American Supernatural Tales (Penguin Horror)

by S T Joshi

  First collection: Lonesome Places (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1962).

  Text: Lonesome Places (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1962).

  Fritz Leiber: “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”

  First publication: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: Avon, 1949).

  First collection: The Secret Songs (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968).

  Text: Fritz Leiber, Horrible Imaginings, ed. John Pelan (Seattle: Midnight House, 2004).

  Ray Bradbury: “The Fog Horn”

  First publication: Saturday Evening Post (June 23, 1951).

  First collection: The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953).

  Text: Ray Bradbury, The Stories of Ray Bradbury (New York: Knopf, 1980).

  Shirley Jackson: “A Visit”

  First publication: New World Writing no. 2 (1952) (As “The Lovely House”).

  First collection: Come Along with Me, ed. Stanley Edgar Hyman (New York: Viking Press, 1968).

  Text: New World Writing no. 2 (1952).

  Richard Matheson: “Long Distance Call”

  First publication: Beyond Fantasy Fiction (November 1953).

  First collection: Shock! (New York: Dell, 1961).

  Text: Richard Matheson, Collected Stories (Santa Cruz, CA: Scream/Press, 1989).

  Charles Beaumont: “The Vanishing American”

  First publication: Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1955).

  First collection: The Hunger and Other Stories (New York: Putnam, 1957).

  Text: Charles Beaumont, Selected Stories, ed. Roger Anker (Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988).

  T. E. D. Klein: “The Events at Poroth Farm”

  First publication: From Beyond the Dark Gateway (December 1972).

  First collection: The Events at Poroth Farm (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1990).

  Text: Reassuring Tales (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007).

  Stephen King: “Night Surf”

  First publication: Cavalier (August 1974).

  First collection: Night Shift (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978).

  Text: Night Shift (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978).

  Dennis Etchison: “The Late Shift”

  First publication: Dark Forces, ed. Kirby McCauley (New York: Viking, 1980).

  First collection: The Dark Country (Santa Cruz, CA: Scream/Press, 1982).

  Text: Dennis Etchison, Talking in the Dark: Selected Stories (Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, 2001).

  Thomas Ligotti: “Vastarien”

  First publication: Crypt of Cthulhu (St. John’s Eve 1987).

  First collection: Songs of a Dead Dreamer, revised edition (London: Robinson, 1989).

  Text: Songs of a Dead Dreamer, revised edition (London: Robinson, 1989).

  Karl Edward Wagner: “Endless Night”

  First publication: The Architecture of Fear, ed. Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (New York: Arbor House, 1987).

  First collection: Unthreatened by the Morning Light (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1989).

  Text: Karl Edward Wagner, Exorcisms and Ecstasies, ed. Stephen Jones (Minneapolis, MN: Fedogan & Bremer, 1997).

  Norman Partridge: “The Hollow Man”

  First publication: Grue Magazine (Fall 1991).

  First collection: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists (San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2001).

  Text: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists (San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2001).

  David J. Schow: “Last Call for the Sons of Shock”

  First publication: David J. Schow, Black Leather Required (Shingle-town, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1994).

  Text: Black Leather Required (Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1994).

  Joyce Carol Oates: “Demon”

  First publication: Joyce Carol Oates, Demon and Other Tales (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996).

  Text: Demon and Other Tales (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996).

  Caitlín R. Kiernan: “In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888)”

  First publication: Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tales of Pain and Wonder (Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Press, 2000).

  Text: Caitlín R. Kiernan, To Charles Fort, with Love (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2005).

  * Watson, Dr. Percival, Spallanzani, and especially the Bishop of Landaff.—See “Chemical Essays,” vol. v.

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