Robert Aickman and Elizabeth J. Howard – We Are For The Dark

Robert Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard – We Are For The Dark (Mayflower, December 1965)

Perfect Love
The Trains
The Insufficient Answer
Three Miles Up
The View
Left Luggage

“Conveys a curiously real sense of doom. Here are ghost stories combining the tragic, the macabre, the erotic in a way that is startlingly new.”

Shared anthology, the Aickman stories being The Trains, The View and The Insufficient Answer with Howard contributing Perfect Love, Left Luggage and the masterpiece Three Miles Up.

Syd Bentlif – Horror Anthlology

Syd Bentlif (ed.) – Horror Anthlology (1965)

Elizabeth Howard and Robert Aickman – Left Luggage
Edgar Allan Poe – Silence
Ray Bradbury – The Dwarf
Isabel Colegate – The Nice Boys
Edgar Allan Poe – The Tell-Tale Heart
M. R. James – The Uncommon Prayer Book
Jerome Bixby – It’s a Good Life
Algernon Blackwood – The Terror of the Twins
Joan Aiken – Marmalade Wine

At least Syd put more thought into his selection than he did the title.

Jerome Bixby – It’s A Good Life: The truly nasty story of Little Anthony whose magical powers are such that he can read minds and make mice eat themselves if he feels like it. Everybody has to think happy thoughts around him, as it just doesn’t do to upset him in even the slightest way …

Joan Aikin – Marmalade Wine: Journalist and would-be legendary poet Roger Hacker is walking through a beautiful woodland glade when he meets the reclusive Sir Francis Deeking, a master surgeon recently in the news for reasons Hacker can’t recall. Deeking invites him to sample his home made wine and, feeling inferior in the shadow of the great man’s achievements, Hacker boasts that he has his own special gift – he can predict the future. When he correctly guesses the winner of the afternoon meeting at Manchester, Deeking sees pound signs flashing before his eyes. Hacker, who won’t be walking home any time soon, awakens from his drug-induced slumber having finally remembered why his host had made the headlines ….

Thanks to Justin for the cover scan. 

Peter Haining – More Christopher Lee ….

Peter Haining (ed.) – More of Christopher Lee’s New Chamber of Horrors (Mayflower, 1976)

Algernon Blackwood – The Empty Sleeve
H. P. Lovecraft – The Thing On The Doorstep
Fritz Leiber – Four Ghosts In Hamlet
John Collier – The Devil, George And Rosie
Ray Bradbury – The October Game
Dennis Wheatley – A Life For A Life
Richard Matheson – No Such Thing As A Vampire

James Turner – The Unlikely Ghosts

James Turner  (ed.)  – The Unlikely Ghosts (Mayflower, 1969).

Kate Barlay – The Visitation of Aunt Clara
Ronald Blythe – Everything a Man Needs
D. G. Compton – The Eternal Amateur
Ronald Duncan – Diary of a Poltergeist
James Hamilton-Paterson – Salpingogram
Christine Brooke-Rose – The Foot
Anthony Rye – My Man Closters
William Kean Seymour – A Tale in a Club
Jean Stubbs – Are You There
Paul Tabori – The Bridge
Fred Urquhart – The Ghostess with the Mostest
Rosalind Wade – Shepherd Show Me