Tag: anthology
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Emanations Vol. 8
The eighth volume of the critically acclaimed Emanations literary anthology series, Octo-Emanations , includes a new Penny Turin story by Bill Ectric, “The Psychogeography of the Gnostic Phalanx Society.” The book also contains stunning new art, illustrations, and writing from around the world. The forty-two contributors represent South Korea, Canada, India, Oman, Kenya, Nepal, France, Nigeria, the United Kingdom,…
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Haining Waning?
Douglas A. Anderson maintains that this Werewolf anthology (left) contains no story by Guy Endore (right) Yet another bogus claim by anthologist Peter Haining, as investigated by Douglas A. Anderson on Wormwoodiana. Anderson says, “I’ve written elsewhere of a few other instances of his outrageous frauds (for…
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Bill’s Bookshelf # 4: Alfred Hitchcock Presents…Books
By the early 1960s, Alfred Hitchcock was riding an enormous wave of popularity. His television program, Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955 – 1962), had made the director a household name. 1960 saw the release of his highest grossing and arguably most famous film, Psycho, followed sensationally in 1963 by The Birds. I’m a “baby boomer.” Watching…
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Bill’s Bookshelf: The Midnight People
The Midnight People 1968, Popular Library Edition, Published by arrangement with Leslie Frewin Publishers Limited Edited by Peter Haining I bought this book, brand new off the shelf for 75 cents, in 1968 or 1969, when I was a teenager. While The Midnight People is ostensibly a vampire anthology, Editor Peter Haining chose to include a…
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Creepy Cut-Up, sort of
Astral Weeks columnist Ed Park finds that horror story quotes take on a life of their own (via the Los Angeles Times). While assembling my notes for a review of the Library of America anthology “American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny” (Library of America, two volumes, edited by Peter Straub: “From Poe to the…