The Graveyard Reader

by Groff Conklin (Editor), Roald Dahl, Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Stories to chill the blood and set the nerve-ends screaming!

Contents:

The Screaming Woman by Ray Bradbury
A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce
The Cart by Richard Hughes
The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner
Skin by Roald Dahl
Night Court by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Free Dirt by Charles Beaumont
Listen, Children, Listen by Wallace West
Special Delivery by John Collier
The Child That Loved a Grave by Fitz-James O'Brien
The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft
The Graveyard Reader by Theodore Sturgeon

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Fantasy

156 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1958

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.

Reviews

[N. M. D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

A completely trustworthy collection by reliable individuals you probably already know if you've read things older than 1980. Lovecraft, Bradbury, Sturgeon, Bierce, etc. I got this specifically for Kuttner's Graveyard Rats, which was quite fun. I had no idea Roald Dahl wrote horror and that story was quite dark. Counselman's Night Court I've read before (amongst others here) and I'm always so disappointed by how racist it comes of, like much of her other work too, because it's an otherwise great story.

A few were duds for me, like the Hughes and West stories, but all are so tiny and fast that I didn't have time to be bothered about it. A particualy solid collection for someone unexperienced with but interested in pre-modern horror.

[Cheryl]

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