Re: H. R. Wakefield, anyone?
Posted by:
jdworth (IP Logged)
Date: 3 September, 2011 10:42PM
Yes, I must admit that I'm glad to see that title again myself. That and its predecessor were among my earliest acquisitions in the field (aside from a collection of Poe and an anthology entitled Ghosts and Things, edited by Hal Cantor), when I was between eight and twelve, and yes, several of the stories in there gave me the willies. I reacquired them about six years ago, out of sheer sentimentalism, and find that they remain, on the whole, fine anthologies. (The edition I have is that put out by Whitman publishing company: Tales to Tremble By was published in 1966, More Tales to Tremble By in 1968.) For anyone interested, the contents are:
Tales to Tremble By:
"The Hand", by Guy de Maupassant
"The Middle Toe of the Right Foot", by Ambrose Bierce
"No. 1 Branch Line, The Signalman", by Charles Dickens
"Adventure of the German Student", by Washington Irving
"The Sutor of Selkirk", Anonymous
"The Upper Berth", by F. Marion Crawford
"The Judge's House", by Bram Stoker
More Tales to Tremble By:
"The Red Lodge", by H. Russell Wakefield
"Sredni Vashtar", by Saki
"Thurnley Abbey", by Perceval Landon
"God Grante That She Lye Stille", by Cynthia Asquith
"The Voice in the Night", by William Hope Hodgson
"The Extra Passenger", by August Derleth
"Casting the Runes", by M. R. James
"The Book", by Margaret Irwin
Not at all a bad selection to introduce some quality weird writing to the younger generation... if they've the attention span for it....