Dennis Wheatley: A Century Of Horror

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Dennis Wheatley (ed.) - A Century Of Horror Stories (Hutchinson, 1935)

Detail from the cover

Introduction - Dennis Wheatley

Algernon Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries
H. T. W. Bousfield - The Unknown Island
Margaret Irwin - The Earlier Service
Guy Endore - Lazarus Returns
L. A. G. Strong - Breakdown
Evelyn Waugh - The Man Who Liked Dickens
Mrs. Oliphant - The Open Door
Augustus Muir - The Reptile
Saki - The Music On The Hill
F. Tennyson Jesse - The Canary
Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan
H. G. Wells - The Red Room
R. H. Barham - The Leech Of Folkestone
Ex Private X (A. M. Burrage) - Smee
Ex Private X (A. M. Burrage) - One Who Saw
Francis Isles - Dark Journey
E. W. Hornung - The Fate Of Faustina
Martin Armstrong - The Pipe-Smoker
William Younger - The Angelus
Edgar Allan Poe - The Case Of M. Valdemar
Michael Joseph - A Glass Of Milk
Blanche Bane Kuder - From What Strange Land
Honore de Balzac - El Verdugo
Richard Hughes - Poor Man's Inn
E. M. Winch - A La Tartare
Sir Hugh Clifford - The Ghoul
F. Marion Crawford - The Dead Smile
T. F. Powys - The House With The Echo
A. E. Coppard - Arabesque: The Mouse
Alec Waugh - The Last Chukka
John Metcalfe - Mr. Meldrum's Mania
Wilkie Collins - A Terribly Strange Bed
Theodore Drieser - The Hand
Thomas Burke - The Bird
M. R. James - The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas
Guy de Maupassant - Vendetta
Ambrose Bierce - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
James Hilton - The Mallet
Hugh Walpole - The Silver Mask
Bram Stoker - The Judges House
Mark Channing - The Feet
Louis Golding - The Call Of The Hand
Bernard Bromage - The House
Walter De La Mare - All Hallows
C. E. Montague - The First Blood Sweep
John Russell - The Fourth Man
John Russell - The Price Of The Head
John Russell - The Lost God
William Hope Hodgson - The Island Of The Ud
William Hope Hodgson - The Whistling Room
William Hope Hodgson - The Derelict
Dennis Wheatley - The Snake

1024 pages. They don't make 'em like this any more ...
Wheatley reproduced several of the stories over two Arrow paperbacks, "Shafts Of Fear" and "Quiver Of Horror" for Arrow in 1964, adding two new Charles Birkin stories and his own A Life For A Life.

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Dennis Wheatley (ed.) - Shafts Of Fear (Arrow, 1964)

Introduction - Dennis Wheatley

Evelyn Waugh - The Man Who Liked Dickens
Martin Armstrong - The Pipe-Smoker
Michael Joseph - A Glass Of Milk
William Hope Hodgson - The Island Of The Ud
William Hope Hodgson - The Derelict
T. F. Powys - The House With The Echo
A. E. Coppard - Arabesque: The Mouse
Alec Waugh - The Last Chukka
Charles Birkin - A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts
Thomas Burke - The Bird
Guy de Maupassant - Vendetta
James Hilton - The Mallet
Hugh Walpole - The Silver Mask
C. E. Montague - The First Blood Sweep
John Russell - The Fourth Man
John Russell - The Price Of The Head
John Russell - The Lost God
Ambrose Bierce - A Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
Dennis Wheatley - The Snake

Dennis Wheatley (ed.) - Quiver Of Horror (Arrow, 1964)

Introduction - Dennis Wheatley

Margaret Irwin - The Earlier Service
Mrs. Oliphant - The Open Door
Saki - The Music On The Hill
F. Tennyson Jesse - The Canary
Ex Private X (A. M. Burrage) - Smee
Ex Private X (A. M. Burrage) - One Who Saw
William Younger - The Angelus
Theodore Drieser - The Hand
M. R. James - The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas
Bram Stoker - The Judges House
Louis Golding - The Call Of The Hand
Walter De La Mare - All Hallows
William Hope Hodgson - The Whistling Room
Charles Birkin - A Right To Know
Dennis Wheatley - A Life For A Life

A new introduction (repeated in both volumes) and the two Birkin stories would be reason enough for some of us to buy this. The C. E. Montague war story is a forgotten gem (the sweepstake involves betting on which of you will be next to die), otherwise the best of this stuff is more easily obtainable elsewhere.

Wheatley also edited three volumes of "Uncanny Tales" and a "Satanism & Witches" selection for Sphere books' Dennis Wheatley Library Of The Occult series (45 volumes, 1974-77)