Ray Bradbury – The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury – The Illustrated Man   (Panther, 1977)

Peter Goodfellow

Prologue: The Illustrated Man
The Veld
Kaleidoscope
The Other Foot
The Highway
The Man
The Long Rain
Usher II
The Last Night Of The World
The Rocket
No Particular Night Or Morning
The Fox And The Forest
The Visitor
Marionettes, Inc.
The City
Zero Hour
The Playground
Epilogue

Blurb:
He was a big man. Massive. And every inch of him was illustrated. When his flesh twitched the colours burned in three dimensions. And the people moved, the tiny mouths flickered and voices rose, small and muted. Sixteen illustrations, sixteen tales. The first illustration quivered and came to life …  

Ray Bradbury – Long After Midnight

Ray Bradbury – Long After Midnight  (Panther, 1978)

The Blue Bottle
One Timeless Spring
The Parrot Who Met Papa
The Burning Man
A Piece of Wood
The Messiah
G.B.S.-Mark V
The Utterly Perfect Murder
Punishment Without Crime
Getting Through Sunday Somehow
Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds
Interval in Sunlight
A Story of Love
The Wish
Forever and the Earth
The Better Part of Wisdom
Darling Adolf
The Miracles of Jamie
The October Game
The Pumpernickel
Long After Midnight
Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!

Blurb
A SELECTION OF SPECIALITIES FROM THE MASTER OF FANTASY AND HORROR…

A crazy scheme to bring peace to the world – with the aid of rust; … a Martian that could be Jesus; an author, plucked from the grave to write a novel thwarted by death and Melissa Toad, the mysterious witch of New York…

This latest collection from Ray Bradbury takes you everywhere from a priest’s confessional box to the surface of Mars – here is an anthology that puts an end to all the loose talk about truth being stranger than fiction.

Gillian Tindall – A Handbook On Witches

Gillian Tindall – A Handbook On Witches   (Panther, 1967)

Cover illustration: Michael Leonard

Blurb
WHAT WITCHES DO WHEN THEY MEET
WHAT IS THE `SHAMEFUL KISS’?
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN WITCHCRAFT AND PHALLIC WORSHIP
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BROOMSTICK
CAULDRONS, CHARMS, SPELLS AND PROPHYLACTICS
FAMOUS WITCH TRIALS
WHAT HAPPENS AT A WITCHES SABBATH?
LIVES OF FAMOUS WITCHES… INCLUDING THE FEARFUL CASE OF ISOBEL GOWDIE
WHO PLAYED THE PART OF THE DEVIL AT WITCHES’ FEASTS … THE NOTORIOUS MAN IN BLACK?

A HANDBOOK OF WITCHES … a super cool factual look at an inflammatory subject too often shrouded in hysteria and emotion, specially written for the general reader, covering all aspects of witches and, their lore … from dill water to elf-bolts, grimoires to prickers…

`HIGHLY READABLE … THIS BOOK SHOULD GO FAR TOWARDS SATISFYING THE NATIONAL THIRST FOR THE SINISTER’— Observer
`MANY GRISLY ANECDOTES’ — Sunday Telegraph

Simon Raven – Doctors Wear Scarlet

Simon Raven – Doctors Wear Scarlet  (Panther, 1967)

Blurb
This deliberately outrageous novel deserves to be read even by those who will find that they detest it – Guardian
Obviously destined to be the most smashing popular success since Sapper – Spectator
It terrifies, it sometimes nauseates but it demonstrates one thing triumphantly. Mr. Raven can write – The Times
This is story-telling as it ought to be …. it is not, however, for the squeamish … Bram Stoker himself could not have provided more dark shocks – Books & Bookmen
A climax that is definitely X-certificate – Yorkshire Evening Post