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Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book

demonik — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:17:46 +0000

Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book: A Collection of Stories made by Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax (Fontana 1962, 1968, 1973: originally Geoffrey Bles, 1936)

Lord Halifax Ghost Book, 1973 (?)

Introduction – The Earl Of Halifax

The Harper of Inverary
The Man in the Iron Cage
The Secret of Glamis
The Grey Man of Wrotham
The Haunting of Hinton Ampner
The Death of Lord Tyrone
The Passenger with the Bag
‘Marche!’
The Man in a Silk Dress
The Strange Experience of the Reverend Spencer Nairne
The Renishaw Coffin
The Butler in the Corridor
The Telephone at the Oratory
Haunted Rooms – The Strangling Woman
‘Here I Am Again!’
Head of a Child
The Woman in White
The Corpse Downstairs
The Murderer’s Dream
The Mad Butler
Lady Goring’s Dream
The Sexton of Chilton Polden
The Last Appearance of Mr. Bullock
The Corpse that Rose
The Footsteps at Haverholme Priory
‘I will pay you all to-morrow’
The Haunted Bungalow
The Monk of Bolton Abbey
The Gentleman with the Latch-Key
The Bordeaux Diligence
The Appearance of Mr. Birkbeck
The Vampire Cat
Lord Lytton and a Horoscope
Colonel P.’s Ghost Story”
Shrieks in the West Room at Flesbury
The Shrouded Watcher
The Ghostly Passenger
The Fawn Lady of Burton Agnes
The Ghost of Lord Conyers Osborne
The Ghost of Lady Carnarvon
The Ghost of Bishop Wilberforce
The Ship in Distress
The Widow in the Train
Killed in Action
The Troubled Spirit of Tintern Abbey
Labédoyère’s Doom
Exorcism at St. Donat’s Castle
What the Gardener Saw
Three in a Bed
The Simla Bungalow
The Cardinal of Waverley Abbey
‘Someone by his Side’
Bishop King’s Escape
Two Friends
The Spanish Knife
‘Turn to the Right!’
President Lincoln’s Dream
John Arthington’s Escape
Two Submarines
The Fighting Rooks and the Black Mouse
Lord Decies’ Ring
The Death of Lord Hastings
The Rustling Lady of Lincoln
The Bloody Hand
The ‘Tweenie’
Waiting for a Submarine’
The Restless Dead
The Countess of Belvedere

1961 edition

Tom Cullen – Life & Crimes Of Jack The Ripper

demonik — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:30:04 +0000

Tom Cullen – The Life And Crimes Of Jack The Ripper (Fontana, 1973)

The cover shows Chris Fenwick as John Richardson in the first episode of the BBC television series Jack The Ripper. The episode was directed by Leonard Lewis and the series produced by Paul Bonner and Leonard Lewis. Photograph by Jeremy Grayson.

Anne River Siddons – The House Next Door

demonik — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:41:18 +0000

Anne River Siddons – The House Next Door (Fontana, 1979)

It is for sale. Pray that no one ever buys it again.

It was an architectural masterpiece – every young couple’s dream house.

Suddenly, within it and everywhere around it, families began to suffer, to go mad … to die.

And then the family next door knew that their turn was next, that the house could not let them live, and that to survive they must enter and destroy.

Bernard Taylor – Sweetheart, Sweetheart

demonik — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:41:01 +0000

Bernard Taylor – Sweetheart, Sweetheart (Fontana, 1978)

Cover photography by Chris Yates

The rose-covered cottage was a picture of serenity.David immediately felt welcome there – warm, relaxed, enveloped in comforting peace – almost as if it had a will of its own.

So peaceful was it that it was easy to forget what had gone before:
Bronwen Temple found dead with a broken skull …
Margaret Lane, newly-wedded, and burned to death in the summer house … David’s own sister-in-law, Helen, killed by a tragic fall from the roof …

No, the cottage was perfect. All it needed was a woman in it again.

Then David’s fiance Shelagh came to stay from America …

Bernard Taylor – The Godsend

demonik — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:53:03 +0000

Bernard Taylor – The Godsend (Fontana, 1977)

Cover photograph by Chris Yeats

Bonnie…

The Marlowes took the beautiful, abandoned baby to their hearts. And when their own new baby died golden-haired, blue-eyed little Bonnie was a godsend, a comfort in their grief, a wonderful new sister for their three happy children.

Then the next child died …..

J. J. Strating – European Tales Of Terror

demonik — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:52:28 +0000

J. J. Strating (ed.) – European Tales Of Terror (Fontana, 1968)

Introduction – J. J. Strating

Marie Luise Kachnitz – Ghosts
Knut Hamsun – An Apparition
Guy de Maupassant – Who Knows?
Julio Cortazar – The Idol Of The Cyclades
Josef Nesvadba – Vampires Ltd.
Honore de Balzac – The Executioner
Franz Kafka – In The Penal Settlement
Arthur Schnitzler – The Fate Of The Baron
Dino Buzzati – Just The Very Thing They wanted
Valentin – Katayev – Our Father Who Art in Heaven
Belcampo – The Great Happening

About The Authors.

J. J. Strating – Sea Tales Of Terror

demonik — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:50:02 +0000

J. J. Strating (ed) – Sea Tales Of Terror (Fontana, 1974)

Introduction – J. J. Strating

Edgar Allan Poe – A Descent Into The MaelstromGhosts
L. Ron Hubbard – The Devil’s Rescue
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Captain Of The “Polestar”
Vincente Blasco Ibanez – Man Overboard!
Hammond Innes – South sea Bubble
Charles D. Pollexfen – Stowaway
James Hanley – Fog
Bill Adams – Posted Missing
Tom Hopkinson – I Have Been Drowned
William Hauff – The Story Of The Haunted Ship
H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth – The Fisherman Of Falcoln Point
Elinor Mordaunt – The Recall
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – Markland The Hunter
Jose Maria Gironella – The Death Of The Sea

About The Authors.

J. J. Strating – Oriental Tales Of Terror

demonik — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:47:38 +0000

J. J. Strating (ed.) – Oriental Tales Of Terror (Fontana, 1971)

Introduction – J. J. Strating

W. Somerset Maugham – The Taipan
Rudyard Kipling – The Mark Of The Beast
A. B. Mitford – The Forty-Seven Ronins
Psu Sung-Ling – The Magistrate Of Hu-Nan
Psu Sung-Ling – The Inn At Ts’ia-Tien
Akutagawa Ryunosuke – Hell Screen
Feng Meng-Lung – The Canary Murderers
Tom Kristensen – The Vanished Faces
August Derleth – The Adventure Of The Intarsia Box
John D. Keefauver – Kali
Manuel Komroff – Siamese Hands
Francis King – The Puppets
Lafcadio Hearn – The Story Of Ming-y
Kushwant Singh – Death Comes To Daulat Ram
Kathleen Wallace – The Head
Edogawa Rampa – The Hell Of Mirrors
Algernon Blackwood – The Man Who Was Milligan

About The Authors.

Jim McGarry – Irish Tales Of Terror

demonik — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:44:44 +0000

Jim McGarry (ed.) – Irish Tales Of Terror (Fontana, 1971)

Introduction – Jim McGarry

James Reynolds – The Weeping Wall
Sean O’Casey – The Raid
Patrick Bardan – The Warning
Jim McGarry – The Clonmel Witch Burning
Shane Leslie – The Diplomatist’s Story
W. B. Yeats – The Sorcerers
James Reynolds – The Headless Rider Of Castle Sheela
J. S. Le Fanu – The Dream
William Carleton – Wildgoose Lodge
Jim McGarry – The Island Magee Terror
Charles Maturin – Melmoth The Wanderer [extract]

Mary Danby – Fontana Horror 13

demonik — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:41:54 +0000

Mary Danby (ed.) – The 13th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories (Fontana, 1980)

“Twelve tales of shuddering fear…”

David Langford – Cold Spell
Guy De Maupassant – Vendetta
Sydney J. Bounds – The Circus
William Charlton – Undesirable Guests
Anthony Burgess – An American Organ
Ken Alden – The Warrior’s Return
William Wood – One Of The Dead
Barbara Joan Eyre – Anaesthetic
Frederick Marryat – The Werewolf
Nyki Blatchly – Safe As Houses
H. P. Lovecraft – Herbert West – Reanimator
Mary Danby – Woodman’s Knot