“The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)

“The Other Celia” by Theodore Sturgeon ( Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1957) “Fever Dream” by Ray Bradbury ( Weird Tales, September 1948) “At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein” by Harry Harrison ( Science Fantasy, September 1965) “The Snail Watcher” by Patricia Highsmith ( Gamma 3) “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe” by Robert Bloch ( Weird Tales, November 1946) The pulp stories were chiefly taken from Weird Tales, but there are also contributions from Galaxy, Fantastic, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, F&SF, and Science Fantasy.Īt right is the July 1949 issue of Weird Tales, containing Frederic Brown’s classic “Come and Go Mad.” (Cover by Matt Fox). Here’s Bruce Pennington’s gorgeous wraparound cover for the New English Library edition, just because we love Bruce Pennington:Īnd here’s the back cover of the Pinnacle edition (click for bigger version). Lovecraft and August Derleth, Henry Kuttner, Isaac Asimov, and others).

Marion Crawford and others) and pulp horror stories published between 1938-1965 (14 stories by Robert Bloch, Harry Harrison, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Fredric Brown, H. It contains 23 stories, a nice mix of pre-1910 fiction (nine stories by Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. It was reissued in November 1972 by New English Library in the UK with a cover by the fabulous Bruce Pennington (middle), and in the US by Pinnacle Books (right, cover artist unknown). Beyond the Curtain of Dark was originally published in October 1966 in the UK by Four Square Books, with a delightful cover by Josh Kirby (above left). I stumbled across a very rewarding anthology of horror stories in a $1 bin at Windy City Pulp and paper earlier this year. Black Gate readers are probably most familiar with his Sherlock Holmes books (which Bob Byrne has mentioned more than once), his 1976 Weird Tales facsimile anthology, and his various volumes on the pulps, including The Fantastic Pulps (1976), Terror!: A History of Horror Illustrations from the Pulp Magazines (1977), Supernatural Sleuths (1986), and The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines (2001). Peter Haining was a prolific editor, producing over 100 anthologies between 1965 and his death in 2007.

Supernatural Sleuths by Peter Haining