H. P. Lovecraft – Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

H. P. Lovecraft –  Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (Panther, 1969)

Dagon
Polaris
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The White Ship
The Cats of Ulthar
Celephaïs
From Beyond
The Temple
The Tree
The Other Gods
The Quest of Iranon
Herbert West – Reanimator
Hypnos

Supernatural Horror in Literature
Complete Chronology

Thanks to Severance of Vault for providing the cover scan.

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Penelope Gilliatt – One By One

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

John Knowler – The Trap

John Knowler – 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

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.