The Mandrake Root ed. Jeremy Scott (Jarrolds, 1946, 12/6d, 224pp, hc, an)
First of a series of anthologies selecting stories from the whole range of the fantastic spectrum.
- 8 · Introduction · Jeremy Scott · in
- 11 · Everlasting Fire · James Joyce · ex from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1914
- 13 · The Man Who Was Milligan · Algernon Blackwood · ss Pearson’s Magazine November 1923
- 19 · The Stranger · Richard Hughes · ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette May 26 1923
- 23 · Changeling · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss Modern Reading #8,
- 29 · The Last Laugh · D. H. Lawrence · ss The New Decameron IV, Blackwell, 1925
- 39 · The Leech of Folkestone · Thomas Ingoldsby · nv Bentley’s Miscellany July 1837, as by Richard Harris Barham
- 54 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited.; original version.
- 75 · The Wrinkled Woman of St. Nepomuk · Fred Marnau · ss
- 79 · Pickle My Bones · Arthur Calder-Marshall · ss New Stories (UK) December 1935/January 1936
- 83 · The Lemmings · Alex Comfort · ss (r)
- 87 · Confessions of an English Opium-Eater · Thomas De Quincey · ex Taylor & Hessey, 1822
- 89 · 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).
- 97 · The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection · Virginia Woolf · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1929
- 100 · The Peach-House-Potting-Shed · William Sansom · ss Fireman Flower by William Sansom, Hogarth Press, 1944
- 106 · The White House · Wrey Gardiner · ss
- 108 · Who Knocks at the Door · Olive Schreiner · vi Stories, Dreams and Allegories by Olive Schreiner, T. Fisher Unwin, 1923
- 110 · An Air-Raid Seen from Above · Stella Benson · ss Living Alone by Stella Benson, Macmillan, 1919
- 116 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911
- 118 · The Bell of Saint Euschemon · Richard Garnett · ss The Twilight of the Gods by Richard Garnett, Unwin, 1888
- 124 · The Story of a Panic · E. M. Forster · nv Independent Review March 1904
- 137 · “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904
- 148 · No Room · T. F. Powys · ss The New Leader April 24 1925
- 150 · Altarwise by Owl-Light · Pamela Hansford Johnson · ss The English Review June 1937
- 157 · Winter · Walter de la Mare · ss Ding Dong Bell by Walter de la Mare, Selwyn & Blount Ltd., 1924
- 163 · The Familiar [Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · nv In a Glass Darkly by J. S. Le Fanu, R. Bentley & Son, 1872
revised from “The Watcher”, Dublin University Magazine, November 1847.
- 185 · Mr. Hopkins and Galatea · James Laver · nv The Editor Regrets… ed. George Joseph, Michael Joseph, 1937
- 195 · The Diary of William Carpenter · John Atkins · ex Resurgam Books, 1943
- 204 · The Greeting · Sir Osbert Sitwell · nv Triple Fugue by Osbert Sitwell, 1925
- 221 · A Selective Bibliography for the Enthusiast · [uncredited] · bi
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