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The Fourth Target Book of Horror ed. Kurt Singer (Target, 1985, 0-426-19887-5, 142pp, pb, an)     Stories from Weird Tales of the Supernatural (W.H. Allen, 1966), Tales from the Unknown (W.H. Allen, 1970), Ghouls and Ghosts (W.H. Allen, 1972), Satanic Omnibus (W.H. Allen, 1973), and They Are Posessed (W.H. Allen 1976). 7 · The House and the Brain · Lord Lytton · nv A Strange Story and the Haunted and the Haunters by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865 revised from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859 (anonymously) to remove material reused in A Strange Story. 39 · The “Ouanga” Charm · W. B. Seabrook · ss (r) 63 · The Green Jewel of Death · Princess Catherine Radziwill · ar Liberty July 31 1926 74 · The Phantom Coach · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1864, as “Another Past Lodger Relates His Own Ghost Story”, uncredited.; erroneously by-lined Elma B. Edwards. 90 · Ghosts Come to Hell · Pat Scholer · ss (r) 102 · Wages of Envy · Mark Bartholomeusz · nv (r) 130 · White Lady of the Hohenzollerns · Clyde Clark · ss (r)

Ghouls and Ghosts ed. Kurt Singer (W.H. Allen, 1972, 0-491-00339-0, 320pp, hc, an)     Standard Singer selection of classics and pulp stories. 9 · Preface · Kurt Singer · pr 11 · Birthmark [Carmichael] · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales September 1941 33 · The Screaming Skull · F. Marion Crawford · nv Collier’s July 11 1908 (+1) 60 · Death’s Bouquet · Peter Phillips · ss Weird Tales September 1948 71 · Sir Edmund Orme · Henry James · nv Black & White November 25 1891 97 · Vampire Kith and Kin [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales May 1949 116 · The Valley of the Assassins · Edmond Hamilton · nv Weird Tales November 1943 146 · The Nameless Mummy · Arlton Eadie · nv Weird Tales May 1932 161 · The Horla · Guy de Maupassant · nv The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Le Horla”, Gil Blas, October 26, 1886). 183 · The Man Who Cried “Wolf!” · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales May 1945 209 · A Terribly Strange Bed · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words #109, April 24 1852, uncredited. 220 · The Seventh Man · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by A. T. Quiller-Couch, Cassell & Company, 1900 232 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891 249 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Magazine April 1912 259 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910 287 · Götterdämmerung · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales May 1938

Gothic Horror Book ed. Kurt Singer (W.H. Allen, 1974, 0-491-01760-X, x+305pp, hc, an)     The usual Kurt Singer anthology with most stories selected from recent reprint sources, chiefly the Health Knowledge magazines. ix · Preface · Kurt Singer · pr 1 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review December 1845 11 · Amy Foster · Joseph Conrad · nv The Illustrated London News December 14 1901 (+2) 41 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 64 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited. 98 · For Services Rendered [Shop] · Stephen Goldin · ss Magazine of Horror February 1970 110 · The Roc Raid · George B. Tuttle · nv Weird Tales November 1929 147 · The Plague of the Living Dead · A. Hyatt Verrill · nv Amazing Stories April 1927 186 · The Duel of the Sorcerers · Paul Ernst · na Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror March 1932 260 · The Cloth of Madness · Seabury Quinn · nv Young’s Magazine January 1920 284 · The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885

The Gothic Reader ed. Kurt Singer (Ace, 1966, K-244, 50¢, 253pp, pb, an) 7 · Shadow in Beige · Dorothy Eden · na 1960 84 · The Duenna · Marie Belloc Lowndes · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 98 · The Alibi · Daphne du Maurier · nv 1956 140 · Spinsters’ Rest · Clemence Dane · nv Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine September 1925 166 · Mrs. Lannisfree · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales November 1945 175 · The Villa Désirée · May Sinclair · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine December 1921 187 · Mrs. Lunt · Hugh Walpole · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 202 · The Amorous Ghost · Enid Bagnold · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 208 · Chemical · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 232 · Schalken the Painter · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, James McGlashan, 1851 revised from “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” (Dublin University Magazine May 1839).

Horror Omnibus ed. Kurt Singer (W.H. Allen, 1965, 25/-, 317pp, hc, an)     Mixture of classic and pulp horror stories with many selected from the Magazine of Horror. 7 · The Yellow Sign · Robert W. Chambers · nv The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, F. Tennyson Neely, 1895 25 · The Last Dawn · Frank Lillie Pollock · ss The Argosy June 1906, as “Finis” 37 · The Dreams in the Witch-House [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales July 1933 76 · Mrs. Amworth · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine June 1922 92 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited.; given as by Charles Collins & Charles Dickens. 104 · The House of the Worm [Cthulhu] · Mearle Prout · nv Weird Tales October 1933 125 · Last Act: October · Tigrina · ss Phantom July 1958 142 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925 157 · The Man with a Thousand Legs · Frank Belknap Long, Jr. · nv Weird Tales August 1927 182 · The Pacer · August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer · ss Weird Tales March 1930; given as by August W. Derleth alone. 194 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” 208 · Cassius [Gerald Canevin] · Henry S. Whitehead · nv Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror November 1931 245 · Clay · C. Hall Thompson · nv Weird Tales May 1948 269 · Schalken the Painter · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, James McGlashan, 1851 revised from “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” (Dublin University Magazine May 1839). 290 · Caverns of Horror [Stranger Club] · Laurence Manning · nv Wonder Stories March 1934

The House in the Valley & Other Tales of Terror ed. Kurt Singer (Sphere, 1970, 142pp, pb, an)     abridged from Tales of Terror, (W.H. Allen, 1967) along with The Day of the Dragon. 9 · Introduction · Kurt Singer · in Tales of Terror ed. Kurt Singer, W.H. Allen, 1967 11 · The House in the Valley · August Derleth · nv Weird Tales July 1953 41 · Death Went That Way · Allison V. Harding · ss Weird Tales November 1943 55 · Dream-Dust from Mars · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories February 1938 80 · The Frightened Planet · Sidney Austen · ss Amazing Stories October 1948 96 · The Handler · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales January 1947 107 · Repayment · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales January 1943 119 · We, the Invisible · Frank Belknap Long · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories February 1938

I Can’t Sleep at Night ed. Kurt Singer (Whiting & Wheaton, April 1966, 21/-, 238pp, hc, an) 7 · The Watchers · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May 1945 27 · Outside of Time · Carroll John Daly · ss Weird Tales January 1950 47 · The Family · Margaret St. Clair · vi Weird Tales January 1950 52 · Skydrift · Emil Petaja · ss Weird Tales November 1949 65 · Mistress Sary · William Tenn · ss Weird Tales May 1947 80 · The Dead Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales July 1945 93 · The Lost Day · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales May 1945 105 · The Man Who Cried “Wolf!” · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales May 1945 139 · The Smiling Face · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales January 1950 160 · Welcome Home! · Charles King · ss Weird Tales May 1945 177 · These Debts Are Yours · Arthur J. Burks · nv Weird Tales November 1949 208 · Ship-in-a-Bottle · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Weird Tales January 1945 223 · Please Go ’Way and Let Me Sleep · Helen W. Kasson · ss Weird Tales March 1945

Kurt Singer’s Ghost Omnibus ed. Kurt Singer (W.H. Allen, 1965, 25/-, 287pp, hc, an)     UK pb split as Ghost Omnibus and Second Ghost Omnibus. 7 · The Shadow from the Steeple [Cthulhu] · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales September 1950 27 · The House Beyond Midnight · Allison V. Harding · nv Weird Tales January 1947 42 · Mrs. Lannisfree · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales November 1945 50 · What Beckoning Ghost? · Harold Lawlor · ss Weird Tales July 1948 67 · A Witch’s Curse · Paul Ernst · nv Weird Tales February 1929 87 · The Insistent Ghost · Emil Petaja · ss Weird Tales September 1950 101 · They Shall Rise · August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer · ss Weird Tales April 1936 120 · The Wolf-Girl of Josselin · Arlton Eadie · nv Weird Tales August 1938 148 · Lords of the Ghostlands [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales March 1945 172 · The Druidic Doom · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales April 1936 190 · Song of Death · A. W. Calder · ss Weird Tales June 1938 204 · The Graveyard Horror · Thorp McClusky · nv Weird Tales March 1941 228 · Rain, Rain, Go Away! · Gardner F. Fox · ss Weird Tales May 1946 245 · The Half-Haunted [Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] · Gans T. Field · ss Weird Tales September 1941 259 · The Blue Spectacles · Stephen Grendon · ss Weird Tales July 1949 268 · Catspaws [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales July 1946

Kurt Singer’s Ghost Omnibus (var. 1) ed. Kurt Singer (Four Square, November 1967, 1961, 3/6d, 126pp, pb, an)     First half of the W.H. Allen 1965 hc edition. 7 · The Shadow from the Steeple [Cthulhu] · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales September 1950 24 · The House Beyond Midnight · Allison V. Harding · nv Weird Tales January 1947 37 · Mrs. Lannisfree · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales November 1945 43 · What Beckoning Ghost? · Harold Lawlor · ss Weird Tales July 1948 57 · A Witch’s Curse · Paul Ernst · nv Weird Tales February 1929 75 · The Insistent Ghost · Emil Petaja · ss Weird Tales September 1950 86 · They Shall Rise · August W. Derleth & Mark Schorer · ss Weird Tales April 1936 102 · The Wolf-Girl of Josselin · Arlton Eadie · nv Weird Tales August 1938

Kurt Singer’s Ghost Omnibus (var. 2) ed. Kurt Singer (Leisure Books, July 1971, 0-8439-0020-2, 75¢, 174pp, pb, an)     abridged from W.H. Allen, 1965 edition. 7 · Mrs. Lannisfree · August W. Derleth · ss Weird Tales November 1945 20 · What Beckoning Ghost? · Harold Lawlor · ss Weird Tales July 1948 47 · Lords of the Ghostlands [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales March 1945 86 · The Druidic Doom · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales April 1936 115 · Song of Death · A. W. Calder · ss Weird Tales June 1938 138 · The Half-Haunted [Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] · Gans T. Field · ss Weird Tales September 1941 161 · The Blue Spectacles · Stephen Grendon · ss Weird Tales July 1949

Kurt Singer’s Second Ghost Omnibus ed. Kurt Singer (Four Square, December 1967, 3/6d, 125pp, pb, an)     Second half of the W.H. Allen 1965 hc edition. 7 · Lords of the Ghostlands [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales March 1945 27 · The Druidic Doom · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales April 1936 42 · Song of Death · A. W. Calder · ss Weird Tales June 1938 54 · The Graveyard Horror · Thorp McClusky · nv Weird Tales March 1941 74 · Rain, Rain, Go Away! · Gardner F. Fox · ss Weird Tales May 1946 89 · The Half-Haunted [Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant] · Gans T. Field · ss Weird Tales September 1941 101 · The Blue Spectacles · Stephen Grendon · ss Weird Tales July 1949 108 · Catspaws [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales July 1946

The Oblong Box and Other Tales of the Uncanny ed. Kurt Singer (Sphere, 1970, 78530, 5/-, 159pp, pb, an)     abridged from Tales of the Uncanny, (W.H. Allen, 1968) along with The Plague of the Living Dead. 9 · Almost Immortal · Austin Hall · nv All-Story Weekly October 7 1916 54 · The Leaden Ring · S. Baring-Gould · ss A Book of Ghosts by Sabine Baring-Gould, Methuen, 1904 68 · The Oblong Box · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book September 1844 80 · The Ghostly Rental · Henry James · nv Scribner’s Monthly September 1876 113 · Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Knickerbocker January 1837, as “The Fountain of Youth”, uncredited. 123 · Lazarus · Leonid Andreyeff · ss Current Literature May 1907 translated from the Russian (“Eleazar”, 1906). 142 · The Voice · Ella Banks; as told to Nell Kay · ss Ghost Stories July 1928, as “Our Haunted Taxi Ride”; given as by Nell Kay.

The Plague of the Living Dead and More Tales of the Uncanny ed. Kurt Singer (Sphere, 1970, 78549, 5/-, 159pp, pb, an)     abridged from Tales of the Uncanny, (W.H. Allen, 1968) along with The Oblong Box. 9 · The Plague of the Living Dead · A. Hyatt Verrill · nv Amazing Stories April 1927 46 · The Mask · Robert W. Chambers · nv The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, F. Tennyson Neely, 1895 63 · The Affair at 7 Rue de M— · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Bazaar April 1955 71 · Under the Hau Tree · Katherine Yates · ss Weird Tales November 1925 80 · The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885 101 · The Abyss [Cthulhu] · Robert A. W. Lowndes · ss Stirring Science Stories February 1941 109 · Fever Dream · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales September 1948 115 · Spawn of the Green Abyss [Cthulhu] · C. Hall Thompson · nv Weird Tales November 1946

Satanic Omnibus ed. Kurt Singer (W.H. Allen, 1973, £2.50, 293pp, hc, an)     Selection of varied pulp stories, with all but one from Weird Tales. vii · Preface · Kurt Singer · pr 1 · The Devils of Po Sung · Bassett Morgan · nv Weird Tales December 1927 21 · The Green Invasion · Denis Plimmer · ss Weird Tales November 1940 42 · The Shunned House · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales October 1937 68 · Spanish Vampire · E. Hoffmann Price · ss Weird Tales September 1939 83 · The Werewolf of Ponkert [The Master] · H. Warner Munn · nv Weird Tales July 1925 115 · The Music from Infinity · Thorp McClusky · ss Weird Tales September 1941 132 · Clair de Lune [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales November 1947 151 · The Book of the Dead · Frank Gruber · ss Weird Tales November 1941 170 · The Cheaters · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales November 1947 197 · The Dark Star · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales March 1937 227 · The Devil of Maniara · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories February 25 1933 243 · Mr. Hyde—and Seek [Thomas Chadwick] · Malcolm M. Ferguson · ss Weird Tales May 1950 253 · Not According to Dante · Malcolm Jameson · ss Unknown June 1941 269 · Which’s Witch? · Harold Lawlor · ss Weird Tales July 1952 286 · Father’s Vampire · Alvin Taylor & Len J. Moffatt · ss Weird Tales May 1952

The Second Target Book of Horror ed. Kurt Singer (Target, 1984, 0-426-19887-5, £1.60, 144pp, pb, an)     Stories from Weird Tales of the Supernatural (W.H. Allen 1966), Tales from the Unknown (W.H. Allen 1970), Ghouls and Ghosts (W.H. Allen 1972), Satanic Omnibus (W.H. Allen 1973), and They Are Posessed (W.H. Allen 1976). 7 · The Man Who Cried “Wolf!” · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales May 1945 38 · The Nameless Mummy · Arlton Eadie · nv Weird Tales May 1932 56 · The Man They Couldn’t Hang · Judge Marcus Kavanagh · ar Liberty June 27 1931 68 · Legal Rites · Isaac Asimov & James MacCreigh · nv Weird Tales September 1950 101 · The Devil and Sharon Tate · Michael Ballantine · ar (r) 114 · The Exorcist—New York Style · Kurt & Jane Singer · ar (r) 126 · Not According to Dante · Malcolm Jameson · ss Unknown June 1941