Friday, 9 May 2014

Death and the Dancing Footman ~ Ngaio Marsh

I went what I call "charity shop hopping" today and bought 3 books . I can't recall the name of the first shop but it was just an old-school junk shop, full of all different tat for sale. It was rather dusty and smelly and felt grotty inside. As soon as I got home I sprayed this book with an anti-bacterial cleaning spray. Paranoid of germs, who me?

Look at the cover though:

That type! That photo! Recently I have been buying more pulp horror, so I'm sure I will enjoy this but even if I don't it won't matter as it was only 20p.

The other shop I bought from was the British Heart Foundation.


I had a feeling I already had the Ngaio Marsh one - and I did - but oh well, it was only £1!

I picked up the Monster Museum anthology because the stories were chosen by Alfred Hitchcock and I haven't read any of them, or at least I don't recall so. (The more anthologies you own, the harder it is to find ones where you haven't read half of the stories within.) It was £2. Both of these books are in mint condition. The binding is still so tight, I don't think they've ever been opened or read, which is both a shame and yet a good thing for me!


Saturday, 29 March 2014

Wordsworth Editions "Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural" check list.



For my own reference. Red ones are out of print. I recieved a reply back from Wordsworth Editions informing me that no new titles will be added to the collection. Such a shame.


Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer by Alice & Claude Askew

The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories by Gertrude Atherton

The Shadow on the Blind and other stories by Louisa Baldwin & Lettuce Galbraith

The Castle of Otranto - Nightmare Abbey - Vathek William Beckford

The Temple of Death – The Ghost Stories of A.C. & R.H. Benson

Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson by E.F. Benson

Terror by Night by Ambrose Bierce

The Charlie Chan Omnibus by Earl Derr Biggers
The Bishop of Hell & Other Stories by Marjorie Bowen

The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah

Couching at the Door by D. K. Broster

Not Exactly Ghosts by Sir Andrew Caldecott

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

The Haunted Hotel & Other Strange Stories by Wilkie Collins

The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins

The Witch of Prague by F. Marion Crawford

The Drug and Other Stories by Aleister Crowley

The Simon Iff Stories and Other Works by Aleister Crowley

Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

All Saint’s Eve by Amelia B. Edwards

The Crimson Blind & Other Stories by H.D. Everett

Tales of Mystery & the Macabre by Elizabeth Gaskell

A Night on the Moor & Other Tales of Dread by R. Murray Gilchrist

The Beast With Five Fingers by W.F. Harvey

Oriental Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder by W.H. Hodgson

The Haunter of the Ring & Other Tales by Robert E. Howard

The Right Hand of Doom & Other Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard

Ghost Stories of Henry James by Henry James

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

Strange Tales by Rudyard Kipling

The House By The Churchyard by Sheridan Le Fanu

In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu

Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories by Sheridan Le Fanu

Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu

An Arsene Lupin Omnibus by Maurice Leblanc

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The Monk by Matthew Lewis

The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume 3 by H.P. Lovecraft

The Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Volume 2 byH.P. Lovecraft

The Lurking Fear: Collected Short Stories Volume 4 by H.P. Lovecraft

The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume I by H.P. Lovecraft

Jack the Ripper by Terry Lynch

The Beetle by Richard Marsh

The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror by E. Nesbit

In Ghostly Company by Amyas Northcote

The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions by Oliver Onions

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

Night Shivers by Mrs J.H. Riddell

Sweeney Todd - The String of Pearls by James Malcolm Rymer

Varney, the Vampyre by James Malcolm Rymer

Bulldog Drummond: The Carl Peterson Quartet       Sapper

Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair

Dracula & Dracula's Guest           Bram Stoker

The Lair of the White Worm & The Lady of the Shroud      Bram Stoker

The Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths by Mark Valentine

The Casefiles of Mr J.G.Reeder   Edgar Wallace

The Complete Four Just Men      Edgar Wallace

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton     Edith Wharton

The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley

To the Devil a Daughter Dennis Wheatley

Voodoo Tales: The Ghost Stories of Henry S. Whitehead   Henry S. Whitehead

The Casebook of Sexton Blake 


Anthologies:

Australian Ghost Stories – Selected by James Doig

Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories

Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories

Gothic Short Stories

Irish Ghost Stories

Scottish Ghost Stories
The Werewolf Pack