Johnny Mains
Johnny Mains is a British Fantasy Award-winning editor and genre researcher. He was Project Editor on the 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories, created the critically acclaimed series Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians (co-edited with Robin Ince) and has spent the last five years deep in the archives, uncovering ‘lost’ stories by notable authors such as Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, Oscar Cook and Daphne Du Maurier, among others.
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Books by Johnny Mains
Series by Johnny Mains
The Cursed (6 books)
British Library Tales of the Weird (73 books)
Pan Book of Horror Stories (31 books)
Speculative Fiction Books
Comics and Anthology
The Dead of Summer (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
2025 | horror, anthology, short stories, weird fiction, summer fiction, mythology, ancient mythology, celtic mythology, mystery
The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes (British Library Tales of the Weird #54 / 74)
2024 | anthology, collection, short stories, weird fiction, psychological horror, gothic horror
Halloweird (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
2024 | horror, gothic horror, psychological horror, anthology, short stories, weird fiction, ghosts, holiday/seasonal, halloween fiction
Scotland the Strange (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
2023 | fantasy, horror, psychological horror, anthology, short stories, weird fiction, ghosts, witches, mermaid
Celtic Weird (British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)
2023 | fantasy, horror, gothic horror, psychological horror, anthology, short stories, weird fiction, ghosts, mythology, celtic mythology, historical fiction, 19th century
Back from the Dead (Pan Book of Horror Stories)
2010 | fantasy, horror, gothic horror, psychological horror, splatterpunk, anthology, weird fiction
The Pan Book of Horror Stories (Pan Book of Horror Stories #1 / 29)
1959 | fantasy, horror, gothic horror, splatterpunk, anthology, short stories, weird fiction, ghosts, cthulhu