Pan Book Of Horror Stories: 1-6

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Thanks to killercrab at Bloody Hell Of Brit Horror for the cover scans

Herbert Van Thal reprinted a number of stories from both the Not At Night and Creeps anthologies in early volumes of his Pan Book of Horror Stories: he seemed particularly fond of the Not At Night Omnibus and Birkin's Horrors

Not At Night

Pan Horror #1 contains Oscar Cook - His Beautiful Hands, George Fielding Eliot - The Copper Bowl, Hazel Heald - The Horror In The Museum, Hester Holland - The Library, Seabury Quinn - The House Of Horror, Flavia Richardson - Behind The Yellow Door, Anthony Vercoe - Flies.

Pan Horror #2 has Oscar Cook - Piece-meal, Oscar Cook - Boomerang, Guy Preston - The Inn.

Christine Campbell Thomson's non-Not At Night story, A Message For Margie is original to Pan Horror #5

Creeps

Pan Horror #3 is a virtual "best of Creeps/Horrors": Charles Lloyd - The Last Night, Neville Kilvington - Meshes Of Doom, Michael Joseph - The Yellow Cat, Charles Lloyd - Special Diet, N. Dennett - Unburied Bane, Raymond Ferrers Broad - Dr. Fawcett's Experiment, Edith Oliver - The Caretaker's Story, Elliott O'Donnell - The Mystery Of The Locked Room, John Ratho - Lover's Meeting, Charles Birkin - A Poem And A Bunch Of Roses, Lord Dunsany - The Two Bottles Of Relish.

Pan Horror #4 contains Vivian Meik - The Two Old Women, Elliott O'Donnell - The Haunted Telephone.

Pan Horror #6 contains Vivian Meik - The Doll Of Death.

[demonik]

My friend and colleague, Roger Pile (aka Calenture) has added blow-by-blow accounts of The Pan Book Of Horror Stories volumes 1 and 11 to his excellent A Haunted Dolls House (you can find the full-blown reviews here), and I'm indebted to him for granting me permission to quote from them on this spectacularly unhappening board.

So ... I've taken Roger's comments on the seven Not At Night stories in Pan Horror #1 and incorperated them into the relevent threads, i.e.

The Copper Bowl has been added to #5 By Daylight Only, you'll find Behind The Yellow Door and The Horror In The Museum in #10 Terror By Night, Flies is under #8Grim Death, His Beautiful Hands has been added to #7 At Dead Of Night, The Library to #9 Keep On The Light and the Seebs' grisly The House Of Horror to #3 You'll Need A Nightlight.

Most people who advise me I can "quote what I like" usually don't have to wait too long before they regret it, and I may yet return to the Dolls House to filch the juicy bits from his reviews of Hugh Lamb's Star Book Of Horror gruesome twosome.