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Editor:	Herbert Van Thal
Title:	The Fourth Pan Book Of Horror Stories
Publisher:	Pan
Country:	UK
Date:	1963
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Horror
Cat#:	X261
Total Editions:	2
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David Whiteley 9th Nov 2021		Added contents page and back cover. Most stories are reprints. See list for details. others first published here. "Various Temptations", short story by William Sansom. First published in "Penguin New Writing, no. 31", 1947. "The Pale Boy", short story by Martin Waddell as by M. S. Waddell. "The Emissary", short story by Ray Bradbury. First published in "Dark Carnival" (1947). "Lucy Comes to Stay", short story by Robert Bloch. First published in Weird Tales, Vol. 44, No. 2. January 1952. "Guy Fawkes Night", novelette by Richard Davis. "The Two Old Women", short story by Vivian Meik. First published in "Monsters: A Collection of Uneasy Tales". (1934). "Moonlight Sonata", short story by Alexander Woollcott. First published in The New Yorker, October 3, 1931. "The Little Girl Eater", short story by Septimus Dale. "Harry", short story by Rosemary Timperley. First published in "The Third Ghost Book". (1955). "Sardonicus", novelette by Ray Russell. "Sardonicus and Other Stories". (1961). "Ringing the Changes", novelette by Robert Aickman. First published in "The Third Ghost Book". (1955). "Dulcie", short story by Hugh Reid. "The Importance of Remaining Ernest", short story by Martin Waddell as by M. S. Waddell. "Slime", novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan. First published in Weird Tales, Vol. 45, No. 1. March 1953. "The Ohio Love Sculpture", short story by Adobe James. First published in Escapade, Vol 8 No.4 June 1963. "The Horsehair Trunk", short story by Davis Grubb. First published in Collier's, May 25, 1946. "The Attic Express", short story by Alex Hamilton. "The Haunted Telephone", short story by Elliott O'Donnell. First published in "Monsters: A Collection of Uneasy Tales". (1934). "The Elephant Man", essay by Sir Frederick Treves. First published in "The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences". (1923).



ppint. 22nd May 2019		pan books first printing, first edition and possibly early near-identical reprintings mainly reprint anthology of a nf article and fourteen, or fifteen short stories, and four novelettes cover art by w. francis phillipps (signed) cover price 3'6, 5'6 australia, 85c canadada 256pp? including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc. at least one reprint of this edition in 1965; on the rear cover of one of these, the originally printed australian price has been overprinted with a black square and, a little higher up, the new price of 6/-, the 85¢ canada remaining unaltered. and there were at least two further reprints bearing an (i)sbn (0-) 330-10261-3 that incorporates the original cat#, new uncredited cover art, and cover prices 5/- and later 30p. #1: ''the pan book of horror stories'' ed. herbert van thal (1959), q.v. for series listing, and links.



David Whiteley 9th Nov 2021		Added contents page. Most stories are reprints. See list for details. others first published here. "Various Temptations", short story by William Sansom. First published in "Penguin New Writing, no. 31", 1947. "The Pale Boy", short story by Martin Waddell as by M. S. Waddell. "The Emissary", short story by Ray Bradbury. First published in "Dark Carnival" (1947). "Lucy Comes to Stay", short story by Robert Bloch. First published in Weird Tales, Vol. 44, No. 2. January 1952. "Guy Fawkes Night", novelette by Richard Davis. "The Two Old Women", short story by Vivian Meik. First published in "Monsters: A Collection of Uneasy Tales". (1934). "Moonlight Sonata", short story by Alexander Woollcott. First published in The New Yorker, October 3, 1931. "The Little Girl Eater", short story by Septimus Dale. "Harry", short story by Rosemary Timperley. First published in "The Third Ghost Book". (1955). "Sardonicus", novelette by Ray Russell. "Sardonicus and Other Stories". (1961). "Ringing the Changes", novelette by Robert Aickman. First published in "The Third Ghost Book". (1955). "Dulcie", short story by Hugh Reid. "The Importance of Remaining Ernest", short story by Martin Waddell as by M. S. Waddell. "Slime", novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan. First published in Weird Tales, Vol. 45, No. 1. March 1953. "The Ohio Love Sculpture", short story by Adobe James. First published in Escapade, Vol 8 No.4 June 1963. "The Horsehair Trunk", short story by Davis Grubb. First published in Collier's, May 25, 1946. "The Attic Express", short story by Alex Hamilton. "The Haunted Telephone", short story by Elliott O'Donnell. First published in "Monsters: A Collection of Uneasy Tales". (1934). "The Elephant Man", essay by Sir Frederick Treves. First published in "The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences". (1923). (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 5th Nov 2018		there were thirty pan books of horror stories published from 1959 through 1989; the first twenty-five were edited by herbert van thal, the last five were edited by clarence paget, q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Dec 2017		author should^W be^W is now given as "herbert van thal" as bookcat regards anthologies' editors as authors of the anthology edit: at some point advice was changed to send in variation of author field to "editor" as a correction. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Herbert Van Thal - The Fourth Pan Book Of Horror Stories - Pan - Paperback - UK (1965)