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Pan Horror & Co. 1950-69

Posted by demonik on April 20, 2009

Pan Horror, Supernatural & Black Magic in the Fifties & Sixties

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Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – Told In The Dark (1950)
Mrs Belloc Lowdnes – The Lodger (1950)
Anon (ed.) – Tales of the Supernatural (1951)
E. T. A. Hoffman – Eight Tales (1952)
M. R. James – Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary (1953)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – A Book Of Strange Stories (1954)
Walter De La Mare – The Return (1954)
M. R. James – More Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary (1955)
Cynthia Asquith (ed.) – Second Ghost Book (1956)
Cynthia Asquith (ed.) – Third Ghost Book (1957)
Jens Bjerre – The Last Cannibals (1958) *non-fiction*
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1959)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 2nd Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1960)
Corbett Thigpen & Hervey Cleckley – The Three Faces Of Eve (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock – Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do On TV (1961)
Garry Hogg – Cannibalism And Human Sacrifice (1961, 1962, 1973) *non-fiction*
Edgar Allan Poe – Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1961, 1968)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 3rd Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1962)
Colin Wilson – Ritual In The Dark (1962)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 4th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1963)
John Burke – The Man Who Finally Died (1963)
Algernon Blackwood – The Dance Of Death (1963, 1973)
Alfred Hitchcock – My Favourites In Suspense Pt. 1 (1963)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 5th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1964)
Alfred Hitchcock – Stories For Late At Night Pt. 1 (1964)
Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange (1964)
Douglas Hunt – Exploring The Occult (1964) *non-fiction*
Ray Russell – The Case Against Satan (1965)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 6th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1965)
Alfred Hitchcock – Stories For Late At Night Pt. 2 (1965)
John Burke – Dr. Terror’s House Of Horror (1965)
Eric Maple – The Dark World Of Witches (1965) *non-fiction*
Ornella Volta (ed.) – Roger Vadim Presents The Vampire (1965, 1971, 1972)
Phyllis Brett Young – Undine (1965)
Kurt Singer (ed.) – The World’s Greatest Stories of the Occult (1965) *non-fiction*
Alfred Hitchcock – My Favourites In Suspense Pt. 2 (1965)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 7th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1966)
Alfred Hitchcock (ed.) – Stories My Mother Never Told Me Part 1 (1966)
John Burke – Hammer Horror Film Omnibus Vol 1 (1966)
John Burke (ed.) – Tales Of Unease (1966)
Peter Curtis – The Witches (1966)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 8th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1967)
John Burke – Hammer Horror Film Omnibus Vol 2 (1967)
Eric Maple – The Realm Of Ghosts (1967) *non-fiction*
Richard Cavendish – The Black Arts (1967, 1969) *non-fiction*
Alfred Hitchcock (ed.) – Stories My Mother Never Told Me Part 2 (1967)
Thomas Love Peacock Nightmare Abbey & Crotchet Castle (1967)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 9th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1968)
Ronald Bassett – Witchfinder General (1968)
Russell Braddon – Committal Chamber (1968)
James Turner (ed.) – The Fourth Ghost Book (1968)
Alfred Hitchcock – Stories Not For The Nervous Pt. 1 (1968)
Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey (1968)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 10th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1969)
John Burke (ed.) – More Tales Of Unease (1969)
Alfred Hitchcock – Stories Not For The Nervous Pt. 2 (1969)

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Pan Horror & Co. 1970-1989

Posted by demonik on April 20, 2009

Pan Horror, Supernatural & Black Magic in the Seventies and Eighties

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Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 11th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1970)
Alfred Hitchcock – Stories That Scared Even Me Pt. 1 (1970)
Cynthia Asquith – The Ghost Book (1970)
June Johns – King of the Witches: The World of Alex Sanders (1971)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 12th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1971)
W. H. Cozens (ed.) – The Pan Book Of Revenge Stories (1971)
James Dickey – Deliverance (1971)
Alfred Hitchcock – Stories That Scared Even Me Pt. 2 (1971)
Rosemary Timperley (ed) – The Fifth Ghost Book (1971)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 13th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1972)
Rosemary Timperley (ed) – The Sixth Ghost Book: Book One (1972)
Rosemary Timperley (ed) – The Sixth Ghost Book: Book Two (1972)
Peter Haining (ed.) – The Witchcraft Reader (1972)
Gordon Honeycombe – Neither Sea Nor Sand (1972)
Arnold Kellett (ed) – Guy de Maupassant: Tales Of Supernatural Terror (1972)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 14th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1973)
David Case – … And Now The Screaming Starts (1973)
James Dickie (ed.) – The Undead (1973)
Michael Hastings – The Nightcomers (1973)
Rosemary Timperley (ed) – The Seventh Ghost Book (1973)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 15th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1974)
Rosemary Timperley (ed) – The Eighth Ghost Book (1974)
Peter Haining (ed.) – Detours Into The Macabre (1974)
Ira Levin – Rosemary’s Baby (1974)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 16th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1975)
Peter Haining (ed.) – The Magicians (1975)
Gabriel Ronay – The Dracula Myth (1975)
Rosemary Timperley (ed) – The Ninth Ghost Book (1975)
Peter Benchley – Jaws (1975)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 17th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1976)
Aidan Chambers (ed.) – The Bumper Book of Ghost Stories (Pan Books, 1976) (Omnibus of The Tenth Ghost Book & The Eleventh Ghost Book)
Peter Haining (ed.) – The Nightmare Reader Vol 1 (1976)
Peter Haining (ed.) – The Nightmare Reader Vol 2 (1976)
John Burke (ed.) – New Tales Of Unease (1976)
Elizabeth Byrd – Rest Without Peace (1976)
Arnold Kellett (ed) – Guy de Maupassant: The Diary Of A Madman (1976)
Arthur Herzog – The Swarm (1976)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 18th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1977)
Frank De Felitta – Audrey Rose (1977)
William Goldman – Magic (1977)
Richard Chopping – The Fly (1977)
Ted Willis – Man-Eater (1977)
Berton Roueche – The Cats (1977)
Daphne du Maurier – The Birds & Other Stories (1977)
Alan Scholefield, – Venom (1977)
Bari Wood – The Killing Gift (1977)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 19th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1978)
Robin Hardy & Anthony Shaffer – The Wicker Man (1978)
Richard Doyle – Deluge (1978)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Tales Of Terror And Mystery (1978)
Robin Cook – Coma (1978)
Hank Searls – Jaws 2 (1978)
Jay Anson – The Amityville Horror (1978)
Polly Parkin & James Hale (eds.) – The Second Bumper Book of Ghost Stories (Pan Book, 1978)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 20th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1979)
Frank De Felitta – The Entity (1979)

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Ramsey Campbell (ed) – New Terrors 1 (1980)
Ramsey Campbell (ed) – New Terrors 2 (1980)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 21st Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1980)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 22nd Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1981)
David Morrell – The Totem (1981)
Ainslie Skinner – Mind’s Eye (1981)
David Shobin – The Unborn (1981)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 23rd Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1982)
Thomas Tessier – The Nightwalker (1982)
Thomas Tessier – Phantom (1982)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 24th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1983)
David Shobin – The Seeding (1983)
Herbert Van Thal (ed.) – 25th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1984)
Robert McCammon – Mystery Walk (1984)
Julian May – The Adversary (1984)
Ramsey Campbell (ed.) – Omnibus of New Terrors (1985)
Clarence Paget (ed.) – 26th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1985)
Patricia Roberts – Tender Prey (1985)
Clarence Paget (ed.) – 27th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1986)
Robert McCammon – Usher’s Passing (1986)
T. E. D. Klein – The Ceremonies (1986)
Robin Cook – Mindbend (1986)
Clarence Paget (ed.) – 28th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1987)
T. E. D. Klein – Dark Gods (1987)
Clarence Paget (ed.) – 29th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1988)
Rex Miller – Slob (1988)
Robin Cook – Mortal Fear (1988)
Robin Cook – Outbreak (1988)
Clarence Paget (ed.) – 30th Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1989)

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James Turner – The Fourth Ghost Book

Posted by demonik on May 31, 2008

James Turner – The Fourth Ghost Book (Pan Books, 1968)

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Robert Aickman – Just a Song at Twilight
Rosemary Timperley – The Private Torture Chamber
Ronald Blythe – A Bit Simple
Denys Val Baker – The Face in the Mirror
Peter Ford – The Home Stretch
D.G. Compton – Sarah
Ronald Duncan – Consanguinity
Evelyn Fabyan – The Lorraine Cross
Kate Barlay – The Expert
Charles Causley – A Local Haunting (verse)
Alain Danielou – The Game of Dice
Fielden Hughes – ‘Dear Ghost…’
Edward Hyams – Exorcizing Baldassare
Christine Brooke-Rose – On Terms
Paul Tabori – Fear
John Pudney – Ivory Joe
Anthony Rye – Hapladies
William Sansom – A Saving Grace
Jean Stubbs – The Unquiet Spirit
R.W. Thompson – The house by the Water
James Turner – The Guardian
Fred Urquhart – Water Water Wallflower
Rosalind Wade – Averil at Endercombe

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Polly Parkin & James Hale – 2nd Bumper Ghost Book

Posted by demonik on May 31, 2008

Polly Parkin & James Hale (eds.) – The Second Bumper Book of Ghost Stories (Pan Book, 1978)

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The final two Ghost Books (the Twelfth and, appropriately, Thirteenth) were edited by Polly Parkin and James Hale, respectively. Again, Pan issued an omnibus volume:

William Sansom – Preview
Gilbert Phelps – Call a Spade a Spade
Sylvia Sherry – Footsteps
Lance Salway – Undesirable Residence
Albert Rowe – The Question
Rosemary Timperley – Out of Sight, Out of Life
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – Calvunder
Giles Gordon – In Spite of Himself
Dorothy K. Haynes – Matthew Lurk, Tractorman
James Parkhill-Rathbone – A Shade Byronic
Margaret Potter – The Boy on the Bus
Steve Wilson – Ghosts There Must Be With Me in This Old House
Dulan Barber – Cuckoo
Kenneth Harker – Sport of the Oak
Donald E. Westlake – In at the Death
Eva Hanagan – The Uninvited
Peter Tinniswood – The Top Coat
Maria de Selby – Robe’s Mother
H.R.F. Keating – Mr Saul
R.B. Hart – Moving On
Giles Gordon – Horses of Venice
Fay Weldon – Angel, All Innocence
Graham Lord – The Poltergeist
Tom Caslon – Gravedigger

Thanks to Alan Frackelton for providing the contents, note and cover scan!

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