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Alan Ryan – Halloween Horrors

Posted by demonik on June 3, 2009

Alan Ryan (ed.) – Halloween Horrors (Sphere, 1988)


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Alan Ryan – Introduction: Halloween Night

Robert R. McCammon – He’ll Come Knocking At Your Door
Charles L. Grant – Eyes
Whitley Streiber – The Nixon Mask
Peter Tremayne – The Samhain Feis
Steve Rasnic Tem – Trickster
Michael McDowell – Miss Mack
Guy N. Smith – Hollow Eyes
Alan Ryan – The Halloween House
Craig Shaw Gardner – Three Faces Of The Night
Bill pronzini – Pumpkin
Frank Belknap Long – Love In The Wildwood
Ramsey Campbell – Apples
Robert Bloch – Pranks

Blurb:

Hallowe’en– a time for pumpkin lanterns and trick or treat, for hot spiced drinks and party laughter. For some. But not for all. For those lonely souls Hallowe’en is a night of necromancy and bone-chilling fear, when the wild October wind cannot quite mask the high, keening scream of terror, when the ancient evils arise once more from the underworld to lure the unwary to their dark and terrible deaths…

See also Vault’s Halloween Horrors thread.

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Peter Haining – More Weird Tales

Posted by demonik on June 1, 2009

Peter Haining  (ed.) – More Weird Tales (Sphere, 1978)

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Manly Wade Wellman – The Valley Was Still
Ken Gary – A Weird Prophecy
Ray Bradbury – Bang! You’re Dead!
Robert Bloch – The Beasts of Barsac
The Eyrie – Readers’ Letters
Nictzin Dyalhis – The Heart of Atlantan
Fritz Leiber – The Phantom Slayer
Caroline Evans – San Francisco
Alice Olsen – Winter Night

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Robert Bloch – The Living Demons

Posted by demonik on August 4, 2007

Robert Bloch – The Living Demons (Sphere, 1970)

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Life In Our Time
The Indian Spirit Guide
Lucy Comes To Stay
The Plot Is The Thing
Underground
The Beasts Of Barsac
Philtre Tip
The Unspeakable Betrothal
Black Bargain
The Girl From Mars
Beauty’s Beast
Tell Your Fortune

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Ray Bradbury & Robert Bloch – Fever Dream

Posted by demonik on August 4, 2007

Ray Bradbury & Robert Bloch – Fever Dream & Other Fantasies (ed. Kurt Singer) (Sphere, 1970)

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The Shadow From The Steeple
The Grinning Ghoul
Mannikins Of Horror
The Druidic Doom
A Question Of Etiquette
The Man Who Cried Wolf!.

Ray Bradbury

The Watchers
Fever Dream
The Dead Man
The Handler

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Robert Bloch – Tales In A Jugular Vein

Posted by demonik on August 4, 2007

Robert Bloch – Tales In A Jugular Vein (Sphere, 1970)

Sabbatical
Double-Cross
The Past Master
Terror Over Hollywood
A Home Away From Home
Rhyme Never Pays
Night School
Pin-Up Girl
Founding Fathers
The Deadliest Art.

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