Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales
| Author | : Henry St. Clair Whitehead |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1944 |
| Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Supernatural tales of the Virgin Islands.
Jumbee And Other Uncanny Tales
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Arkham House Books
| Author | : Leon Nielsen |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2015-02-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1476603227 |
This reference work covers the supernatural and speculative fiction published by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., of Sauk City, Wisconsin. In 1937, promising Wisconsin writer August Derleth decided to publish a collection of the stories of his recently deceased friend, H. P. Lovecraft. After two years of failed attempts, Derleth and another Lovecraft fan, Donald Wandrei, published the collection themselves under the name of Arkham. In the years that followed, Arkham House published the works of many of the foremost American and British writers of weird fiction, including Basil Copper, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, and Robert Bloch. Arkham published Ray Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival, in 1947. The work begins with a history of the house and biography of August Derleth; it also includes a chapter on H. P. Lovecraft's connection to Arkham. The main body of the text consists of chronologically listed descriptions and current values of the more than 230 titles published by Arkham House and its two imprints, Mycroft & Moran and Stanton & Lee. These entries detail editions, reprints, special points, restoration, care, buying and selling, investment, and future trends. Other features include alphabetical indeces of titles and authors, lists of scarcity and value ranking, a list of annual stock lists and catalogs, and a bibliography of reference literature. The book is illustrated throughout with dust jacket reproductions and photographs.
The Big Book of Ghost Stories
| Author | : Otto Penzler |
| Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Total Pages | : 850 |
| Release | : 2012-12-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 034580600X |
Over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in book form. Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these stories are guaranteed to thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep you turning the pages with fearful delight. Including such classics as “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Open Window” and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore! AlsoFeaturing haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore!
Jumbee and Other Voodoo Tales
| Author | : Henry St Clair Whitehead |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Short stories, English |
| ISBN | : 9780583126526 |
The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK®, Vol. 1: Henry S. Whitehead
| Author | : Henry S. Whitehead |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2015-01-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1479404810 |
Wildside Press's new line of MEGAPACKTM ebook anthologies focusing on 20th Century masters of Weird Fiction gets off to a great start with this new selection of tales by Henry S. Whitehead, famed Weird Tales contributor. Whitehead, who penned dozens of stories over the course of his career, set many of them with a West Indies theme. His tales of "jumbees" (zombies) represent some of the earliest zombie stories in literature. Included in this volume are: The "Gerald Canevin" series: THE PROJECTION OF ARMAND DUBOIS THE PEOPLE OF PAN BLACK TANCREDE CASSIUS THE TRAP (with H. P. Lovecraft) THE NAPIER LIMOUSINE THE GREAT CIRCLE Other tales: JUMBEE THE SHADOWS SEA TIGER THE MOON DIAL SWEET GRASS ACROSS THE GULF THE TABERNACLE THE LIPS If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the more than 180 other entries in the series, covering science fiction, modern authors, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!
Voodoo Tales
| Author | : Henry S. Whitehead |
| Publisher | : Wordsworth |
| Total Pages | : 1062 |
| Release | : 2012-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781848703124 |
‘And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its red tongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lips drawn back in a murderous snarl…’ Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world of voodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of the living are racked by the spirits of the dead. In this collection of rare and out of print stories you will encounter the curses of the great Guinea-Snake, the Sheen, the weredog whose very touch means certain death, the curious tale of the ‘magicked’ mirror, and fiendish manikins who make life a living hell. Included in this festival of shivering fear is the remarkable narrative ‘Williamson’ which every editor who read the story shied away from publishing. With deceptive simplicity and chilling realism, Whitehead’s Voodoo Talesare amongst the most frightening ever written.
A Dreamer and a Visionary
| Author | : S. T. Joshi |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0853239460 |
"H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognised as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his lifetime, become such an icon in horror literature? S. T. Joshi, the leading authority on Lovecraft, has traced in detail the course of Lovecraft's life, spent largely in Providence, Rhode Island, and has shown how Lovecraft was engaged in the political, economic, social, and intellectual currents of his time, and how his developing thought informed his fiction and other writings. Lovecraft's reaction to World War I, the Jazz Age, and the Depression, as well as to literary modernism and scientific advance, markedly affected his thought and work, so that by the end of his life he had become both a 'mechanistic materialist' and a 'cosmic regionalist' who looked to his New England heritage as a bulwark against the meaninglessness of a godless cosmos. It was the wonder and terror of that cosmos that Lovecraft depicted, with poetic grandeur, in his work." --Book Jacket.
Horror Literature through History [2 volumes]
| Author | : Matt Cardin |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 1065 |
| Release | : 2017-09-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1440842027 |
This two-volume set offers comprehensive coverage of horror literature that spans its deep history, dominant themes, significant works, and major authors, such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Anne Rice, as well as lesser-known horror writers. Many of today's horror story fans—who appreciate horror through movies, television, video games, graphic novels, and other forms—probably don't realize that horror literature is not only one of the most popular types of literature but one of the oldest. People have always been mesmerized by stories that speak to their deepest fears. Horror Literature through History shows 21st-century horror fans the literary sources of their favorite entertainment and the rich intrinsic value of horror literature in its own right. Through profiles of major authors, critical analyses of important works, and overview essays focused on horror during particular periods as well as on related issues such as religion, apocalypticism, social criticism, and gender, readers will discover the fascinating early roots and evolution of horror writings as well as the reciprocal influence of horror literature and horror cinema. This unique two-volume reference set provides wide coverage that is current and compelling to modern readers—who are of course also eager consumers of entertainment. In the first section, overview essays on horror during different historical periods situate works of horror literature within the social, cultural, historical, and intellectual currents of their respective eras, creating a seamless narrative of the genre's evolution from ancient times to the present. The second section demonstrates how otherwise unrelated works of horror have influenced each other, how horror subgenres have evolved, and how a broad range of topics within horror—such as ghosts, vampires, religion, and gender roles—have been handled across time. The set also provides alphabetically arranged reference entries on authors, works, and specialized topics that enable readers to zero in on information and concepts presented in the other sections.
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
| Author | : John Clute |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 1110 |
| Release | : 1999-03-15 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780312198695 |
Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Tales of the Jumbee and Other Wonders of the West Indies
| Author | : Henry S. Whitehead |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2009-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1434404110 |
Collected here are eight of Henry S. Whitehead's creepy tales of magic and voodoo: "Jumbee" (Weird Tales, 1926), "The Shadows" (Weird Tales, 1927), "Cassius" (Strange Tales, 1931), "Black Tancrede" (Weird Tales, 1929), "Sweet Grass" (Weird Tales, 1929), "Mrs. Lorriquer" (Weird Tales, 1932), "The Passing of a God" (Weird Tales, 1931), and "Hill Drums" (Weird Tales, 1931).
