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| ppint. 24th Nov 2021 | links from the series listing on this page completed (and checked) today; links from the books back here yet to be done, prob'ly starting tomorrow... #30->#21 done (yesterday evening was yr hmbl srppnt. getting replacement (& smaller) tv sorted out, then discovering i'd forgotten how i'd set up a chromecast - on the only previous occasion i'd needed to - eventually..: this earlyi(ish) morning was rediscovering how i'd managed to, by a strictly empirical approach to the unhelpful destructions and carefully hidden-away nested on-tablettything google home app drop-down menued, non-optionalised, non-heuristic, *decidedly* non-intuitively-designed decision-treed, not-quite random ''broadcast'' scatter-sewn possibilities....) #20->#2 done... and all checked. . . - <fx::>huffff!</fx>. bored now. | |
| David Whiteley 13th Nov 2021 | Added contents page and back cover. Most stories are reprints. See list for details. others first published here. "Jugged Hare", short story by Joan Aiken. "Submerged", short story by A. L. Barker. "Innocents" (1947). "His Beautiful Hands", short story by Oscar Cook. "At Dead of Night". (1931), (book 7 of the Not at Night series). "The Copper Bowl", short story by George Fielding Eliot. Weird Tales,Vol XII, No. 6 December 1928. "Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets", short story by Jack Finney. Collier's, vol 138 No. 9, October 26, 1956. "The Kill", short story by Peter Fleming. "Creeps by Night". (1931). "The Physiology of Fear", short story by C. S. Forester. "The Nightmare". (1954). "W. S.", short story by L. P. Hartley. World Review January 1952. "The Horror in the Museum", novelette by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft, as by Hazel Heald. Weird Tales, Vol 22, No. 1. July 1933. "The Library". short story by Hester Gaskell Holland, as by Hester Holland. "Keep on the Light". (1933), (book 9 of the Not at Night series). "The Mistake", short story by Fielden Hughes. "Oh, Mirror, Mirror", short story by Nigel Kneale. "Tomato Cain and Other Stories". (1949). "Serenade for Baboons", short story by Noel Langley. "My Grimmest Nightmare". (1935). "The Lady Who Didn't Waste Words", short story by Hamilton Macallister. "A Fragment of Fact", short story by Chris Massie. World Review, No. 24. February 1951. "The House of Horror", novelette by Seabury Quinn. Weird Tales, Vol VIII, No. 1. July 1926. "Behind the Yellow Door", short story by Christine Campbell Thomson as by Flavia Richardson. "Terror by Night" (1934), (book 10 of the Not at Night series). "The Portobello Road", novelette by Muriel Spark. "Winter's Tales 2". (1956). "The Squaw", short story by Bram Stoker. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (Christmas annual Holly Leaves edition), December 2, 1893. "Flies". short story by Anthony Vercoe. "Grim Death". (1932). (book 8 of the Not at Night series). "Raspberry Jam", short story by Angus Wilson. "The Wrong Set and Other Stories". (1949). "Nightmare", short story by Alan Wykes. | |
| ppint. 1st Jul 2020 | so popular that it spawned a horrific, loathsome lineage lasting thirty generations of mostly mixed original and reprint anthologies: selected (i.e. edited) by herbert van thal: #1: "the pan book of horror stories" (1959) (this book) #2: "the second pan book of horror stories" (1960), q.v. #3: "the third pan book of horror stories" (1962), q.v. #4: "the fourth pan book of horror stories" (1963), q.v. #5: "the fifth pan book of horror stories" (1964), q.v. #6: "the sixth pan book of horror stories" (1965), q.v. #7: "the seventh pan book of horror stories" (1966), q.v. #8: "the eighth pan book of horror stories" (1967), q.v. #9: "the ninth pan book of horror stories" (1968), q.v.; exceptionally, this is a wholly original anthology #10: "the tenth pan book of horror stories" (1969), q.v. #11: "the eleventh pan book of horror stories" (1970), q.v. #12: "the twelfth pan book of horror stories" (1971), q.v. #13: "the 13th pan book of horror stories" (1972), q.v. #14: "the 14th pan book of horror stories" (1973), q.v. #15: "the 15th pan book of horror stories" (1974), q.v. #16: "the 16th pan book of horror stories" (1975), q.v. #17: "the 17th pan book of horror stories" (1976), q.v. #18: "the 18th pan book of horror stories" (1977), q.v. #19: "the 19th pan book of horror stories" (1978), q.v. #20: "the 20th pan book of horror stories" (1979), q.v. #21: "the 21st pan book of horror stories" (1980), q.v. #22: "the 22nd pan book of horror stories" (1981), q.v. #23: "the 23rd pan book of horror stories" (1982), q.v. #24: "the 24th pan book of horror stories" (1983), q.v. #25: "the 25th pan book of horror stories" (1984), q.v. selected (i.e. edited) by clarence paget, following the death of herbert van thal: #26: "the 26th pan book of horror stories" (1985), q.v. #27: "the 27th pan book of horror stories" (1986), q.v. #28: "the 28th pan book of horror stories" (1987), q.v. #29: "the 29th pan book of horror stories" (1988), q.v. #30: "the 30th pan book of horror stories" (1989), q.v. | |
| ppint. 26th Jun 2020 | mixed original and reprint anthology containing nineteen short stories and three novelettes, 1p. introductory note by the editor first edition 1959 (probably exists in two states, with printed uk cover price and also without cover price: pan books founder, alan bott, had previous record in the publishing industry, and knew that in the immediately post-war era, when rationing was harder in the yuk-of-gb-&-ni than in the last couple of war years - the british empire was broke, deeply in debt to merkia in interest-bearing loans (the last of which was finally paid off by tony blair's labour government!), and britain had to ''export - or die!'') so he knew that he could get round the severe paper rationing by producing a high proportion of the printing of each pan books p/b as an export edition - without a uk cover price - and actually exporting quite a lot (possibly even most) of these to xxxxia, kiwiiia, suid afrika, egypt, hong kong, singapore, cyprus, malta, gibraltar - and even places as foreign as france!!!°; this permitted all pan books' p/bs to have print-runs on the order of fifty thousand copies and above. . .) ° - where in fact, quite a few pan books of the period were printed: they were carried cross-channel in a converted motor torpedo boat .. .. .. twenty-second printing 1979: (i)sbn (0) 330 10045 9 (sbn on cover, isbn in indica) (incorporating original cat#) cover price 85p 320pp. including 10pp. titles, indica etc, 3 end pp. advertising | |
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