The Supernatural Reader

by Groff Conklin (editor)

Twenty-seven tales strange and mysterious, told by masters of the art. This collection of tales of the weird, grotesque and fantastic will offer readers a welcome escape from the cares and confusions of our complex daily living. Ranging in time from the Victorian era to the present (1953) and skipping in subject matter from sheer horror to delicate fantasy.

CONTENTS
Introduction · Groff & Lucy Conklin
The Angel with Purple Hair · Herb Paul
For the Blood Is the Life · F. Marion Crawford
The Stranger · Richard Hughes
Mrs. Manifold · Stephen Grendon
Piffingcap · A. E. Coppard
Shottle Bop · Theodore Sturgeon
Gabriel-Ernest · Saki
The Lost Room · Fitz-James O’Brien
The Traitor · James S. Hart
Angus MacAuliffe and the Gowden Tooch · Charles R. Tanner
Are You Run-Down, Tired— · Babette Rosmond & Leonard M. Lake
The Nature of the Evidence · May Sinclair
The Tree’s Wife · Mary Elizabeth Counselman
The Pavilion · E. Nesbit
Pick-up for Olympus · Edgar Pangborn
The Swap · H. F. Heard
The Tombling Day · Ray Bradbury
Minuke · Nigel Kneale
Bird of Prey · John Collier ·
The Thing in the Cellar · David H. Keller, M.D.
Devil’s Henchman · Will F. Jenkins
Lost Hearts · M. R. James
Thirteen at Table · Lord Dunsany ·
Lights · Philip M. Fisher ·
he Silver Highway · Harold Lawlor
The Moonlit Road · Ambrose Bierce ·
The Curate’s Friend · E. M. Forster

Genres: Horror, Anthologies, Fantasy, Short Stories

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1953

About the author

Edward Groff Conklin (September 6, 1904, Glen Ridge, New Jersey - July 19, 1968, Pawling, New York) was a leading science fiction anthologist. Conklin edited 41 anthologies of science fiction, wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects. From 1950 to 1955, he was the book critic for Galaxy Science Fiction.