Single Author Collections/Anthologies

[Davelectro]

The Fantastic Fiction of Hannes Bok


You might find him to be of interest. He was a writer of fiction and an illustrator.

Thank you Baylor, never heard of Hannes, I'll check him out!

Some of the more recent books I've gotten in:

20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
Nightshade & Damnations -Gerald Kersh
What Goes on in the Walls at Night - Andrew Shrader
The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories - Wilkie Collins
Glyphotech & Other Macabre Processes - Mark Samuels
Haunts & Horrors - M P Shiel
12 Tales of Suspense & the Supernatural - Davis Grubb
Perchance to Dream - Charles Beaumont
The Collected Tales of - Walter de la Mare
Sleep No More - L T C Rolt
The Traveling Grave - L P Hartley
Ghost Stories of - Henry James
The Best of - Richard Matheson

Any comments? Maybe some of you have read these?

 

[Davelectro]

Glad to hear. I hope you enjoy them.

I've never heard of the Howard before, but ISFDB shows it has "Three Miles Up," which is a really good, ambiguous weird tale.

I still haven't gotten to the Hill or finished a Du Maurier collection, so I'll be interested in anything you have to say about those especially.

Hello again! Hope you have been well . Here we are a year later, and I've done loads of reading most of the previously mentioned authors.

The birds and Other Stories was fantastic, I especially enjoyed the birds, the apple tree & the old man. I guess you've probably read these stories?

duMaurier's writing is absolutely superb, flows very smoothly and is really easy to get lost in her picturesque descriptions. She can be shocking and graphic, and she can also be elegant and sophisticated and everything in between.

I must get a collection of hers.

 

[Davelectro]

Oh and I haven't gotten to the Joe Hill yet, except one story which I've completely forgotten about LOL.

 

[dask]

The birds and Other Stories was fantastic, I especially enjoyed the birds, the apple tree & the old man. I guess you've probably read these stories?

Thought "The Birds" story was superb and made me wish the movie would have more, much more, the way du Maurier wrote it.

 

[Randy M.]

Hello again! Hope you have been well . Here we are a year later, and I've done loads of reading most of the previously mentioned authors.

The birds and Other Stories was fantastic, I especially enjoyed the birds, the apple tree & the old man. I guess you've probably read these stories?

duMaurier's writing is absolutely superb, flows very smoothly and is really easy to get lost in her picturesque descriptions. She can be shocking and graphic, and she can also be elegant and sophisticated and everything in between.

I must get a collection of hers.

Of those, I've only read "The Apple Tree," which I agree is a terrific story. She's one of those English writers who wrote amazingly good sentences that added up to strong stories -- thinking of L. P. Hartley and Walter de la Mare, among others -- and when put in service of ghost/horror stories really made for creepy reads. i really should finish the collection I started a couple of years ago.

I haven't gotten to Hill's short work yet, either.

 

[Davelectro]

Of those, I've only read "The Apple Tree," which I agree is a terrific story. She's one of those English writers who wrote amazingly good sentences that added up to strong stories -- thinking of L. P. Hartley and Walter de la Mare, among others -- and when put in service of ghost/horror stories really made for creepy reads. i really should finish the collection I started a couple of years ago.

I haven't gotten to Hill's short work yet, either.

Yes, very reminiscent of Hartley and delamare in many ways!

I am wondering about a good collection of her stories, is the one that you were reading a good one?

 

[Randy M.]

I don't know if it's the best, but according to ISFDB, Echoes of the Macabre has the most stories:

• 11 • Don't Look Now • (1970) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 63 • The Apple Tree • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 111 • The Pool • (1959) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 145 • The Blue Lenses • (1959) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 185 • Kiss Me Again, Stranger • non-genre • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 213 • The Chamois • (1959) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 247 • Not After Midnight • (1971) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 297 • The Old Man • (1952) • short story by Daphne du Maurier
• 311 • The Birds • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier

So it includes her two best known shorter works, "Don't Look Now" and "The Birds" and offers others I'd never heard of before coming across the collection.