Tag: August Derleth

• The Devil’s Generation: Bill’s Bookshelf No. 2

  For the second installment of Bill’s Bookshelf, I’ve chosen another anthology, The Devil’s Generation (1973, Lancer Books, Inc.), edited by Vic Ghidalia. Each story involves kids, from an unborn baby to teenage punks and everything in between, but the book contains few, if any, actual stories about the devil. Satan was having a heyday in…

  Bill Ectric

  July 6, 2011

  Algernon Blackwood, Amazing Stories, anthology, Anthony Boucher, August Derleth, Book Reviews, Clifford D. Simak, Henry Kuttner, Lancer Books, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robert Silverberg, Rosemary’s Baby, The Devil’s Generation, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vic Ghidalia, Weird Tales, William Castle, William S. Burroughs, writers, writing

• 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…

  Bill Ectric

  May 30, 2011

  anthology, Antinous, August Derleth, Book Reviews, book study, Donald Wandrei, Fritz Haarmann, gothic, gothic fiction, gothic revival, Hieronymus Bosch, John Polidori, M. R. James, Malleus Maleficarum, Mary Shelley, Montague Summers, Peter Haining, The Midnight People, The Vampyre