Penelope Gilliatt – One By One (Panther, 1967)

Cover: Sid Sutton

Blurb:
A CITY TORN APART BY MADNESS, FEAR, SAVAGERY AND DISILLUSION …

300 years after the Black Death, London is once again an isolated, panic-stricken city of the dying and the dead    …. in the grip of a fearsome plague that has killed 10,000 people by the third week of August.

The boffins are baffled. The PM returns from his grouse moors …

Theatres and cinemas close; the football pools continue by ballot .. .

Afraid of infection, men stop making love to their wives. Out-of-work prostitutes turn to collecting corpses …

BUT MOST EXTRAORDINARY OF ALL IS WHAT HAPPENS TO JOE AND POLLY, AN ORDINARY HAPPILY MARRIED COUPLE, DURING THAT APOCALYPTIC SUMMER OF CLEAR BLUE SKIES AND ROTTING FLESH

“Almost uncannily readable” – Sunday Telegraph

Jules Verne – Carpathian Castle (Panther, Sept. 1963)

Blurb:

THE BRINK OF FEAR …
A cry escaped him; then throwing himself back, as if he had been struck by lightning, he slipped along the chain, which instinct made him hang on to, and rolled down, down . . ..
CARPATHIAN CASTLE…
deep in the impenetrable depths of the Transylvanian forest stood its massive creeper covered walls — a challenge to the world of the alien mortals . . . .
A CLASSIC MASTERPIECE OF GOTHIC HORROR BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA’

PANTHER BOOKS
THE NAME THAT ENSURES GOOD READING

Lin Carter – Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos (Panther, 1975: originally Ballantine, US, 1972)

Blurb:
The Legend of Dread Cthulhu ….

Lovecraft’s brilliant creation of an occult dimension of horror swarming with such monstrous entities as dread Cthulhu, Yog-Sogoth, Azathoth and other malign supernatural beings has captured the imagination of millions of readers all over the world.

Lin Carter is one of the greatest authorities of our time on adult fantasy and an accomplished author of fantastic fiction in his own right. Here he gives us a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Lovecraft himself and at the creation of the haunting mythos that must rank as this century’s greatest addition to the world’s store of supernatural tiction.

Thanks to James Diog for the cover scan!

John Knowles – The Trap (Panther, 1966)

Blurb:

An electrifying masterpiece of the macabre.

Mary Baxter, young and innocent, an English suburban rose, goes to work for Wilhelm Schmidt, moody and passionate, an antiquarian bookseller who has a flourishing side-line in erotica. The results of their confrontation are electrifying. Mary’s fresh, prosaic and breathless innocence is brought into contact with an alien and forbidden range of experience: sharp practice, lust, incest, and finally suicide ….

Robert E. Howard – The Valley Of The Worm (Panther, 1976)

August Derleth – Foreword

Robert E. Howard – Which Will Be Scarcely Understood (verse)
H P Lovecraft – Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam

The Fire Of Asshurbanipal
A Man-Eating Jeopard
Worms Of The Earth
Kings Of The Night
The Valley Of The Worm
Skulls In The Stars
Rattle Of Bones
The Hills Of The Dead
Wings In The Night

Blurb: A classic collection of tales from the Golden Age of fantasy and horror.

Robert E Howard – creator of some of the greatest worlds of heroic fantasy and nightmare horror ever conceived by the mind of man

H P Lovecraft descrived Howard as a master of ‘description of vast megalithic cities of the elder world, around whose dark towers and labyrinthine nether vaults linger an aura of pre-human fear and necromancy which no other writer could duplicate.’

In the three volumes of Skull-Face Omnibus published by Panther Books you will find a nerve-tautening gallery of tales of superhuman savagery and supernatural evil. Journey back into long-lost eons of time and across the frontiers of the occult with one of the greatest fantasy masters of the century, Robert E Howard.

Robert E. Howard – The Shadow Kingdom (Panther, 1976)

August Derleth – Foreword

Robert E. Howard – Which Will Be Scarcely Understood (verse)
H P Lovecraft – Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam

The Hyborian Age
The Shadow Kingdom
The Mirrors Of Tuzun Thune
The Phoenix On The Sword
The Scarlet Citadel
The Tower Of The Elephant
Rogues In The House
Shadows In Zamboula
Lines Written In The Realisation That I Must Die (verse)

Blurb: A classic collection of tales from the Golden Age of fantasy and horror.

Robert E Howard – creator of some of the greatest worlds of heroic fantasy and nightmare horror ever conceived by the mind of man

H P Lovecraft descrived Howard as a master of ‘description of vast megalithic cities of the elder world, around whose dark towers and labyrinthine nether vaults linger an aura of pre-human fear and necromancy which no other writer could duplicate.’

In the three volumes of Skull-Face Omnibus published by Panther Books you will find a nerve-tautening gallery of tales of superhuman savagery and supernatural evil. Journey back into long-lost eons of time and across the frontiers of the occult with one of the greatest fantasy masters of the century, Robert E Howard.

Laurette Naomi Pizer (ed.) – Great Psychological Stories (Panther, 1967)

D H Lawrence – Mother and Daughter
Willa Cather – Paul’s Case
Henry James – The Real Thing
Vladimir Nabokov – “That Aleppo Once.”
Ryunosuke Akutagawa – The Handkerchief
Ivan Bunin – Sunstroke
Isaac Bashevis Singer – The Spinoza of Market Street
Colette – The Kepi.

August Derleth (ed.) – H. P. Lovecraft & Others: Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos Vol. 1 (Panther, 1975)

August Derleth – Beyond the Threshold
Robert E Howard – The Black Stone
H P Lovecraft – The Call of Cthulhu
August Derleth – The Dweller in Darkness
J Vernon Shea – The Haunter of the Graveyard
Frank Belknap Long – The Hounds of Tindalos
Clark Ashton Smith – The Return of the Sorcerer
Henry Kuttner – The Salem Horror
Frank Belknap Long – The Space-Eaters
Clark Ashton Smith – Ubbo-Sathla

August Derleth  (ed.) – The Horror in the Burying Ground (Panther, 1975)

Zealia Bishop – The Curse of Yig
C M Eddy – Deaf, Dumb and Blind
H P Lovecraft & Elizabeth Berkeley – The Green Meadow
Hazel Heald – The Horror in the Burying Ground
Sonia Greene – The Invisible Monster
Adolphe de Castro – The Last Test
Hazel Heald – The Man of Stone
Zealia Bishop – Medusa’s Coil
Hazel Heald – Out of the Eons Robert H Barlow – ‘Till All the Seas’
Wilfred Blanch Talman – Two Black Bottles

H. P. Lovecraft – The Haunter Of The Dark (Panther, 1963)

The Outsider
The Rats in the Walls
Pickman’s Model
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in darkness
The Colour out of Space
The Haunter of the Dark
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Music of Erich Zann

Thanks to James Doig for providing the cover scans and contents.

1972 edition: artwork Ian Miller