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    Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Gulliver Books, 1945, 1/-, pb, an)
        This volume is listed as one of the titles in the series Famous Stories of All Time published by Gulliver Books at the end of the War. It is possible that none of these were published. Other titles include Tales of Adventure, Tales of Mystery, Ghost Stories, The Dream and Other Tales of Romance and The Spider’s Eye and Other Stories.

    Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Ballantine Del Rey, October 1998, 0-345-42204-X, $12.00, 462pp, tp, an, cover by John Jude Palencar)
        Reprint (Arkham House 1989) horror anthology of 22 stories, with introduction by James Turner, significantly revised from the 1969 Arkham House edition edited by August Derleth.

    Tales of the Dead ed. Sarah Utterson, uncredited (White, Cochrane, 1813, viii+248pp, hc, an)
        Translated from the French Fantasmagoria (Paris, 1812) by Mrs Sarah Utterson with the addition of her fragment. The French volume was translated from German sources by J.B.B. Eyriès. The original German source were the first two volumes of an eventual five-volume set, Gespensterbuch (Leipzig, 1811), edited by Friedrich Schulze and Johann Apel. It was this volume that was read by Byron and Shelley whilst on holiday in Switzerland and prompted the ghost-story competition that gave rise to Frankenstein. This volume has recently been reprinted by The Gothic Society, 1992 (ISBN 1-874100-03-9) with a new introduction by Terry Hale.

    Tales of the Uncanny (Reader’s Digest, 1983, 0-89577-151-9, 606pp, hc, oa)
        Although sub-titled “True Stories of the Unexplained” these seven stories are all presented in a fictional narrative format.
    • 7 · Dr. Holmes’s Murder Castle · Robert Bloch · na
    • 87 · Curious Encounter · John G. Fuller · na
    • 163 · The Possession of Sister Jeanne · Norah Lofts · na
    • 259 · The Remarkable Daniel Dunglas Home · Julian Symons · na
    • 335 · The Captain’s Return · David Beaty · na
    • 419 · Strange Affair at Stratford · Barbara Michaels · na
    • 489 · A Novelisation of Events in the Life and Death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin · Colin Wilson · n.

    Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful (Hurst, Robinson, 1825, x+356pp, hc, an)
        An early post-Byronic volume of romantic visions. The anonymous author, who claims this is his first book, calls them “tales of diablerie” and claims that all but one are original, although two are based on nursery tales. Probably translations by the author from national tales. Book has been attributed to George Borrow.

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