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The Monster Book of Monsters

Michael O'Shaughnessy

First published 1988
Publisher Xanadu
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Hannes Bok
Pages 352
Price £9.95
ISBN 094776142X

'Jacket illustration by Hannes Bok' on the back flap. Twelve stories have an illustration, some new and some of them from the original magazine publication.

Page Title Author(s) Type
5 Introduction: Here Be Monsters (The Monster Book of Monsters) Michael O'Shaughnessy Essay
9 Vault of the Beast A. E. van Vogt Novelette
26 We Never Mention Aunt Nora Paul Flehr Short Story
33 Last Rites Charles Beaumont Short Story
44 And Lo! the Bird Nelson S. Bond Short Story
53 The Black Retriever Charles G. Finney Short Story
60 The Bird Woman Henry Spicer Short Story
62 The Hoard of the Gibbelins Lord Dunsany Short Story
65 Answer Fredric Brown Short Story
66 The Painted Skin P'u Sung-Ling Short Story
69 The Monster and the Maiden Roger Zelazny Short Story
71 The Devil Is Not Mocked Manly Wade Wellman Short Story
77 Puppet Show Fredric Brown Short Story
84 At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein Harry Harrison Short Story
90 Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Short Story
98 Island of Fear William Sambrot Short Story
105 Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends Robert Sheckley Short Story
112 The Mother of Monsters Guy de Maupassant Short Story
115 The Man Who Liked Dickens Evelyn Waugh Short Story
126 Monsters of the Pit Paul S. Powers Short Story
136 Expendable Philip K. Dick Short Story
140 The Demon Spell Hume Nisbet Short Story
145 Born of Man and Woman Richard Matheson Short Story
148 The Thing on Outer Shoal P. Schuyler Miller Short Story
156 After King Kong Fell Philip José Farmer Short Story
165 The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth Roger Zelazny Novelette
189 Leprechaun William Sambrot Short Story
193 Men of Iron Guy Endore Short Story
199 The Lop-Eared Cat That Devoured Philadelphia Louis Phillips Poem
200 Flight Useless, Inexorable the Pursuit Thomas M. Disch Short Story
203 Ghost V Robert Sheckley Short Story
215 Slime Joseph Payne Brennan Novelette
231 They Bite Anthony Boucher Short Story
239 The Foghorn Ray Bradbury Short Story
246 The Plant-Thing R. G. Macready Short Story
251 The Conqueror Worm Edgar Allan Poe Poem
253 The Fools' Pope (excerpt from Notre Dame de Paris) Victor Hugo Short Fiction
259 Rex Harl Vincent Short Story
272 Roman Remains Algernon Blackwood Short Story
278 The Distortion Out of Space Francis Flagg Short Story
287 Mr. Waterman Peter Redgrove Short Story
290 The End of a Show Barry Pain Short Story
293 Mujina Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
294 She Only Goes Out at Night William Tenn Short Story
298 Mother of Serpents Robert Bloch Short Story
305 Sweets to the Sweet Robert Bloch Short Story
311 Wolves Don't Cry Bruce Elliott Short Story
319 Looking for Something to Suck R. Chetwynd-Hayes Short Story
329 The Professor's Teddy-Bear Theodore Sturgeon Short Story
337 Creature of the Snows William Sambrot Short Story
344 Lips of the Dead W. J. Stamper Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Monster Book of Monsters Cover 1988 Bonanza Books Hardcover Anthology Hannes Bok 352