The Pan Book of Horror Stories
First publish in 1959 Pan launched a series of books that were to delight and disgust - sometimes even on the same page – readers for thirty years. From classics in the genre to scraping-the-barrel nastiness, the Pan Books of Horror had them all and they continue to be a major influence in published anthologies to the present day, the first book in the series was reissued in 2010 with an introduction by Johnny Mains.
Contents
1. Jugged Hare by Joan Aiken
2. Submerged by A. L. Barker
3. His Beautiful Hands by Oscar Cook
4. The Copper Bowl by George Fielding Eliot
5. Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets by Jack Finney
6. The Kill by Peter Fleming
7. The Physiology of Fear by C. S. Forester
8. W. S. by L. P. Hartley
9. The Horror in the Museum by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft
10. The Library by Hester Gaskell Holland
11. The Mistake by Fielden Hughes
12. Oh, Mirror, Mirror by Nigel Kneale
13. Serenade for Baboons by Noel Langley
14. The Lady Who Didn't Waste Words by Hamilton Macallister
15. A Fragment of Fact by Chris Massie
16. The House of Horror by Seabury Quinn
17. Behind the Yellow Door by Christine Campbell Thomson
18. The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark
19. The Squaw by Bram Stoker
20. Flies by Anthony Vercoe
21. Raspberry Jam by Angus Wilson
22. Nightmare by Alan Wykes
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.
Pan Book of Horror Stories
The Pan Book of Horror Stories was a British paperback series of short horror story anthologies published by Pan Books Ltd. The series ran to thirty volumes, the first published in 1959.
Pan Book of Horror Stories consists of twenty-nine primary books, and includes two additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
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