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Editor:Kurt Singer
Title:The Oblong Box
Subtitle:& Other Tales Of The Uncanny
Publisher:  Sphere
Country:UK
Date:1970
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:0722178530
Cat#:78530
First Published:  1968
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ppint.
12th Mar 2022
 sphere books first p/b printing, first thus

cover art unsigned, uncredited photographic composition
cover price 5/-
160pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp.

unsurprisingly, the other half of ''tales of the uncanny'' ed. kurt singer (1968), q.v.
the other other half being uk p/b-ed by sphere books as
''the plague of the living dead & more tales of the uncanny'' (1970), q.v.

derivative reprint anthology of two novelettes and five short stories

contents:

almost immortal (novelette) austin hall (all-story weekly vol.63 #2, 7/10/1916)
the leaden ring (short story) from ''a book of ghosts'' s. (sabine) baring-gould (1904)
the oblong box (ss) edgar allen poe (godey's lady's book 9/1844)
the ghostly rental (ntte) henry james (scribner's monthly 9/1876)
dr. heidegger's experiment (ss) nathaniel hawthorne (as ''the fountain of youth'' knickerbocker magazine 1/1837)
lazarus (ss) leonid andreev (andreeff) (''eleazar'' (but in cyrillic)1906; english translation weird tales vol. ix #3, 3/1927)
the voice (ss) nell kay (1928) (first publication not yet traced, likely an issue of ghost stories; reprinted in the acme/health knowledge magazine of horror vol.4 #2 (#20), 3/1968 - pp.)
 


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