Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural ed. Marvin Kaye (SFBC, May 1985, #5144, $6.98, 623pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 53 stories and poems by writers ranging from Bram Stoker and Poe to Walt Whitman and Tennessee Williams, with more recent authors represented as well.
- xiii · Introduction: In Search of Masterpieces · Marvin Kaye · in
- 3 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914
written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length.
- 14 · The Professor’s Teddy Bear · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Weird Tales March 1948
- 24 · Bubnoff and the Devil · Ivan Turgenev; adapted by Marvin Kaye · ss Fiends and Creatures ed. Marvin Kaye, Popular Library, 1975
- 31 · 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).
- 44 · The Erl-King · Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; translated by Marvin Kaye · pm
- 46 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 (+3)
- 71 · A Malady of Magicks [Ebenezum & Wuntvor] · Craig Shaw Gardner · ss Fantastic Stories October 1978
- 86 · Lan Lung · M. Lucie Chin · nv The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 7 ed. Arthur W. Saha, DAW, 1981
previously published in an abbreviated form as “Dragon…Ghost” (Ares #1, March 1980).
- 106 · The Dragon Over Hackensack · Richard L. Wexelblat · pm
- 107 · The Transformation · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1831, 1830
- 122 · The Faceless Thing · Edward D. Hoch · ss Magazine of Horror and Strange Stories November 1963
- 129 · The Anchor · Jack Snow · ss Dark Music and Other Spectral Tales by Jack Snow, Herald, 1947
- 134 · When the Clock Strikes · Tanith Lee · ss Weird Tales #1 ed. Lin Carter, Zebra, 1981
- 149 · Oshidori · Lafcadio Hearn · vi Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904
- 151 · Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · na The Dark Blue December 1871 (+3)
- 214 · Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory · Orson Scott Card · nv Chrysalis 4 ed. Roy Torgeson, Zebra, 1979
- 229 · Lenore · Gottfried August Bürger; translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti · pm (r)
translated from the German (“Lenore”, Göttinger Musenalmanach, 1774).
- 237 · The Black Wedding · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Martha Glicklich · ss The Spinoza of Market Street by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1958
- 245 · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849
- 254 · Sardonicus · Ray Russell · nv Playboy January 1961
- 286 · Graveyard Shift · Richard Matheson · ss Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1, 1960, as “The Faces”
- 291 · Wake Not the Dead · Johann Ludwig Tieck (error, actually by Ernst Raupach) · nv Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, Vol. 1, Simpkin, Marshall, 1823, uncredited.
translated from the German (“Lasst die Todten Ruhen: Ein Mährchen”, Minerva: Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1823, Leipzig, 1822).
- 314 · Night and Silence · Maurice Level; translated by Alys Eyre Macklin · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine January 1922
translated from the French (“La Nuit et le Silence”, Le Journal 1906).
- 321 · Flies · Isaac Asimov · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1953
- 328 · The Night Wire · H. F. Arnold · ss Weird Tales September 1926
- 335 · Last Respects · Dick Baldwin · ss Brother Theodore’s Chamber of Horrors ed. Marvin Kaye & Brother Theodore, Pinnacle, 1975
- 340 · The Pool of the Stone God · A. Merritt · ss The American Weekly September 23 1923, as by W. Fenimore
- 344 · A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor · Ogden Nash · pm The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1955
- 348 · The Tree · Dylan Thomas · ss Adelphi December 1934
- 355 · Stroke of Mercy · Parke Godwin · nv Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine September 1981
- 374 · Lazarus · Leonid Andreyev · ss Current Literature May 1907
translated from the Russian (“Eleazar”, 1906).
- 393 · The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X
- 404 · The Silent Couple · Pierre Courtois; translated by Faith Lancereau & Marvin Kaye · ss
translated from the French (“La maison du silence”, Le Figaro Illustre, 1826).
- 408 · Moon-Face · Jack London · ss The Argonaut July 21 1902
- 413 · Death in the School-Room (A Fact) · Walt Whitman · ss 1841
- 419 · The Upturned Face · Stephen Crane · ss Ainslee’s Magazine March 1900
- 423 · One Summer Night · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine March 1906
- 425 · The Easter Egg · H. H. Munro · ss The Westminster Gazette April 15 1911, as by Saki
- 429 · The House in Goblin Wood [Sir Henry Merrivale] · John Dickson Carr · nv The Strand Magazine November 1947
- 448 · The Vengeance of Nitocris · Tennessee Williams · ss Weird Tales August 1928, as by Thomas Lanier Williams
- 459 · The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew · Damon Runyon · ss Adventure March 1911
- 472 · His Unconquerable Enemy · W. C. Morrow · ss The Argonaut March 11 1889, as “The Rajah’s Nemesis”
- 481 · Rizpah · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · pm Ballads and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson, C. Kegan Paul, 1880
- 486 · The Question · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1962, as “The Question My Son Asked”
- 497 · The Flayed Hand · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“La Main d’écorché”, L’Almanach lorrain de Pont-à-Mousson, 1875 as by Joseph Prunier).
- 502 · The Hospice · Robert Aickman · nv Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman, Scribner's, 1975
- 533 · The Christmas Banquet · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1843
- 549 · The Hungry House · Robert Bloch · nv Imagination April 1951
- 566 · The Demon of the Gibbet · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Home Journal October 18 1856, as “What Befell”
- 568 · The Owl · Anatole Le Braz; translated by Faith Lancereau · ss (r)
- 575 · No. 252 Rue M. le Prince · Ralph Adams Cram · ss Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, Stone & Kimball, 1895
- 588 · The Music of Erich Zann · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The National Amateur March 1922
- 596 · Riddles in the Dark (Original Version) · J. R. R. Tolkien · ex from The Hobbit, Allen & Unwin, 1937
- 609 · Afterword: Is Terror a Dying Art? · Marvin Kaye · aw
- 615 · Miscellaneous Notes · Marvin Kaye · bi
- 619 · Selected Bibliography · Marvin Kaye · bi
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