Karloff was
the stage-name of the British-born actor William Henry Pratt, and
was isbest-known for his portrayal of the monster in
Frankenstein (1931). His name was put to three horror
anthologies, some of which were reprinted with pared-down
contents.
Anthologies edited by Boris Karloff
Tales
of Terror, World (New York), 1943
(Including:
"Introduction", "The Waxwork" by A. M. Burrage, "Clay-Shuttered
Doors" by Helen R. Hull, "The Judge's House" by B. Stoker, "The
Damned Thing" by A. Bierce, "The Tarn" by H. Walpole, "The
Furnished Room" by O. Henry, "Our Feathered Friends" by P.
MacDonald, "Father Macclesfield's Tale" by R. H. Benson, "The
Hound" by William Faulkner, "The Tell-Tale Heart" by F. A. Poe,
"Amy Foster" by I. Conrad, "The Beast With Five Fingers" by W. F.
Harvey, "The Willows" by A. Blackwood, "The Beckoning Fair One" by
Oliver Onions.
And the
Darkness Falls, World (New York), 1946
(Including:
"Introduction" by Karloff, "The Test" by Maurice Level, " 'John
Gladwin Says . . ' " by Oliver Onions, "The Black Pool" by
Frederick Stuart Greene, "The Scoop" by Leonora Gregory, "Femme et
Chatte" by Paul Verlaine, "The Hanging of Alfred Wadham" by E. F.
Benson, "The Departure" by Selma Robinson, "The Adventure of
Second Lieut. Bubnov" by Ivan Turgenev, "In the Wheat" by Maurice
Level, "The Madman" by de Maupassant, "The Storm" by McKnight
Malmar, "L'Amour apres la Mort" by Lafcadio Hearn, "Rizpah" by
Tennyson, "One Who Saw" by Ex-Private-X, "My Favourite Murder" by
Ambrose Bierce, "The Grove of Ashtaroth" by John Buchan, "The Case
of Lady Sannox" by Conan Doyle, "The Black Godmother" by John
Galsworthy, "The Stranger" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Panelled Room"
by August Derleth, "The Mask" by F. Tennyson Jesse, "Richard Cory"
by Edward Arlington Robinson, "The Witness" by Violet Hunt, "The
Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban" by William B. Seabrook,
"Footsteps" by Eileen Verrinder, "The Island" by L.P. Hartley,
"The Red Lodge" by H. R. Wakefield, "The Cyprian Cat" by Dorothy
L. Sayers, "An Official Position" by W. Somerset Maugham, "The
Garden of Prosperine" by Swinburne, "Little Louise Roque" by de
Maupassant, "The Sutor of Selkirk" by Anonymous, "The Idol with
Hands of Clay" by Sir Frederick Treves, "Another American Tragedy"
by John Collier, "The Razor of Pedro Dutel" by Richard Matthews
Hallet, "The Cruicifixion of the Outcast" by W. B. Yeats,
"Ulalume" by Poe, "Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched" by May
Sinclair, "The Ghost" by Richard Hughes, "Jenshih, or the Fox
Lady, Shen Chi-Chi" [translation], "Three O'Clock" by William
Irish, "The Mortal" by Oliver Onions, "The Listeners" by Walter de
la Mare, "The Well" by W. W. Jacobs, "The Horrible God" by Thomas
Burke, "Mrs Adis" by Sheila Kaye-Smith, "Telling" by Elizabeth
Bowen, "The Dead of the Poor" by Beaudelaire, "A Maniac" by
Maurice Level, "An Illusion in Red and White" by Stephen Crane, "A
Modest Proposal" by Jonathn Swift, "The Chaser" by John Collier,
"Where the Tides Ebb and Flow" by Lord Dunsany, "My Last Duchess"
by Robert Browning, "Out of the Deep" by Walter de la Mare,
"Perchance to Dream" by Michael Joyce, "The Empty House" by
Maurice Level, "Browdean Farm" by A. M. Burrage, "Breakdown" by L.
A. G. Strong, "The Weird of Avoosi Wuthoqquan" by Clark Ashton
Smith, "The Angelus" by William Younger, "Song of the Shirt" by
Tom Hood, "The Silver Mask" by Hugh Walpole, "The Viy"
[translation], "Death" by Dorothy Richardson, "Prospice" by Robert
Browning, "The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood, "The
Brute" by Joseph Conrad, "The Thing on the Doorstep" by H. P.
Lovecraft.)
Boris
Karloff Horror Anthology, Souvenir (London),
1965
(Includes: "The
Thirteenth Floor" by Frank Gruber, "Child of the Winds" by Edmond
Hamilton, "The Opener of the Crypt" by I. lakes, "The Thing That
Walked on the Wind" by August Derleth, "The Scarlet King" by Evan
Hunter, "The Graveyard Reader" by Theodore Sturgeon, "The
Mindworm" by C. M. Kombluth, "Back From the Grave" by Robert
Silverberg, "The Man From the South" by Roald DahI, "The Opener of
the Way" by Robert Bloch, "The Haunter of the Dark" by H. P.
Lovecraft, "The Cask of Amontillado" by E. A. Poe.)
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