind
Lucy Berman – The Legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Bernhardt J. Hurwood – The Curse of Mouse Tower
Henry Williamson – The Mouse
William Beebe – The Vampire Bats
Joan Beadon – Rats
Randall Jarrell – Bats
Lewis Carroll – The Mouse’s Tail
Richard Henwood – The Scorpion
Gerald Durrell – Wilhelmina
Hanns Heinz Ewers – The Ants
Ogden Nash – The Ant (verse)
Ogden Nash – The Termite (verse)
Lucy Berman – The Legends of the Kraken and the Hydra
Jules Verne – The Squid (extract from [i]Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea[/i])
Victor Hugo – The Octopus
Lord Alfred Tennyson – The Kraken (verse)
Blurb:
What living thing would you LEAST like to be left alone with in a room late at night?
A large, hairy, tropical spider?
A poisonous snake?
A large rat? – with red eyes of course!
Or would you go in for smaller fry like a mouse, or a scorpion, or an ant?
Are these unpleasant creatures in every case as nasty as they seem?
Read the book and find out ….
Strictly for older boys and girls!
see also Vault’s Creepy Crawly Book thread
thanks to The Coffin Flies and Allthingshorror for the table of contents and scans.
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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…
Posted in *Severn House*, *Target*, Peter Haining | Tagged: *Severn House*, *Target*, August Derleth, Charles Birkin, Dr. Gordon Leigh Bromley, G. W. Hutter, Henry S Whitehead, Inez Wallace, Lafcadio Hearn, Peter Haining, Thomas Burke, Thorpe McClusky, Vault Of Evil, Vivian Meik, W. Stanley Moss, William Seabrook | Leave a Comment »
