Dancing with the Dark ed. Stephen Jones (Vista, July 10, 1997, 0-575-60166-3, £5.99, 351pp, pb, oa, cover: [photo] by Simon Marsden)
Associational anthology of memoirs, subtitled “TRUE encounters with the paranormal by masters of the macabre”.
- 11 · Dancing with the Dark · Stephen Jones · in
- 15 · My Feeling about Ghosts · Joan Aiken · bg
- 20 · Timeswitch · Sarah Ash · bg
- 23 · The Rustle in the Grass · Mike Ashley · bg
- 27 · Take Care of Grandma · Peter Atkins · bg
- 32 · Life After Death · Clive Barker · ex Faces of Fear by Douglas E. Winter, Berkley, 1985
- 34 · The Cartographer · Stephen Baxter · bg
- 37 · Not Quite So Pragmatic · Robert Bloch · ex Faces of Fear by Douglas E. Winter, Berkley, 1985
- 41 · The Nearest to a Ghost · Ramsey Campbell · bg
- 47 · Haitian Mystères · Hugh B. Cave · bg
- 52 · One-Way Trip · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · bg
- 55 · The Shock of the Macabre · A. E. Coppard · ex from Fearful Pleasures, Arkham House, 1946; from the foreword.
- 60 · The Haunted Hotel · Basil Copper · bg
- 67 · Safe Arrival · Peter Crowther · bg
- 74 · A Gift of Eagles · Jack Dann · bg
parts appeared in different form in Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine 8-1997.
- 78 · The House on Spadina · Charles de Lint · bg
- 85 · Sharing with Strangers · Terry Dowling · bg
- 90 · Hands on the Wheel · Lionel Fanthorpe · bg
- 95 · That Old School Spirit · Esther M. Friesner · bg
- 102 · Twice Encountered · Gregory Frost · bg
- 107 · The Flints of Memory Lane · Neil Gaiman · bg
- 111 · In There · Stephen Gallagher · bg
- 116 · Haunted in the Head · Ray Garton · bg
- 123 · The House on the Brink · John Gordon · bg
- 126 · Riding the Nightwinds · Ray Gorman · bg
- 129 · ESP · Elizabeth Goudge · ex from The Joy of the Snow: An Autobiography, Hodder & Stoughton, 1974
- 134 · Death Is a Lady · Simon R. Green · bg
- 136 · The Smoke Ghost · Peter Haining · bg
- 140 · Never Say Die · Joe Haldeman · bg
- 145 · Not Very Psychic · James Herbert · bg
brief extracts from 5 sources.
- 147 · Confessions of a Born-Again Heathen · Brian Hodge · bg
- 154 · To Pine with Fear and Sorrow · Nancy Holder · bg
- 158 · A Ghostly Cry · M. R. James · ex from “Ghosts—Treat Them Gently!”, The (London) Evening News April 17 1931; includes 1 line from memoirs, Eton and Kings, 1926.
- 160 · One Extra for Dinner · Peter James · bg
- 164 · A Face in the Crowd · Mike Jefferies · bg; this inspired his novel, Stone Angels.
- 169 · Raggedy Ann · Nancy Kilpatrick · bg
- 172 · Uncle Clayton · Eric Norden · ex from “Playboy Interview: Stephen King”, Playboy June 1983 [Ref. Stephen King]
- 174 · Go On, Open Your Eyes… · Hugh Lamb · bg
- 177 · Moving Houses · Terry Lamsley · bg
- 182 · Inspiration · John Landis · bg
- 186 · Norfolk Nightmare · Stephen Laws · bg
- 192 · Not Funny · Samantha Lee · bg
- 194 · The Gray Ghost · Barry B. Longyear · bg
- 199 · Witch House · H. P. Lovecraft · ex from H. P. Lovecraft: Selected Letters 1911-1924, Arkham House, 1965
- 203 · The Challenge · Brian Lumley · bg
- 210 · World of the Senses · Arthur Machen · ex from Things Near and Far, 1923
- 213 · My Grandfather’s House · Graham Masterton · bg
- 219 · More Than We Appear to Be · Richard Matheson · bg
- 221 · Visit to a Psychic Surgeon · Richard Christian Matheson · bg; revised from the version in Voices from the Night (John Maclay, 1994).
- 230 · The Fall of the Wires · Paul J. McAuley · bg
- 235 · Unto the Third Generation · Anne McCaffrey · bg
- 239 · Talkin’ Them Marble Orchard Blues · Thomas F. Monteleone · bg
- 245 · A Shadow of Tomorrow · Mark Morris · bg
- 249 · The House on Chadwell Drive · Yvonne Navarro · bg
- 254 · The Floating Table and the Jumping Violet · William F. Nolan · bg
- 257 · Mesmeric Revelation · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine August 1844
- 265 · In the Clouds · Vincent Price · ex 1996
from X-Rated: The Paranormal Experiences of the Movie Star Greats (Michael Munn).
- 267 · Clinic-Modern · Alan Rodgers · bg
- 272 · Magical Thinking · Nicholas Royle · bg
- 276 · De Cold, Cold Décolletage · Jay Russell · bg
- 281 · The Darkness Between the Frames · Adam Simon · bg
- 288 · The Mist People · Guy N. Smith · bg
- 295 · Mr Cat · Michael Marshall Smith · bg
- 299 · In the Realm of the Spirits · S. P. Somtow · bg
- 303 · Chacun Sa Goule · Brian Stableford · bg
- 309 · The Spirit of M. R. James · Laurence Staig · bg
- 315 · The Family Curse · Peter Tremayne · bg
- 320 · The Red Lodge · H. R. Wakefield · ss They Return At Evening by H. Russell Wakefield, Phillip Allan, 1928
- 323 · My Haunted Home · Lawrence Watt-Evans · bg
- 327 · The Ghost Hunters · Cherry Wilder · bg
- 330 · A Place Where a Head Would Rest · Chet Williamson · bg
- 335 · The Glowing Hand · F. Paul Wilson · bg; given by Paul F. Wilson.
- 338 · Finding My Religion · Douglas E. Winter · bg
- 341 · Kid Sister · Gene Wolfe · bg
- 347 · Acknowledgements · ms
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