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Shrieks at Midnight: Macabre Poems, Eerie and Humorous

Sara Brewton & John E. Brewton

First published 1969
Publisher Thomas Y. Crowell
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Ellen Raskin
Pages 177

This entry is for the initial printing. Cover artwork continues on back cover. Index of Authors on pages 167-177. Appending About the Compilers and About the Illustrator. Data from Archive.org copy (second printing) and review in Luna Monthly #13, June 1970.

Year Reviewer Publication
1970 David C. Paskow Luna Monthly, #13, June 1970

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 from An Old Cornish Litany Author Unknown Poem
4 A Skeleton Once in Khartoum Author Unknown Poem
6 The Ghost That Jim Saw Bret Harte Poem
8 The Superstitious Ghost Arthur Guiterman Poem
10 Sir Roderic's Song William Schwenck Gilbert Poem
11 The Cat! Joseph Payne Brennan Poem
12 The Two Wives: A New England Legend Daniel Henderson Poem
13 The Two Old Women of Mumbling Hill James Reeves Poem
14 My Singing Aunt James Reeves Poem
16 The Old Wife and the Ghost James Reeves Poem
21 Cassie O'Lang Judge Poem
21 Epitaph Leslie Mellichamp Poem
21 Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum... Author Unknown Poem
22 Late Last Night Author Unknown Poem
22 The Duel Author Unknown Poem
23 A Ghoulish Old Fellow in Kent Morris Bishop Poem
23 Lines Scratched in Wet Cement Ethel Jacobson Poem
24 Lydia Sherman Author Unknown Poem
24 Quiet Fun Harry Graham Poem
25 Lucy Lake Ogden Nash Poem
26 A Briton Who Shot at His King David Ross Poem
26 A Second Stanza for Dr. Johnson Donald Hall Poem
27 One Good Turn Deserves Another Punch (1841) Poem
27 Résumé Dorothy Parker Poem
28 On Bell-Ringers Voltaire Poem
28 The Salvation of Texas Peters J. W. Foley Poem
32 Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray Poem
33 Faithless Nelly Gray: A Pathetic Ballad Thomas Hood Poem
36 The Outlandish Knight Author Unknown Poem
39 The Briefless Barrister: A Ballad John G. Saxe Poem
45 The Revolving Door Newman Levy Poem
47 Little Willie Author Unknown Poem
48 Clock Time by the Geyser John White Poem
48 Golden Gates Author Unknown Poem
49 A Doctor Fell in a Deep Well Author Unknown Poem
49 Little Willie [2] Author Unknown Poem
50 Bones Walter de la Mare Poem
51 Ezra Shank Whiz Bang Poem
51 Silly Willy R. L. B. Poem
52 At Great Torrington, Devon Author Unknown Poem
52 There Was an Old Lady Named Crockett William Jay Smith Poem
53 He Shot at Lee Wing Author Unknown Poem
53 There Once Was a Young Man Named Hall Author Unknown Poem
54 At Boot Hill in Tombstone, Arizona Author Unknown Poem
54 The Swift Bullets Carolyn Wells Poem
55 Epitaph Richard Armour Poem
55 John Bun Author Unknown Poem
56 Ruth and Johnnie Author Unknown Poem
57 Sally Simpkin's Lament Thomas Hood Poem
59 Hallelujah! A. E. Housman Poem
61 Primer of Consequences Virginia Brasier Poem
63 Atomic Courtesy Ethel Jacobson Poem
64 The Hydrogen Dog and the Cobalt Cat Frederick Winsor Poem
65 Rhymes for a Modern Nursery Paul Dehn Poem
66 Song, on Reading That the Cyclotron Has Produced Cosmic Rays, Blasted the Atom Into Twenty-Two Particles, Solved the Mystery of the Transmutation of Elements and Devil Knows What Samuel Hoffenstein Poem
67 If This Little World To-Night Oliver Herford Poem
71 The Story of Augustus Who Would Not Have Any Soup Heinrich Hoffmann Poem
72 Little Billee William Makepeace Thackeray Poem
74 Folk Song Author Unknown Poem
74 There Was a Young Lady of Ryde Author Unknown Poem
75 The Little Peach Eugene Field Poem
75 Verdancy Author Unknown Poem
77 The Two Old Bachelors Edward Lear Poem
80 Ponjoo Walter de la Mare Poem
81 Commissary Report Stoddard King Poem
82 A Certain Young Man of Great Gumption Author Unknown Poem
83 from Some Little Bug Roy Atwell Poem
84 A Paradox Judge (1894) Poem
84 A Poe-'Em of Passion C. F. Lummis Poem
89 How Doth the Little Crocodile Lewis Carroll Poem
89 The Monkeys and the Crocodile Laura E. Richards Poem
90 Algy Folk Rhyme Poem
91 B Stands for the Bear Hilaire Belloc Poem
92 Little Katy Author Unknown Poem
92 The Lion Vachel Lindsay Poem
93 from Adventures of Isabel Ogden Nash Poem
93 The Lion Ogden Nash Poem
94 A Boston Boy Went Out to Yuma D. D. Poem
94 There Was a Young Lady of Niger Author Unknown Poem
95 The Flattered Flying Fish E. V. Rieu Poem
96 The Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark Wallace Irwin Poem
98 from The Untutored Giraffe Oliver Herford Poem
99 Away with Bloodshed A. E. Housman Poem
100 Little Boys of Texas Robert P. Tristram Coffin Poem
101 The Termite Ogden Nash Poem
102 Lancaster County Tragedy W. Lowrie Kay Poem
102 The Kilkenny Cats Author Unknown Poem
103 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog Oliver Goldsmith Poem
104 On Fell Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Poem
105 On a Monument in France Which Marks the Last Resting Place of an Army Mule Author Unknown Poem
105 The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Author Unknown Poem
111 Similia Similibus John Hunt Morgan Poem
112 Lizzie Borden Author Unknown Poem
113 Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten By a Lion Hilaire Belloc Poem
113 Little Willie [3] Author Unknown Poem
116 Johnny Emma Rounds Poem
118 Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut Off in Dreadful Agonies Hilaire Belloc Poem
119 You'd Say It Was a Funeral James Reeves Poem
120 The Bath Harry Graham Poem
122 Brother and Sister Lewis Carroll Poem
122 The Eel Walter de la Mare Poem
124 The Twins Henry S. Leigh Poem
125 The Purist Ogden Nash Poem
126 On the Wife of a Parish Clerk Author Unknown Poem
126 Wills John G. Saxe Poem
127 A Reasonable Affliction Matthew Prior Poem
127 Aunt Eliza Author Unknown Poem
128 Aunt Maud Author Unknown Poem
128 The Careless Niece Carolyn Wells Poem
129 The Python Hilaire Belloc Poem
130 from Science for the Young Wallace Irwin Poem
130 Poor Grandpa R. C. O'Brien Poem
131 Such a Pleasant Familee Wallace Irwin Poem
135 For a Pessimist Countee Cullen Poem
135 On Seeing a Pompous Funeral for a Bad Husband Author Unknown Poem
136 Donne Redone Joseph Paul Tierney Poem
136 It Isn't the Cough Author Unknown Poem
136 Wake Langston Hughes Poem
137 Madrigal Macabre Samuel Hoffenstein Poem
138 Jerry Jones Author Unknown Poem
139 Hell's Bells Margaret Fishback Poem
139 The Jilted Funeral Gelett Burgess Poem
140 The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert W. Service Poem
145 A Silly Young Fellow Named Hyde Author Unknown Poem
145 Request for Requiems Langston Hughes Poem
149 Joshua Hight Author Unknown Poem
149 The Crusader Dorothy Parker Poem
150 For a Lady I Know Countee Cullen Poem
150 For a Mouthy Woman Countee Cullen Poem
150 On a Puritanicall Lock-Smith William Camden Poem
151 A Curt Addendum Author Unknown Poem
151 Epitaph for Any New Yorker Christopher Morley Poem
155 Epitaph for a Postal Clerk X. J. Kennedy Poem
155 from The Greek Anthology Humbert Wolfe Poem
155 On a Politician Hilaire Belloc Poem
156 Dust to Dust Thomas Hood Poem
156 Here Lies My Wife John Dryden Poem
156 John Coil Author Unknown Poem
157 Epitaph on John Knott Author Unknown Poem
157 On Samuel Pease Author Unknown Poem
158 Stranger Call This Not Author Unknown Poem
158 This Spot Author Unknown Poem
158 Within This Grave Do Lie Author Unknown Poem
159 Grieve Not For Me Author Unknown Poem
160 On an Old Toper Buried in Durham Churchyard, England Author Unknown Poem
160 Thoughts for St. Stephen Christopher Morley Poem
161 Epitaph on the Proofreader of the Encyclopedia Britannica Christopher Morley Poem
162 A Serio-Comic Elegy: Whately on Buckland Archbishop Whately Poem
163 St. Swithin Daniel Henderson Poem
165 Outside the Chancel Door Life Poem
165 Wang Peng's Recommendation for Improving the People Paul Eldridge Poem
116|116.2 Dust Sydney King Russell Poem
3|3.2 The Great Auk's Ghost Ralph Hodgson Poem
47|47.2 In Memory of Anna Hopewell Author Unknown Poem
4|4.2 Spooks Nathalia Crane Poem
63|63.2 Any Day Now David McCord Poem
65|65.2 Mother Goose (Circa 2054) Irene Sekula Poem