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I've read seven of the twenty-three stories in Tales of the Undead in other collections, but that's not quite a third of them. I like to have at least half of the stories in an anthology not be in my other books before I buy it. Some of the stories are much better than others, but none of them are complete duds. As one might expect from a book with 'undead' in the title, there are plenty of ghosts and vampires. Some of those vampires are quite unusual. If you're like me, you'll want a list of the stories before you buy it online, so here it is:
'Carmilla' by J. Sheridan LeFanu When I was young I got very tired of this classic horror story because it appeared in so many anthologies. The experienced horror fan who meets it for the first time will have no difficulty figuring out what's going on long before young Laura and her father do.
'Brother Lucifer' by Chandler W. Whipple Why is there no mention of Brother Lucifer in the abbey records after 1218? Will our antiquarian vicar find the reason?
'The Metronome' by August W. Derleth It's hard to have sympathy for the stepmother who took his beloved metronome from her young stepson.
'Uncanonized' by Seabury Quinn Lovely Gertruda has a choice between rape or death. Can her beloved Wolfgang save her?
'The Feast in the Abbey' by Robert Bloch A man seeks shelter from a storm. He would have done better to court pneumonia outside.
'Clay-Shuttered Doors' by Helen R. Hull A lovely wife and mother is never the same after an accident.
'Amour Dure' by Vernon Lee From the diary of young historian who develops a most unhealthful obsession.
'School for the Unspeakables' by Manly Wade Wellman A teen sent off to school is met by the kind of student it's best to avoid.
'The Adventure of the German Student' by Washington Irving Another classic horror story, this one set during the French Revolution. Is it still taught in US schools?
'The Tomb' by H. P. Lovecraft The last of his line is obsessed about his infamous ancestors' tomb.
'Second Night Out' by Frank Belknap Long A cruise ship has a repulsively nasty and deadly haunt in stateroom 16D.
'Clarimonde' by Theophile Gautier A courtesan loves a priest and vice-versa.
'The Seed From the Sepulcher' by Clark Ashton Smith Orchid hunter tries treasure hunting in a ruined jungle city and doesn't want to talk about it.
'For the Blood Is the Life' by F. Marion Crawford (Another horror classic) For heaven's sake, don't go on that mound after dark!
'The Story of Ming-Y' by Lafcadio Hearn This is a charming story set in Ming dynasty China. The young scholar is in better mental health than several we've seen in this book.
'The Quick and the Dead' by Vincent Starrett A French poet's mistress has died. How he suffers!
'Satan's Circus' by Eleanor Smith Why do the animals go wild with fear whenever a certain woman is near?
'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton A man pays a very uncomfortable visit.
'Septima' by Marcel Schwob A slave is already the servant of a god who is love's adversary when she falls in love.
'Count Magnus' by M. R. James A travel writer gets too curious about one of his subjects.
'And He Shall Sing...' by H. R. Wakefield A Japanese man brings beautiful poems to a publisher.
'Doom of the House of Duryea' by Earl Peirce [Jr.] Father and son reunite 20 years after the murders of the younger sons.
'The Room in the Tower' by E. F. Benson That tower room is a dream come true.
Ms. Blaisdell's illustrations were made with what I believe is called the 'scratchboard' or 'scraperboard' technique. Almost all of them are white lines on a black background, which gives them an eerie look. Her depiction of an African woman is much more attractive than the author's description. Her two Chinese characters are very nice looking. Is it because this book is copyrighted 1947 that a Japanese character is the only one that looks like a cartoon?
Do I recommend this anthology? I hadn't finished a library copy when I found one in a used book store and still I bought it. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
UPON A PAPER attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. illuminates. ['Carmilla']
IN THE BOOK-LINED study of the little cottage which stood beside the ancient church, John Druten, Vicar of Wenley, sat peering at the illuminated volume before him. ['Brother Lucifer']
AS SHE LAY in bed, with the pleasant, concealing darkness all around her, her lips parted in a smile that was the only expression of her relief that the funeral was over at last. ['The Metronome']
GRAY-BLUE AND pungent-sweet, the scent of leaf smoke floated on the breeze that wandered lazily across the valley; from the larches growing on the farther hills the cuckoo's call, a little sad, a little mocking, drifted softly as the echo of a half-heard echo. ['Uncanonized']
A CLAP OF thunder in the sullen west heralded the approach of night and storm together. and the sky deepened to a sorcerous black. ['The Feast in the Abbey']
FOR MONTHS I have tried not to think of Thalia Corson. ['Clay-Shuttered Doors']
URBANIA, AUGUST 20th, 1885. -- I had longed, these years and years, to be in Italy, to come face to face with the Past; and was this Italy, was this the Past? ['Amour Dure']
BART SETWICK DROPPED off the train at Carrington and stood for a moment on the station platform, an honest-faced, well-knit lad in tweeds. ['School for the Unspeakables']
ON A STORMY night, in the tempestuous times of the French Revolution, a young German was returning to his lodgings, at a late hour, across the old part of Paris. ['The Adventure of the German Student']
IN RELATING THE circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt as to the authenticity of my narrative. ['The Tomb']
IT WAS PAST midnight when I left my stateroom. ['Second Night Out']
YOU ASK ME, brother, if I have ever loved. ['Clarimonde']
YES, I FOUND the place, said Falmer. ['The Seed From the Sepulcher']
WE HAD DINED at sunset on the broad roof of the old tower, because it was cooler there during the great heat of summer. ['For the Blood Is the Life']
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS ago, in the reign of the Emperor Houng-Wou, whose dynasty was Ming, there lived in the city of Genii, the city of Kwang-tchau-fu, a man celebrated for his learning and for his piety, named Tien-Pelou. ['The Story of Ming-Y']
LOOKING WITH MELANCHOLY satisfaction at his reflected image in the glass, Lacenaire realized that seldom had he appeared to greater advantage. ['The Quick and the Dead']
I ONCE ASKED a circus artist, whom I knew to have worked at one time with the Circust Brandt, whether or not he had enjoyed traveling with this well-known show. ['Satan's Circus']
IT WAS NOT till the following spring that I plucked up courage to tell Mrs. Bridgeworth what had happened to me that night at Morgat. ['Miss Mary Pask']
SEPTIMA WAS a slave under the African sun in the city of Hadrumetum. ['Septima']
BY WHAT MEANS the papers out of which I have made a connected story came into my hands is the last point which the reader will learn from these pages. ['Count Magnus']
MR. CHELTENHAM, A rather dusty and musty, yet amiable-looking person, a veteran of some sixty publishing seasons, was seated at his desk in his charming if a little rickety office in Willoughby Court, one placid September afternoon, reflecting drowsily on an aphorism which an American publisher friend had yapped at him during luncheon. ['And He Shall Sing...']
ARTHUR DURYEA, a young, handsome man, came to meet his father for the first time in twenty years. ['Doom of the House of Duryea']
IT IS PROBABLE that everybody who is at all a constant dreamer has had at least one experience of an event or a sequence of circumstances which have come to his mind in sleep being subsequently realized in the material world. ['The Room in the Tower']
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
It was long before the terror of recent events subsided; and to this hour the image of Carmilla returned to memory with ambiguous alternations -- sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door. ['Carmilla']
There were those who wept to see his head fall at the ax-stroke, for he had ever been a kindly man, and a godly one, according to his lights; but certainly no saint. ['Uncanonized']
The chief newspapers of the provice of Umbria informed the public that, on Christmas morning of the year 1885, the bronze equestrian statue of Robert II was found grievously mutilated; and that Professor Spiridion Trepka of Posen, in the German Empire, has been discovered dead of a stab in the region of the heart, given by an unknown hand. ['Amour Dure']
Haiti was a black horror, a repellant quagmire of menacing shadows and alien desolation, and in Martinique I did not get a single hour of undisturbed sleep in my hotel room. ['Second Night Out']
Never look upon a woman, and walk abroad always with your eyes on the ground: for, however chaste and watchful you may be, the error of a single moment is enough to cause you to lose eternity. ['Clarimonde']
At last Thone amid the lethal, ever-growing web; bloated and colossal, the plant lived on; and in its upper branches , through the still, stifling afternoon, a second flower began to unforld. ['The Seed From the Sepulcher']
Never could he forget Sie-Thao; and yet it is said that he never spoke of her -- not even to his children when they begged him to tell them the story of two beautiful objects that always lay upon his writing table: a lion of yellow jade, and a brush case of carven agate. ['The Story of Ming-Y']
Sextilius rests in the Necropolis at Hadrumetum between Septima, the enchantress, and her sister, Phoinissa, the words of Septima's enchantment are inscribed upon a leaden plaque which the enchantress lowered into Phoinissa's tomb through the little hole intended for libations. ['Septima']
It had stood empty since 1863, and there seemed no prospect of letting it; so I had it pulled down, and the papers of which I have given you an abstract were found in a forgotten cupboard under the window in the best bedroom. ['Count Magnus']
Mr. Cheltenham recognized it, as he had expected, and when he saw the bed and a red-stained sheet upon it, he trembled again -- and then the Inspector went forward and drew down the sheet. ['And He Shall Sing...']
Obviously such talk was held in popular contempt; yet, in view of the controversial war which followed, the authorities considered it expedient to consign both Duryeas to the crematory... ['Doom of the House of Duryea']
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'Carmilla' by J. Sheridan LeFanu
When I was young I got very tired of this classic horror story because it appeared in so many anthologies. The experienced horror fan who meets it for the first time will have no difficulty figuring out what's going on long before young Laura and her father do.
'Brother Lucifer' by Chandler W. Whipple
Why is there no mention of Brother Lucifer in the abbey records after 1218? Will our antiquarian vicar find the reason?
'The Metronome' by August W. Derleth
It's hard to have sympathy for the stepmother who took his beloved metronome from her young stepson.
'Uncanonized' by Seabury Quinn
Lovely Gertruda has a choice between rape or death. Can her beloved Wolfgang save her?
'The Feast in the Abbey' by Robert Bloch
A man seeks shelter from a storm. He would have done better to court pneumonia outside.
'Clay-Shuttered Doors' by Helen R. Hull
A lovely wife and mother is never the same after an accident.
'Amour Dure' by Vernon Lee
From the diary of young historian who develops a most unhealthful obsession.
'School for the Unspeakables' by Manly Wade Wellman
A teen sent off to school is met by the kind of student it's best to avoid.
'The Adventure of the German Student' by Washington Irving
Another classic horror story, this one set during the French Revolution. Is it still taught in US schools?
'The Tomb' by H. P. Lovecraft
The last of his line is obsessed about his infamous ancestors' tomb.
'Second Night Out' by Frank Belknap Long
A cruise ship has a repulsively nasty and deadly haunt in stateroom 16D.
'Clarimonde' by Theophile Gautier
A courtesan loves a priest and vice-versa.
'The Seed From the Sepulcher' by Clark Ashton Smith
Orchid hunter tries treasure hunting in a ruined jungle city and doesn't want to talk about it.
'For the Blood Is the Life' by F. Marion Crawford
(Another horror classic) For heaven's sake, don't go on that mound after dark!
'The Story of Ming-Y' by Lafcadio Hearn
This is a charming story set in Ming dynasty China. The young scholar is in better mental health than several we've seen in this book.
'The Quick and the Dead' by Vincent Starrett
A French poet's mistress has died. How he suffers!
'Satan's Circus' by Eleanor Smith
Why do the animals go wild with fear whenever a certain woman is near?
'Miss Mary Pask' by Edith Wharton
A man pays a very uncomfortable visit.
'Septima' by Marcel Schwob
A slave is already the servant of a god who is love's adversary when she falls in love.
'Count Magnus' by M. R. James
A travel writer gets too curious about one of his subjects.
'And He Shall Sing...' by H. R. Wakefield
A Japanese man brings beautiful poems to a publisher.
'Doom of the House of Duryea' by Earl Peirce [Jr.]
Father and son reunite 20 years after the murders of the younger sons.
'The Room in the Tower' by E. F. Benson
That tower room is a dream come true.
Ms. Blaisdell's illustrations were made with what I believe is called the 'scratchboard' or 'scraperboard' technique. Almost all of them are white lines on a black background, which gives them an eerie look. Her depiction of an African woman is much more attractive than the author's description. Her two Chinese characters are very nice looking. Is it because this book is copyrighted 1947 that a Japanese character is the only one that looks like a cartoon?
Do I recommend this anthology? I hadn't finished a library copy when I found one in a used book store and still I bought it. (