Tag: Peter Haining

• 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…

  Bill Ectric

  August 31, 2012

  anthology, books, Dorothy Macardle, Douglas A. Anderson, Guy Endore, Peter Haining, The Werewolf of Paris, Weird Tales, Wormwoodiana, writing

• Bill’s Bookshelf Number 3: The Ghouls

  The Ghouls Edited by Peter Haining Published in 1971 by Stein and Day They pulled out all the stops on this one: Introduction by Vincent Price, Afterword by Christopher Lee, Dedication to Boris Karloff, quote from Alfred Hitchcock leading into the Editor’s Foreword, all designed with the “classic horror movie fan” in mind. The inside…

  Bill Ectric

  October 14, 2011

  Aleister Crowley, Alfred Hitchcock, anthology, Barbara Steele, Black Hole Reviews, Book Reviews, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Feathertop, Gaston Leroux, H. P. Lovecraft, Mario Bava, Mark Hodgson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Peter Haining, Scott Ashlin, Somerset Maugham, The Ghouls, Vincent Price

• 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