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Monster festival / edited by Eric Protter ; illustrated by Edward Gorey.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PN6071.H727 M66 1965
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Protter, Eric, editor.
Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000, illustrator.
Tehon, Atha.
Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Horror tales.
Genre:
Horror tales.
Short stories.
Penn Provenance:
Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
Tehon, Susan (donor)
Physical Description:
286 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1965]
Contents:
What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien
Impulse / Eric Frank Russell
Podolo / L. P. Hartley
Moonlight sonata / Alexander Woollcott
Revelations in black / Carl Jacobi
The thing in the cellar / David H. Keller
The novel of the white powder / Arthur Machen
Thirteen at table / Lord Dunsany
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe
The refugee / Jane Rice
The squaw / Bram Stoker
Caterpillars / E. F. Benson
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The judge's house / Bram Stoker
A diagnosis of death / Ambrose Bierce
Brenda / Margaret St. Clair
The deferred appointment / Algernon Blackwood
The lost room / Fitz-James O'Brien.
Notes:
"An Edward Ernest book."
Designed by Atha Tehon.
"Mr. Protter is especially pleased to have been able to re-introduce ... two stories by Fitz-James O'Brien, the brilliant Irish-born author who died in the American Civil War at the age of thirty-four and who has been regarded by some as another Edgar Allan Poe."--Dust jacket.
Local Notes:
Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
OCLC:
1019840

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