Tales of the Occult ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Prometheus, April 1989, 0-87975-506-7, $22.95, 354pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 22 stories of supernatural fiction, each based on an occult subject, plus skeptic comment on each by Asimov, plus further reading lists. Also announced in a trade paperback edition (-531-8, $14.95).
- 7 · The Occult · Isaac Asimov · in
- 11 · Under the Knife · H. G. Wells · ss The New Review #80, January 1896
- 23 · Children of the Zodiac · Rudyard Kipling · ss Black & White November 25 1891
- 37 · The Girl Who Found Things · Henry Slesar · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1973
- 59 · The Emigrant Banshee · Gertrude Henderson · ss Everybody’s Magazine May 1901
- 69 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”
- 81 · Through a Glass, Darkly [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #58, September 1948
- 103 · Dumb Supper · Kris Neville · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Summer 1950, as by Henderson Starke
- 115 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843
- 121 · The House and the Brain · Edward Bulwer-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.
- 143 · The Dead Man’s Hand [John Thunstone] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales November 1944
- 159 · The Scythe · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales July 1943
- 173 · The Great Keinplatz Experiment · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Belgravia July 1885
- 187 · Do You Know Dave Wenzel? · Fritz Leiber · ss Fellowship of the Stars ed. Terry Carr, Simon & Schuster, 1974
- 203 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910
- 209 · Speak to Me of Death [Lieutenant McManus] · Cornell Woolrich · nv Argosy February 27 1937
- 237 · The Woman Who Thought She Could Read · Avram Davidson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1959
- 245 · Tryst in Time · C. L. Moore · nv Astounding Stories December 1936
- 267 · The Blood Seedling · John Hay · ss Lippincott’s Magazine of Literature, Science and Education March 1871
- 285 · The Tracer of Lost Persons and the Seal of Solomon Cypher [Westrel Keen] · Robert W. Chambers · nv The Saturday Evening Post March 31 1906, as “Solomon’s Seal”
- 307 · Miss Esperson · August Derleth · ss Dark Mind, Dark Heart ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1962, as by Stephen Grendon
- 319 · Peeping Tom · Judith Merril · nv Startling Stories Spring 1954
- 339 · The Moving Finger · Edith Wharton · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine March 1901
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