R. Chetwynd-Hayes – Gaslight Tales Of Terror

R. Chetwynd-Hayes (ed.) – Gaslight Tales Of Terror (Fontana, 1976)

Justin Todd

Blurb:
By the eerie flickering of the gas-lamps, in the dim shadows cast by guttering candles, dark creatures lurk in the menacing gloom … and wait to pounce …

The sculptor who sold his soul to the Devil. The wax-work murderess who came to life. Grim death in a Victorian orphanage. Maggoty corpses fresh from the grave. The ghost with the gaping wound.

Introduction – R. Chetwynd-Hayes

Roger Malisson – The Last Victim
Anon – A Tale Of A Gaslight Ghost
Sydney J. Bounds – The Pauper’s Feast
M. R. James – Number 13
Dorothy K. Haynes – Up, Like A Good Girl
J. S. Le Fanu – An Authentic Narrative Of A Haunted House
R. Thurston Hopkins – The Glass Staircase
Rosemary Timperley – The Maid, The Madman And The Knife
Fitz-James O’Brien – What Was It?
James Jauncey – The Veritable Verasco
Harold Lawlor – The Silver Highway
Lady Eleanor Smith – Mrs. Raeburn’s Waxwork
Edmund Mitchell M. A. – The Phantom Of The Lake
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – Keep The Gaslight Burning