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Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror
| Author: | John Gregory Betancourt Robert Weinberg |
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Barnes & Noble Books, 1997 |
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| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
A collection of some of the best selections from all of the various incarnations of Weird Tales. There are four yarns from each decade, starting from the 1920's and up to the 1990's.
Contents:
xv • Introduction (Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror) • essay by John Gregory Betancourt and Robert Weinberg
3 • The Fireplace • (1925) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
19 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
41 • Bells of Oceana • (1927) • short story by Arthur J. Burks
55 • The Eighth Green Man • (1928) • short story by G. G. Pendarves
77 • The Seed from the Sepulcher • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
91 • The Accursed Isle • (1933) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
105 • The Graveyard Rats • (1936) • short story by Henry Kuttner
113 • Lost Paradise • [Northwest Smith] • (1936) • novelette by C. L. Moore
143 • The Hound • (1942) • short story by Fritz Leiber
161 • The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
177 • Pacific 421 • (1944) • short story by August Derleth
189 • The Dead Man's Hand • [John Thunstone] • (1944) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
213 • The Three Pools and the Painted Moon • (1950) • short story by Frank Owen
221 • The Ring of Bastet • [Jules de Grandin] • (1951) • short story by Seabury Quinn
241 • Lucy Comes to Stay • (1952) • short story by Robert Bloch
249 • The Rhythm of the Rats • (1950) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
269 • Sea Curse • [Faring Town] • (1928) • short story by Robert E. Howard
277 • The Dead Smile • (1899) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
301 • Lethal Labels • (1974) • short fiction by Ray Russell
307 • The Finding of the Graiken • [Sargasso Sea] • (1913) • novelette by William Hope Hodgson
333 • The Dead Man • (1965) • short story by Gene Wolfe
339 • The Pit-Yakker • non-genre • (1989) • short story by Brian Lumley
361 • Save the Children! • (1983) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
367 • Love Song from the Stars • (1989) • short story by Robert Sheckley
377 • Welcomeland • (1988) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
391 • The Lily Garden • (1992) • short story by Tanith Lee
405 • The Pulse of the Machine • (1993) • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
431 • Turn, Turn, Turn • (1991) • short story by Nancy Springer
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