The Anthologist's Folly

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Cover art by O’Keefe

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The Anthologist’s Folly

 

 

Edited by

Johnny Mains

 

In the grand tradition of such anthologists of the weird and macabre as Mike Ashley, Richard Dalby, Hugh Lamb and Michel Parry, award-winning author Johnny Mains has compiled this selection of sixteen tales for the haunting edification of a new generation of readers.

Even though the compiler claims this anthology as being “a folly — created for no other reason than to entertain myself and those who come across it”, the reader is the real beneficiary. As well is reprising classic tales of horror by Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Oswell Blakeston and A. J. Alan, Mains has unearthed previously hidden and neglected nuggets from a rich subterranean vein of scintillating terror. Also resurrected is the rarely-reprinted novella ‘The Hole of the Pit’ by Adrian Ross.

In the end, this Anthology is no Folly for the reader — it is instead a cornucopia of eldritch enchantment.

 

Contents:

 

The Mailed Foot by Hermina Black & Edith Blair-Staples

Ancient Lights by Algernon Blackwood

The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker

The Face by Gertrude Dunn

The Villa Désirée by May Sinclair

On the Staircase by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The Linbarrow Ghost by Mrs. James Peck

The Follower by Mary Julian

The Fear from the Lake by Oswell Blakeston

The Last Kiss by Maurice Level

The Hole of the Pit by Adrian Ross

The Lover of the Dead by Frederick Cowles

One Who Saw by A. M. Burrage

Jeanne’s Dream by Mrs. C. N. Williamson

The Hair by A. J. Alan

The Fool of Philosophers by Olive Harper

 

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"How could anyone resist a book titled 'The Anthologist’s Folly'? I couldn’t..."


Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

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