The Graveyard Reader
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cover of first edition | |
| Author | edited by Groff Conklin |
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| Cover artist | Richard Powers |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror short stories |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 156 pp. |
The Graveyard Reader is an anthology of horror short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in 1958, and reprinted in November 1965.[1]
The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1861-1958 in various magazines.[1]
Contents
- "Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
- "The Screaming Woman]]" (Ray Bradbury)
- "A Bottomless Grave" (Ambrose Bierce)
- "The Cart" (Richard Hughes)
- "The Graveyard Rats" (Henry Kuttner)
- "Skin" (Roald Dahl)
- "Night Court" (Mary Elizabeth Counselman)
- "Free Dirt" (Charles Beaumont)
- "Listen, Children, Listen!" (Wallace West)
- "Special Delivery" (John Collier)
- "The Child That Loved a Grave" (Fitz-James O'Brien)
- "The Outsider" (H. P. Lovecraft)
- "The Graveyard Reader" (Theodore Sturgeon)
Notes
- 1 2 The Graveyard Reader title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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