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Tales of the Dead

Bill Pronzini

First published 1986
Publisher Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers
Format Hardcover
Type Omnibus
Cover art Dennis Luzack
Pages 711
Price $11.50
ISBN 0517618184

Copyright © 1980, 1981 by Bill Pronzini. This has 37 tales of terror. It drops "White Rabbit" by Joe R. Lansdale. Cover artist on back flap of Archive.org copy. Printed and bound in the United States of America.

Year Reviewer Publication
1987 uncredited Shudder Stories, #6 May 1987

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Preface (The Arbor House Necropolis) Bill Pronzini Essay
19 Introduction (Voodoo!) Bill Pronzini Essay
33 Papa Benjamin Cornell Woolrich Novelette
77 "... Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields" W. B. Seabrook Short Story
89 Mother of Serpents Robert Bloch Short Story
101 The Digging at Pistol Key Carl Jacobi Short Story
118 Seven Turns in a Hangman's Rope Henry S. Whitehead Novella
179 The Isle of Voices Robert Louis Stevenson Novelette
201 Powers of Darkness John Russell Short Story
216 Exú Edward D. Hoch Short Story
223 Seventh Sister Mary Elizabeth Counselman Short Story
244 The Devil Doll Bryce Walton Short Story
254 Kundu (excerpt) Morris West Short Story
271 The Candidate Henry Slesar Short Story
283 Introduction (Mummy!) Bill Pronzini Essay
301 Lot No. 249 Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
337 Some Words with a Mummy Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
356 Monkeys E. F. Benson Short Story
374 Bones Donald A. Wollheim Short Story
382 The Vengeance of Nitocris Tennessee Williams Short Story
397 The Mummy's Foot Théophile Gautier Short Story
410 The Eyes of the Mummy Robert Bloch Short Story
429 Charlie Talmage Powell Short Story
447 The Weekend Magus Edward D. Hoch Short Story
459 The Princess Joe R. Lansdale Short Story
474 The Eagle-Claw Rattle Ardath Mayhar Short Story
482 The Other Room Charles L. Grant Novelette
503 Revelation in Seven Stages Barry N. Malzberg Short Story
511 Introduction (Ghoul!) Bill Pronzini Essay
523 The Edinburgh Landlady Aubrey Davidson Poem
525 The Body-Snatchers Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
546 The Loved Dead C. M. Eddy, Jr. Short Story
559 Indigestion Barry N. Malzberg Short Story
569 The Chadbourne Episode Henry S. Whitehead Short Story
586 Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Short Story
600 Quietly Now Charles L. Grant Novelette
629 The Ghoul Sir Hugh Clifford Short Story
644 The Spherical Ghoul Fredric Brown Novelette
671 Corpus Delectable L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt Short Story
681 Memento Mori Bill Pronzini Short Story
689 Gray Matter Stephen King Short Story
703 Bibliography (The Arbor House Necropolis) Bill Pronzini Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Tales of the Dead Cover 1987 Book Club Associates Hardcover Omnibus CN3488 Dennis Luzack 711