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Horrifying and Hideous Hauntings ed. Helen & Franklin Hoke (Dutton/Lodestar, May 1986, 0-525-67179-X, $14.95, 116pp, hc, an)     Young-adult anthology of horror tales. ix · About This Book · Helen & Franklin Hoke · in 1986 1 · Fever Dream · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales September 1948 9 · The Man Who Didn’t Believe in Ghosts · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss Ghosts Go Haunting by Sorche Nic Leodhas, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965 16 · Dead Trouble · Aidan Chambers · nv Ghosts 2 ed. Aidan Chambers, Topliners, 1972 34 · The Shepherd’s Dog · Joyce Marsh · ss The Seventh Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1975 48 · Meeting in the Park · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1975 62 · The Cyprian Cat · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Harper’s Bazaar (UK) May 1933 76 · A Haunted Island · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Pall Mall Magazine April 1899 94 · Gay as Cheese · Joan Aiken · ss Argosy (UK) December 1956, as “As Gay as Cheese” 100 · That Hell-Bound Train · Robert Bloch · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1958

Horrors, Horrors, Horrors ed. Helen Hoke (Franklin Watts, 1978, 0-85166-696-5, £3.95, xiii+177pp, hc, an)     Anthology of horror stories for young adults. Illustrated by Bill Prosser. 3 · The Metronome · August W. Derleth · ss Terror by Night ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, Selwyn & Blount, 1934 11 · Drawer 14 · Talmage Powell · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1965 24 · A Sharp Loss of Weight · Norman P. Kaufman · ss The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1969 30 · The Confession of Charles Linkworth · E. F. Benson · ss The Cavalier and the Scrap Book January 13 1912 49 · In a Dim Room [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss The (London) Evening News July 18 1945 55 · Tomorrow’s Child · Joyce Marsh · ss The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1975 63 · The Walking Shadow · Jean Stubbs · ss The Sixth Ghost Book ed. Rosemary Timperley, Barrie & Rockliff, 1970 78 · The Mother Goose Madman · Betty Ren Wright · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1959 89 · Who Knows? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Qui sait?”, L’Echo de Paris, April 6, 1890). 105 · Settlement Out of Court · Fletcher Flora · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1963 117 · The Illustrated Man · Ray Bradbury · ss Esquire July 1950 133 · Man’s Best Friend · Dee Stuart · ss 1971 142 · The Other Celia · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1957 164 · Death Out of Season · Mary Barrett · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1971 172 · The Secret Ones · Mary Danby · ss The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1972

Monsters, Monsters, Monsters ed. Helen Hoke (Franklin Watts, 1977, 0-531-02846-1, $6.90, 187pp, hc, an)     Anthology of horror stories for young adults. Illustrated by Charles Keeping. 8 · About This Book · Helen Hoke · in 11 · Slime · Joseph Payne Brennan · nv Weird Tales March 1953 42 · The Foghorn · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 23 1951, as “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” 53 · Impulse · Eric Frank Russell · ss Astounding Science-Fiction September 1938 69 · Negotium Perambulans · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine November 1922, as “Visible and Invisible” 88 · The Monster of Cakaudrove · A. W. Reed & Inez Hames · ss (r) 94 · The Sphinx · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Arthur’s Ladies’ Magazine January 1846 101 · The Vampires of Tempassuk · Owen Rutter · ss (r) 110 · In the Avu Observatory · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 9 1894 120 · The Water Monster · Jacynth Hope-Simpson · ss 1964 132 · The Horror of the Heights · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine November 1913 153 · Gabriel-Ernest · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 29 1909 164 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s” 177 · The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926

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