ppint. ● 19th Feb 2023
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°the werewolf (short story) frederick marryat, ch.39 of ''the phantom ship'' serialised in new monthly magazine 1837, first published in book format 1839
ligeia (ss) edgar allen poe, the american museum of science, literature and the arts 9/1838
°the black cat (ss) edgar allen poe, united states saturday post 19/8/1843
young goodman brown (ss) nathaniel hawthorne, new england magazine 4/1835
schalken the painter (novelette) j. sheridan le fanu, dublin university magazine 5/1839 as ''strange event in the life of schalken the painter'', revised 1851, reorinted 1880)
°the damned thing (ss) ambrose bierce, town topics 17/12/1893, reprinted s. f. examiner 13/9/1896)
the middle toe of the right foot (ss) ambrose bierce, san francisco examiner 17/8!1893
the squaw (ss) bram stoker, holly leaves 2/12/1893
°who knows? (ss) guy de maupassant (translation of ''qui sait?'' (l'echo de paris 6/4/1890))
the drowned man (ss) guy de maupassant (translation of ''le noyé'' (le gaulois 16/8/1888))
°the caterpillar (ss) edogawa rampo (usual pseudonym of tarō hirai) (translation of imomushi 1929)
the hell of mirrors (ss) edogawa rampo (translation of kagami-jigoku 1926)
°the knocking in the castle (ntte) henry slesar, fantastic vol.13 #11, 11/1964
the fanatic (ss) arthur porges, fantastic vol.13 #12, 12/1964
n.b. the contents of the sidgwick & jackson 1974 h/cvr edition were a major revision, effectively a new anthology, dropping some six stories°, reordering the remainder and interspersing seven others as replacements:
the sandman (ntte) e.t.a. hoffmann (translation of der sandman 1816)
oh, whistle and i'll come to you, my lad (ntte) m. r. james, 1904
the old man of visions (ss) algernon blackwood, 1907
the nameless city (ss) h. p. lovecraft, 1921
that hellbound train (ss) robert bloch, 1958
the emissary (ss) ray bradbury, 1947
dense macabre (ss) melvyn peake, 1963
its title should be differentiated when it is added, or bookcat will automagically assume they're identical. |