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More Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts ed. Helen Hoke (Franklin Watts, 1981, 0-531-04352-5, $8.90, x+130pp, hc, an)     Anthology of ghost stories for young adults. Follow-up to volume by Phyllis Fenner (1952). ix · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 1 · “Where Angels Fear…” · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Unknown March 1939 10 · The Travelling Companion · Elizabeth Walter · ss Come and Get Me by Elizabeth Walter, Harvill Press, 1973 25 · In the Vault · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Tryout November 1925 34 · The Red Lodge · H. R. Wakefield · ss They Return At Evening by H. Russell Wakefield, Phillip Allan, 1928 48 · Unburied Bane · N. Dennett · nv Horrors, Philip Allan, 1933 65 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Magazine April 1912 76 · The House · André Maurois; translated by Jacques Chambrun · vi Harper’s Magazine June 1931 79 · Spinalonga · John Ware · ss The 13th Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1972 90 · Man-Size in Marble · Edith Nesbit · nv Home Chimes December 1887; dated 1886. 104 · The Face · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine February 1924 118 · The Snow · Hugh Walpole · ss The (London) Evening News December 21 1928 128 · Christmas Meeting · Rosemary Timperley · vi Truth 1952

Mysterious, Menacing & Macabre ed. Helen Hoke (Elsevier, 1981, 0-525-66753-9, $11.50, 148pp, hc, an) 1 · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 3 · Side Bet · Will F. Jenkins · ss Collier’s July 31 1937 15 · “Happy Birthday, Dear Alexa” · John Keir Cross · ss Best Tales of Terror 2 ed. Edmund Crispin, Faber and Faber, 1965 35 · The Tombling Day · Ray Bradbury · ss Shenandoah Fall 1952 45 · Head Man · Robert Bloch · ss 15 Mystery Stories June 1950 65 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941 73 · The Shuttered Room · H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth · nv The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces by H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham House, 1959 written by Derleth from a fragment by Lovecraft. 111 · Dark Dream · Elizabeth Fancett · ss The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1975 121 · Two Spinsters [Nicholas Goade] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · nv The Grand Magazine June 1926, as “The Spinsters” 135 · The Way Up to Heaven · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker February 27 1954

Sinister, Strange and Supernatural ed. Helen Hoke (Dutton/Lodestar, 1981, 0-525-66703-2, $10.25, 160pp, hc, an) 13 · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 15 · The Walking Shadow · Jean Stubbs · ss The Sixth Ghost Book ed. Rosemary Timperley, Barrie & Rockliff, 1970 31 · One Grave Too Few · Lady Cynthia Asquith · ss The Second Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1952 52 · Bookworm · John Edgell · ss John Edgell’s Ghosts ed. John Edgell, Wayland, 1970 63 · Forever and the Earth · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Spring 1950 84 · Cool Air · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Tales of Magic and Mystery March 1928 95 · Transition · Algernon Blackwood · ss The New Witness December 11 1913, as “Mudbury’s Xmas Adventure” 103 · Housebound · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Christine Bernard, Fontana, 1968 116 · Contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets · Jack Finney · nv Collier’s October 26 1956 137 · The Warlock · Fritz Leiber · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine February 1960, as “Schizo Jimmie” 150 · The Pipe-Smoker · Martin Armstrong · ss The Fortnightly Review October 1932

Spectres, Spooks & Shuddery Shades ed. Helen Hoke (Franklin Watts, 1977, 191pp, hc, an)     Anthology of horror stories for young adults. Illustrated by Charles Keeping. Same contents as Haunts, Haunts, Haunts. 9 · Close Behind Him · John Wyndham · ss Fantastic January/February 1953 24 · The House Surgeon · Rudyard Kipling · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1909 (+1) 52 · The Helmsman · Franz Kafka; translated by Tania Stern & James Stern · vi (r); dated 1920. 54 · Me and My Shadow · Eric Frank Russell · ss Strange Stories February 1940 73 · The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 88 · The Inn · Guy Preston · ss Grim Death ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, Selwyn & Blount, 1932; given as by A. M. Burrage in the Table of Contents. 104 · The Cloak · Robert Bloch · ss Unknown May 1939 124 · The Soul Cages · T. Crofton Croker · ss Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland: Part II by T. Crofton Croker, John Murray, 1828, uncredited. 140 · The Whistling Room [Thomas Carnacki] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Idler March 1910 160 · The Music of Erich Zann · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The National Amateur March 1922 171 · Deadline · Richard Matheson · ss Rogue December 1959 178 · Don’t Look Behind You · Fredric Brown · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #42, May 1947

Spirits, Spooks, and Other Sinister Creatures ed. Helen Hoke (Franklin Watts, 1984, 0-531-04769-5, £4.99, 136pp, hc, an)     12 stories four younger readers featuring strange and inexplicable phenomena. 3 · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 5 · Not Snow nor Rain · Miriam Allen deFord · ss If November 1959 21 · Lodging for the Night · Joan Aiken · ss Argosy (UK) March 1963 33 · The Bantam Phantom · Lael J. Littke · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1971 41 · Mouse · Fredric Brown · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories June 1949 55 · Only a Dream · H. Rider Haggard · ss Harry Furniss’s Christmas Annual 1905, as “A Wedding Gift” 63 · The Dance of the Thirteen Skeletons · Jack Prelutsky · ss Nightmares by Jack Prelutsky, Greenwillow Books, 1976 67 · Thurnley Abbey · Perceval Landon · ss McClure’s Magazine October 1908 85 · Monkeys · E. F. Benson · ss Weird Tales December 1933 103 · The Wolves of Cernogratz · Saki · ss The Morning Post January 7 1913, as by H. H. Munro 109 · The Monster of Poot Holler · Ida Chittum · ss (r) 115 · A Most Unusual Murder · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1976 131 · The Third Level · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s October 7 1950

Spooks, Spooks, Spooks ed. Helen Hoke (Franklin Watts, 1966, 0-531-01797-4, $3.95, x+213pp, hc, an)     Anthology of ghost stories for young adults. Illustrated by W. R. Lohse. viii · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 1 · The King and the Merman · Thomas D. Leekley · ex King Herla’s Quest by Thomas D. Leekley, Vanguard Press, 1956 11 · The Devil’s Thoughts · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm The Morning Post September 6 1799 13 · Witch Wood · Anna Elizabeth Bennett · ss Story Parade 1948 21 · Mungo · Geoffrey Palmer & Noel Lloyd · ss Ghost Stories Round the World by Geoffrey Palmer & Noel Lloyd, Odhams, 1965 34 · The Hag · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides by Robert Herrick, 1648 36 · The Spooky Thing · William O. Steele · ss The Spooky Thing by William O. Steele, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1960 51 · Jamie’s Ghost Horse · Marion Garthwaite · ss Story Parade 1952 59 · The Burning Ship · M. Jagendorf · ss New England Bean Pot by M. Jagendorf, Vanguard Press, 1948 63 · The Black Thing · Madeleine L’Engle · ex from A Wrinkle in Time, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962 81 · The Battle with the Bogles · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss Heather and Broom by Sorche Nic Leodhas, McIntosh & Otis, 1960 95 · The Ride-by-Nights · Walter de la Mare · pm Peacock Pie by Walter de la Mare, Constable, 1913 97 · The Tinker of Tamlacht and His Bargains with the Devil · Seumas MacManus · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903 112 · The Ghostly Hitchhikers · Maria Leach · ss Rainbow Book of American Folk Tales ed. Maria Leach, World Publishing, 1958 116 · Caleb Thorne’s Day · Elizabeth Coatsworth · ss Too Many Bears and Other Stories ed. B. R. Buckingham, Ginn and Company, 1936 128 · The Ghost Village · Erick Berry · ex from Beckoning Landfall (r) 139 · The Shadow People · Francis Ledwidge · pm Songs of Peace by Francis Ledwidge, Herbert Jenkins, 1917 141 · Sop Doll! · Richard Chase · ss The Jack Tales by Richard Chase, Houghton Mifflin, 1943; revised. 147 · The First Spell · Josephine Lee · ex from Joy Is Not Herself, Harcourt Brace & World, 1962 157 · The Conjure Wives · Frances G. Wickes · ss Happy Holidays by Frances G. Wickes, Rand McNally, 1921 161 · Suppose You Met a Witch · Ian Serraillier · pm Belinda and the Swans by Ian Serraillier, Jonathan Cape, 1952 167 · The Ghosts of the Mohawk · Anna L. Curtis · ss Ghosts of the Mohawk by Anna L. Curtis, Island Press, 1953 175 · The King o’ the Cats · Joseph Jacobs · ss More English Fairy Tales ed. Joseph Jacobs, London, 1894 178 · The Demon at Green Knowe · L. M. Boston · ex from An Enemy at Green Knowe, Harcourt Brace & World, 1964 206 · Witch Girl · Elizabeth Coatsworth · ss Story Parade 1953

Tales of Fear & Frightening Phenomena ed. Helen Hoke (J.M. Dent, 1982, 0-460-06118-6, £5.95, 132pp, hc, an) 1 · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 3 · Love Me, Love Me, Love Me · M. S. Waddell · ss The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1965 13 · The Most Dangerous Game · Richard Connell · nv Collier’s January 19 1924 33 · Return to the Sabbath · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales July 1938 51 · The Amorous Ghost · Enid Bagnold · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 59 · Tarnhelm, or the Death of My Uncle Robert · Hugh Walpole · ss Liberty December 28 1929 77 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 89 · Fear · P. C. Wren · nv Rough Shooting by P. C. Wren, John Murray, 1938 115 · The Whole Town’s Sleeping [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss McCall’s September 1950

Terrors, Terrors, Terrors ed. Helen Hoke (Franklin Watts, 1979, 0-531-04093-3, £4.99, 191pp, hc, an)     Anthology of horror stories for young adults. Illustrated by Bill Prosser. 8 · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 11 · One Foot in the Grave · Dave Grubb · ss Weird Tales May 1948 23 · Sweets to the Sweet · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales March 1947 35 · The Petey Car · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Superhorror ed. Ramsey Campbell, W.H. Allen, 1976 52 · The Horror in the Museum · Hazel Heald (with H. P. Lovecraft) · nv Weird Tales July 1933 90 · Something for Nothing · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Science Fiction June 1954 108 · The Case of James Elmo Freebish · Joseph F. Pumilia · ss Superhorror ed. Ramsey Campbell, W.H. Allen, 1976 119 · The Little House · Elizabeth Walter · nv Dead Woman by Elizabeth Walter, Collins and Harvill Press, 1975 142 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843 155 · The Corner Shop · C. L. Ray · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine September 1926, as by Cynthia Asquith 176 · Waterford Ghost’s Revenge · C. B. Colby · ar Weirdest People in the World by C. B. Colby, Popular Library, 1965 180 · Unreasonable Doubt · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1958

Terrors, Torments and Traumas ed. Helen Hoke (Thomas Nelson US, 1978, 0-8407-6600-9, $6.95, 160pp, hc, an)     Anthology of horror stories for young adults. British edition: NEL 1978. 9 · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 11 · Green Fingers · R. C. Cook · ss The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Christine Bernard, Fontana, 1968 26 · Keeping His Promise · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1906 40 · The Voyage of the Deborah Pratt · Miriam Allen deFord · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1963 49 · Earth to Earth · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955 53 · “Dear Ghost…” · Fielden Hughes · ss The Fourth Ghost Book ed. James Turner, Barrie & Rockliff, 1965 69 · Mrs. Amworth · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine June 1922 83 · On the Brighton Road · Richard Middleton · ss The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton, Unwin, 1912 87 · The CRIB Circuit · Miriam Allen deFord · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1969 104 · Changeling · Ray Bradbury · ss Super Science Stories July 1949 112 · The Man Who Liked Dickens · Evelyn Waugh · ss Cosmopolitan September 1933 124 · Robert · Stanley Ellin · ss Sleuth Mystery Magazine October 1958 139 · The Knock at the Manor Gate · Franz Kafka; translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir · vi The Great Wall of China by Franz Kafka, tr. Willa & Edwin Muir, Martin Secker, 1933 translated from the German (“Der Schlag ans Hoftor”, Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1931). 141 · Message for Margie · Christine Campbell Thomson · ss The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1964 150 · W.S. · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review January 1952

Thrillers, Chillers & Killers ed. Helen Hoke (Elsevier-Nelson, 1979, 0-525-66633-8, $6.95, 192pp, hc, an)     Anthology of horror stories for young adults. Illustrated by Alex Brychta. 9 · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 11 · Dead Call · William F. Nolan · ss Frights ed. Kirby McCauley, St. Martin's, 1976 17 · Christopher Frame · Nancy C. Swoboda · ss (r) 31 · The Huaco of Señor Peréz · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Over the Edge ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1964 53 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931 59 · Evening Primrose · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine by John Collier, Viking, 1941 75 · The Step · E. F. Benson · nv The Windsor Magazine December 1926, as “When Greek Meets Greek” 93 · Shwartz · Harry Turner · ss The 14th Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1973 109 · The Old House in Vauxhall Walk · Mrs. J. H. Riddell · nv Home Christmas 1880 133 · The Emissary · Ray Bradbury · ss Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury, Arkham House, 1947 145 · Various Temptations · William Sansom · ss Cosmopolitan March 1948, as “The Intruder” 167 · The Grammatical Ghost · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Macmillan, 1898; given as by Ella Wilkinson Peattie. 176 · The Patchwork Quilt · August Derleth · ss Over the Edge ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1964 190 · Nightmare in Yellow · Fredric Brown · vi The Dude May 1961

Uncanny Tales of Unearthly & Unexpected Horrors ed. Helen Hoke (Dutton/Lodestar, 1983, 0-525-66919-1, $11.95, xii+126pp, hc, an)     Ten stories of the supernatural and the shocking. xi · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 1 · Terror · Will F. Jenkins · ss The American Magazine August 1946 15 · The Elemental · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv The Elemental by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Fontana, 1974 36 · Jerry Bundler · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Windsor Magazine December 1897 45 · The Crowd · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May 1943 56 · The Inheritance · Simon Pilkington · ss Tandem Horror 2 ed. Richard Davis, Tandem, 1968 75 · The Snail-Watcher · Patricia Highsmith · ss Gamma #3, 1964 83 · Just Married · John Edgell · ss John Edgell’s Ghosts ed. John Edgell, Wayland, 1970 87 · Graduation · Richard Christian Matheson · ss Whispers August 1977 103 · The Triumph of Death · H. Russell Wakefield · nv The Arkham Sampler Autumn 1949 120 · Back for Christmas · John Collier · ss The New Yorker October 7 1939

Venemous Tales of Villainy and Vengeance ed. Helen Hoke (Dutton/Lodestar, November 1984, 0-525-67158-7, $11.95, 127pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 8 horror stories by Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Joan Aiken, and others. xi · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 1 · John Charrington’s Wedding · E. Nesbit · ss Temple Bar September 1891 11 · Skeleton · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales September 1945 31 · Bronze · W. M. Tidmarsh · ss Short Stories Magazine May 1981 45 · As Is · Robert Silverberg · nv Worlds of Fantasy v1 #1, 1968 65 · Smell · Joan Aiken · ss The Windscreen Weepers by Joan Aiken, Gollancz, 1969 77 · The Hungry House · Robert Bloch · nv Imagination April 1951 99 · Did You See the Window-cleaner? · John Edgell · ss John Edgell’s Ghosts ed. John Edgell, Wayland, 1970 107 · The Skylight · Penelope Mortimer · nv Saturday Lunch with the Brownings by Penelope Mortimer, Hutchinson, 1960

Weirdies ed. Helen Hoke (Franklin Watts, 1973, 0-85166-401-6, 242pp, hc, an)     “A Horrifying Concatenation of the Super-sur-real or Almost or Not-quite Real.” Anthology of horror stories for young adults. Illustrated by Charles Keeping. 9 · A Creature Imagined · C. S. Lewis · ex from Perelandra, John Lane, 1943 11 · The Cocoon · John B. L. Goodwin · ss Story #121, September/October 1946 35 · The Hair · A. J. Alan · ss 1926 47 · The Brown Hand · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine May 1899, as “The Story of the Brown Hand” 67 · The Nightmare Lake · H. P. Lovecraft · pm The Vagrant #12, December 1919 70 · Mrs. Manifold · Stephen Grendon · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949 86 · The Ancient Track · H. P. Lovecraft · pm Weird Tales March 1930 88 · The Monster of Baylock · F. H. Lee · ss Folk Tales of All Nations ed. F. H. Lee, Harrap, 1931 94 · Phase Two · John Wyndham · ex from The Kraken Wakes, Ballantine, 1953 109 · The Night Crawlers [Fungi from Yuggoth] · H. P. Lovecraft · pm The Providence Journal March 26 1930, as “Night-Gaunts” 110 · The Howler [Fungi from Yuggoth] · H. P. Lovecraft · pm Driftwind November 1932 112 · A Crossbreed · Franz Kafka; translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir · vi The Great Wall of China by Franz Kafka, tr. Willa & Edwin Muir, Martin Secker, 1933 translated from the German (“Eine Kreuzung”, Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1931). 116 · The Mansions of the Dead · Robert Blair · pm from The Grave, 1743 117 · Hallowe’en in a Suburb · H. P. Lovecraft · pm The National Amateur March 1926, as “In a Suburb” 119 · The Quest for “Blank Claveringi” · Patricia Highsmith · ss The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories by Patricia Highsmith, Doubleday, 1970 revised from “The Snails” (The Saturday Evening Post, June 17, 1967). 138 · Wentworth’s Day · H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth · ss The Survivor and Others by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, Arkham House, 1957 written by Derleth from a fragment by Lovecraft. 153 · The Shark-man Nanaue · E. M. Nakuina · ss (r) 164 · Monster · Edmund Spenser · ex from The Faerie Queen, William Ponsonby, 1590 167 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 192 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. 211 · It · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Unknown August 1940