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Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural

Marvin Kaye & Saralee Kaye

First published 1985
Publisher Doubleday / SFBC
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Catalog ID 5144
Cover art Edward Gorey
Pages xv+623
Price $6.98

  • "Book Club Edition" printed at the bottom of the front flap of the dustjacket indicates a printing by Doubleday for its various book clubs.
  • The book itself appears to be a trade edition for the following reasons:
    • Copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. In 1985, this wasn't done in book club editions.
    • An ISBN (0-385-18549-9) and LCCN (84-24710) are stated on the copyright page. Again, this wasn't the common practice for book club editions in 1985.
    • Almost all original editions published by Doubleday for its book clubs ordinarily would be under their Nelson Doubleday imprint.
    • Locus1 gives this as the first edition, and the 1991 Dorset edition was the first trade edition.
  • Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for May 1985.
  • No printed price or stated date of publication. Both given here are taken from Locus1.
  • "5144" printed at the bottom on the back of the dustjacket.
  • Gutter code "P014" on page 622 indicates a printing in April 1985.
  • Cover and spine of the dustjacket only credits Marvin Kaye. The title page credits state "Selected by Marvin Kaye (over) With Saralee Kaye"

Year Reviewer Publication
1985 Michael A. Morrison Fantasy Review, August 1985

No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Fiends and Creatures Marvin Kaye Essay
3 Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker Short Story
14 The Professor's Teddy Bear Theodore Sturgeon Short Story
24 Bubnoff and the Devil Ivan Turgenev Short Story
31 The Quest for Blank Claveringi Patricia Highsmith Short Story
44 The Erl-King Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem
46 The Bottle Imp Robert Louis Stevenson Novelette
71 A Malady of Magicks Craig Shaw Gardner Short Story
86 Lan Lung M. Lucie Chin Novelette
106 The Dragon Over Hackensack Richard L. Wexelblat Poem
107 The Transformation Mary W. Shelley Short Story
122 The Faceless Thing Edward D. Hoch Short Story
127 Lovers and Other Monsters Marvin Kaye Essay
129 The Anchor Jack Snow Short Story
134 When the Clock Strikes Tanith Lee Short Story
149 Oshidori Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
151 Carmilla Sheridan LeFanu Novella
214 Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory Orson Scott Card Novelette
229 Lenore Gottfried August Bürger Poem
237 The Black Wedding Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Story
245 Hop-Frog Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
254 Sardonicus Ray Russell Novelette
286 Graveyard Shift Richard Matheson Short Story
291 Wake Not the Dead Johann Ludwig Tieck (in error) Novelette
314 Night and Silence Maurice Level Short Story
319 Acts of God and Other Horrors Marvin Kaye Essay
321 Flies Isaac Asimov Short Story
328 The Night Wire H. F. Arnold Short Story
335 Last Respects Dick Baldwin Short Story
340 The Pool of the Stone God A. Merritt Short Story
344 A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor Ogden Nash Poem
348 The Tree Dylan Thomas Short Story
355 Stroke of Mercy Parke Godwin Novelette
374 Lazarus Leonid Andreyev Short Story
391 The Beast Within Marvin Kaye Essay
393 The Waxwork Ex-Private X Short Story
404 The Silent Couple Pierre Courtois Short Story
408 Moon-Face Jack London Short Story
413 Death in the School-Room Walt Whitman Short Story
419 The Upturned Face Stephen Crane Short Story
423 One Summer Night Ambrose Bierce Short Story
425 The Easter Egg H. H. Munro Short Story
429 The House in Goblin Wood John Dickson Carr Novelette
448 The Vengeance of Nitocris Tennessee Williams Short Story
459 The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew Damon Runyon Short Story
472 His Unconquerable Enemy W. C. Morrow Short Story
481 Rizpah Lord Alfred Tennyson Poem
486 The Question Stanley Ellin Short Story
495 Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares Marvin Kaye Essay
497 The Flayed Hand Guy de Maupassant Short Story
502 The Hospice Robert Aickman Novelette
533 The Christmas Banquet Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
549 The Hungry House Robert Bloch Novelette
566 The Demon of the Gibbet Fitz-James O'Brien Poem
568 The Owl Anatole Le Braz Short Fiction
575 No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince Ralph Adams Cram Short Story
588 The Music of Erich Zann H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
596 Riddles in the Dark J. R. R. Tolkien Short Story
609 Afterword: Is Terror a Dying Art? Marvin Kaye Essay
615 Miscellaneous Notes (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural) Marvin Kaye Essay
619 Selected Bibliography (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural) Marvin Kaye Essay
xiii Introduction: In Search of Masterpieces Marvin Kaye Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Cover 1985 Doubleday Hardcover Anthology Edward Gorey xv+623
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1990 Dorset Press Hardcover Anthology Edward Gorey xv+623
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural 1991 Macdonald Paperback Anthology Ashley Pearce xiii+658
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural Cover 1992 Warner Books UK Trade Paperback Anthology Ashley Pearce xiii+658