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The Green Ghost and Other Stories ed. Mary Danby (Armada, October 1989, 0-00-693593-1, £3.99, 507pp, pb, an)     Anthology of 42 young adult ghost stories, all taken from volumes of The Armada Ghost Book. 11 · The Green Ghost · Terry Tapp · ss The Eleventh Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1979 26 · Hallowe’en · Rita Morris · ss The Fifteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1983 34 · The Sinister Schoolmaster · Rosemary Timperley · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 47 · Hunters’ Hill · Sydney J. Bounds · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 54 · The Baby-Sitter · Alison Prince · ss The Thirteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1981 64 · The Sound of Sirens · Tony Richards · ss The Fifteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1983 82 · Dance of Death · Ken Burke · ss The Thirteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1981 91 · The Woodseaves Ghosts · Catherine Gleason · ss The Eighth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1976 102 · Lorimer’s Bride · Mary Danby · ss The Thirteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1981 116 · The Shepherd’s Dog · Joyce Marsh · ss The Seventh Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1975 131 · The Junk Room · Terry Tapp · ss The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1982 145 · This Book Belongs To… · Daphne Froome · ss The Eleventh Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1979 154 · The Murderous Ghosts · Rosemary Timperley · ss The Ninth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1977 164 · Sarah · Roger Malisson · ss The Eighth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1976 177 · A Red, Red Rose · Ruth Cameron · ss The Eighth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1976 184 · Whoever Heard of a Haunted Lift? · Alan W. Lear · ss The Fifteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1983 198 · The Girl in the Cellar · Tony Richards · ss The Thirteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1981 210 · The Longest Journey · Catherine Gleason · ss The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1982 218 · Spirit of the Trail · Sydney J. Bounds · ss The Fifteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1983 225 · The Grey Lady · Mary Danby · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 241 · Child of the Future · John Duncan · ss The Ninth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1977 251 · Lisa · Daphne Froome · ss The Ninth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1977 263 · The Train Watchers · Sydney J. Bounds · ss The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1982 269 · The Warning · Joyce Marsh · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 282 · House of Glass · Catherine Gleason · ss The Ninth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1977 296 · Teeny-Tiny · [uncredited] · vi English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, David Nutt, 1890, as by Joseph Jacobs 298 · Stella · Rosemary Timperley · ss The Eleventh Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1979 307 · Gibson’s · Ann Pilling · ss The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1982 315 · The Doll · Terry Tapp · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 333 · Mr. Jones · Mary Danby · ss The Fifteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1983 343 · The Ghostly Gardeners · Ruth Cameron · ss The Eleventh Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1979 355 · Someone Drowned · Tony Richards · ss The Twelfth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1980 368 · The Third Eye · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1982 385 · The Servant · Alison Prince · ss The Fifteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1983 399 · The Thing That Went Bump in the Night · Rosemary Timperley · ss The Thirteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1981 410 · Sir Harry Mortlake’s Clock · Joyce Marsh · ss The Eighth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1976 429 · The Haunted Circus · Sydney J. Bounds · ss The Ninth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1977 436 · The Post Room · Catherine Gleason · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 450 · The Day I Died · Terry Tapp · ss The Thirteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1981 470 · Can’t Help Laughing · Alison Prince · ss The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1982 484 · The Return of the Lorelei · Ken Burke · ss The Thirteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1981 495 · The Ghost Writer · Mary Danby · ss The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1982

Nightmares ed. Mary Danby (Armada, 1983, 0-00-692103-5, 95p, 128pp, pb, oa)     Young adult horror anthology of new and reprint stories. 7 · The Chicken · Alison Prince · ss 21 · Hobscabs · Ian Stratton Rice · ss 35 · Something Nasty · Sydney J. Bounds · ss 46 · Miss Flewitt, Miss Webb and Miss Bone · Wendy Eyton · ss The Ghost of Christmas Present by Wendy Eyton, Frederick Warne, 1980 67 · The Holiday-Makers · Roger Malisson · ss 79 · The Hat · Rosemary Timperley · ss 86 · Curfew · Lucy M. Boston · ss The House of the Nightmare ed. Kathleen Lines, The Bodley Head, 1967 100 · The Brother · Tony Richards · ss 117 · Slugs · Mary Danby · ss

Nightmares 2 ed. Mary Danby (Armada, October 1984, 0-00-692346-1, £1.25, 160pp, pb, oa)     Young-adult horror anthology of new and reprint stories. Illustrated by John Higgins. 7 · Gruesome · Alan W. Lear · ss 21 · The Baby-Sitter · Celia Fremlin · ss Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark by Celia Fremlin, Gollancz, 1970 34 · The Loony · Alison Prince · ss 55 · Evening Flight · Alan Temperley · nv 80 · Heads and Tales · Terry Tapp · ss 97 · The Lonesome Place · August Derleth · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries February 1948 109 · Creepers · Phillip C. Heath · nv Whispered Legends ed. Joey Froehlich, Froehlich, 1983 130 · The Runaways · Johnny Yen · ss 139 · Arbor Day · Mary Danby · ss

Nightmares 3 ed. Mary Danby (Armada, October 1985, 0-00-692551-0, £1.50, 128pp, pb, oa)     Young adult horror anthology. 7 · Clifftops · Antony Bennett · ss 27 · Barnacles · Johnny Yen · ss 34 · Dead Letter · Alan W. Lear · ss 53 · House of Horror · Sydney J. Bounds · ss 60 · The Diary · Samantha Lee · ss 74 · Shadow of the Rope · Roger Malisson · ss 91 · Joplin’s · Brian Mooney · ss 104 · The Shaft · Phillip C. Heath · ss 114 · Old Wiggie · Mary Danby · ss

Realms of Darkness ed. Mary Danby (Octopus US, 1985, 0-86273-244-1, $8.95, 796pp, hc, an)     Compiled for sale through the Marks & Spencer’s chain of stores. 11 · Introduction · Christopher Lee · in 15 · Denton’s Death · Martin Amis · ss Encounter 1976 20 · In the Slaughteryard · [uncredited] · ss The Adventures of the Adventurer’s Club, Gardner & Co., 1890 32 · The Dead Man of Varley Grange · Elizabeth Anna Hart, uncredited · ss 1878 44 · Footsteps Invisible · Robert Arthur · ss Argosy January 20 1940 56 · The Potter’s Art · Denys Val Baker · ss The Secret Place by Denys Val Baker, William Kimber, 1977 63 · The Thing in the Hall · E. F. Benson · nv The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills & Boon, 1912 73 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891 77 · The Mannikin · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales April 1937 91 · They Bite · Anthony Boucher · ss Unknown Worlds August 1943 101 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941 107 · The Crown Derby Plate · Marjorie Bowen · ss Grace Latouche and the Warringtons by Marjorie Bowen, Selwyn & Blount, 1931 117 · The Kite · Christianna Brand · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1968, as “King of the Air” 123 · Blind Man’s Hood · John Dickson Carr · ss The Sketch Christmas 1937, as by Carter Dickson 139 · The Door · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss Cold Terror by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Tandem, 1973 152 · The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael · Agatha Christie · ss The Hound of Death and Other Stories by Agatha Christie, Odhams, 1933 169 · Blackberries · Roger Clarke · ss The Sixteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1983 180 · The Moon Web · Adrian Cole · ss The Eleventh Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1978 192 · The Horror of Abbot’s Grange · Frederick Cowles · ss The Horror of Abbot’s Grange by Frederick Cowles, Muller, 1936 206 · The Screaming Skull · F. Marion Crawford · nv Collier’s July 11 1908 (+1) 230 · Pig · Roald Dahl · ss Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960 247 · Robbie · Mary Danby · ss The Fifteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1982 261 · The Extra Passenger · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales January 1947, as by Stephen Grendon 268 · The Witch’s Bone · William Croft Dickinson · ss Dark Encounters by William Croft Dickinson, Harvill Press, 1963 277 · The Four-Fifteen Express · Amelia B. Edwards · nv Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867, 1866 299 · The Haunted Haven · A. E. Ellis · ss The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories ed. Robert Aickman, Fontana, 1972 307 · The Sexton’s Adventure · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine January 1851, uncredited. 313 · The Black Ferry · John Galt · ss The Club Book ed. Andrew Picken, Cochrane & Pickersgill, 1831, as “The Book of Life” 323 · Friends · Catherine Gleason · ss Frighteners 2 ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1976 335 · The Circus · Winston Graham · nv Winter’s Crimes 6 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1974 352 · Where the Woodbine Twineth · Davis Grubb · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1964, as “You Never Believe Me” 359 · Waking or Sleeping · Willis Hall · ss The Midnight Ghost Book ed. James Hale, Barrie & Jenkins, 1978 368 · Someone in the Lift · L. P. Hartley · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 373 · The Peculiar Case of Mrs. Grimmond · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1973 381 · The Trapdoor · C. D. Heriot · ss Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries ed. J. M. Parrish & John R. Crossland, Odhams Press, 1936 390 · The Day of Reckoning · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1974 403 · An Invitation to the Hunt · George Hitchcock · ss San Francisco Review March 1960 411 · Taboo · Geoffrey Household · ss The Salvation of Pisco Gabar by Geoffrey Household, Chatto, 1938 428 · Guests from Gibbet Island · Washington Irving · ss The Knickerbocker October 1839 438 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · nv The London Mercury September 1930 450 · The Three Sisters · W. W. Jacobs · ss Night Watches by W. W. Jacobs, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914 457 · The Haunted Dolls’ House · M. R. James · ss The Empire Review February 1923; written to fill a miniature book in the library of Queen Mary’s doll house. 467 · The Yellow Cat · Michael Joseph · ss Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine June 1924 476 · The Reaper’s Image · Stephen King · ss Startling Mystery Stories Spring 1969 483 · Soldier Key [Brigadier Ffellowes] · Sterling E. Lanier · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1968 507 · The Sanguivites · Kay Leith · ss The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1975 518 · Hybrid · L. A. Lewis · ss Tales of the Grotesque by L. A. Lewis, Allan, 1934 530 · The Black Druid · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales July 1930 537 · The Tomb of Sarah · F. G. Loring · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1900 548 · The Skeleton Hand · Agnes MacLeod · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine October 1894 554 · The Man from Glasgow · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Creatures of Circumstance by W. Somerset Maugham, Heinemann, 1947 revised from “Told in the Inn at Algeciras” (The Woman at Home, February 1905). 563 · The Hostelry · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r) translated from the French. 574 · The Phantom of the Lake · Edmund Mitchell · ss The Argosy (UK) June 1886 584 · The Thing in the Upper Room · Arthur Morrison · ss The Story-teller May 1910 592 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 597 · The Demon King · J. B. Priestley · ss The Strand Magazine January 1931 608 · Peekaboo · Bill Pronzini · ss Nightmares ed. Charles L. Grant, Playboy, 1979 613 · The Black Lake · Tony Richards · ss Realms of Darkness ed. Mary Danby, Octopus, 1985 621 · The Red Turret · Flavia Richardson · ss Switch on the Light ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, Selwyn & Blount, 1931 629 · Intercom · Agnes Short · ss The After Midnight Ghost Book ed. James Hale, Hutchinson, 1980 639 · Examination Day · Henry Slesar · ss Playboy February 1958 643 · The Devil’s Ape · Barnard Stacey · ss The Evening Standard January 16 1933 649 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891 664 · Polish the Lid · Terry Tapp · ss The Fourteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1981 677 · Evening Flight · Alan Temperley · nv Nightmares 2 ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1984 691 · Dengué Fever · Paul Theroux · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Cape, 1975 700 · Message for Margie · Christine Campbell Thomson · ss The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1964 708 · Harry · Rosemary Timperley · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 719 · Lucky’s Grove · H. Russell Wakefield · nv The Clock Strikes Twelve by H. Russell Wakefield, Herbert Jenkins, 1940 737 · Tarnhelm · Hugh Walpole · ss Liberty December 28 1929 750 · The Tibetan Box · Elizabeth Walter · ss Snowfall and Other Chilling Events by Elizabeth Walter, Harvill Press, 1965 765 · The Sea-Raiders · H. G. Wells · ss The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement December 6 1896 774 · A Thin Gentleman with Gloves · Simon West · ss Weird Tales November 1943, as by August Derleth 785 · The Case of the Haunted Chateau [Neils Orsen] · Dennis Wheatley · ss Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts by Dennis Wheatley, Hutchinson, 1943

65 Great Murder Mysteries ed. Mary Danby (Octopus, 1983, 0-86273-083-X, 653pp, hc, an)     Also with an additional story as Great Murder Mysteries ed. Anon. (Octopus/Chartwell 1988). 9 · Evidence in Camera · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine June 1949 22 · The Case of the Emerald Sky [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch July 10 1940 30 · Acid Test · Margot Arnold · ss The Tenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1977 37 · Eye Witness · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 28 1939 49 · The Murder of the Mandarin · Arnold Bennett · ss Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett, Chapman & Hall, 1907 59 · Nemesis · Phyllis Bentley · ss The Windsor Magazine July 1939 68 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 82 · Sweets to the Sweet · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales March 1947 89 · Nightmare in Yellow · Fredric Brown · vi The Dude May 1961 91 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 106 · Baby · Ramsey Campbell · ss Star Book of Horror, No. 2 ed. Hugh Lamb, Star Books, 1976 121 · A Note for the Milkman · Sidney Carroll · ss Today’s Woman April 1950 130 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 5 1910, as “The Bolt from the Blue” 143 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Sunday Dispatch September 22 1929, as “The Uncrossed Path” 151 · Coroner’s Inquest · Marc Connelly · vi Collier’s February 8 1930 156 · Banquo’s Chair · Rupert Croft-Cooke · ss Pharaoh and His Waggons and Other Stories by Rupert Croft-Cooke, Jarrolds, 1937 162 · Esmeralda · John Keir Cross · ss The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross, John Westhouse, 1944 177 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953 186 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited. 195 · The Corpse Light · Dick Donovan · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899 204 · The Veiled Lodger [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Liberty January 22 1927, as “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” 213 · Surprise! Surprise! · Roger F. Dunkley · ss The Eleventh Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1978 219 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 230 · The Kill · Peter Fleming · ss Creeps by Night ed. Dashiell Hammett, John Day, 1931 240 · Something to Do with Figures · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #21, March 1945 249 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 257 · The Blood on the Innocents · Celia Fremlin · ss By Horror Haunted by Celia Fremlin, Gollancz, 1974 264 · The Squire’s Story · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · ss Household Words Christmas 1853, uncredited. 277 · Earth to Earth · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955 281 · Mrs. Manifold · Stephen Grendon · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949 291 · The Two Vaynes · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review #22, December 1950 300 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 305 · Dark Journey · Francis Iles · ss News Chronicle April 30 1934 (+4) 320 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Queen June 23 1900 330 · Moment of Power · P. D. James · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1968 345 · Another Shot in the Locker · Michael Kent · ss Pearson’s Magazine June 1929 352 · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap by Rudyard Kipling, Macmillan, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray” 362 · The Lady with the Hatchet [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · ss Metropolitan May 1922 379 · A Thousand Deaths · Jack London · ss The Black Cat May 1899 387 · Homicidal Hiccup · John D. MacDonald · ss Detective Tales June 1948 393 · The Sound of Murder · William P. McGivern · ss Bluebook October 1952 402 · An Official Position · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan July 1937 419 · Vendetta · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903, as “Semillante” translated from the French (“Une vendetta”, Le Gaulois, October 14, 1883). 423 · Such a Good Idea · Andrea Newman · ss Tales of Unease ed. John Burke, Pan, 1966 429 · The Regent’s Park Murder [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1901 441 · The Blind Spot · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #25, November 1945 452 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 458 · The House by the Headland · “Sapper” · ss The Sovereign Magazine March 1920 470 · Suspicion · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Mystery League October 1933 483 · The Second Step · Margery Sharp · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1934 491 · The Case of Arnold Schuttringer [Monsieur Froget] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1942 translated from the French (Les 13 Coupables, 1932). 498 · The People Next Door · Pauline C. Smith · ss The Mysterious Traveler Magazine June 1952 503 · The King of Spades · Nancy Spain · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 510 · The Portobello Road · Muriel Spark · nv Winter’s Tales 2, Macmillan, 1956 528 · Blue Murder · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine October 1925 544 · The Murder · John Steinbeck · ss North American Review April 1934 554 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 567 · The Secret of the Growing Gold · Bram Stoker · ss Black & White January 23 1892 578 · A Theme for Hyacinth · Julian Symons · ss Argosy (UK) August 1967 596 · Miss Smith · William Trevor · ss Transatlantic Review #25, Summer 1967 605 · The Treasure Hunt [J. G. Reeder] · Edgar Wallace · ss Flynn’s November 22 1924 619 · The Snow · Hugh Walpole · ss The (London) Evening News December 21 1928 626 · The Cone · H. G. Wells · ss Unicorn September 18 1895 635 · In the Fog · Dennis Wheatley · ss The (London) Evening News May 29 1953 640 · The Cyprian Bees [Dr. Eustace Hailey] · Anthony Wynne · ss Flynn’s February 6 1926