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The Beaver Book of Creepy Verse

Ian Woodward & Zenka Woodward

First published 1980
Publisher Beaver Books
Format Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages 144
Price £0.90
ISBN 0600201783

Data from 1981 reprint on Archive.org. Illustrations, artist credit and price on back cover.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Creepy? Ian Woodward & Zenka Woodward Essay
5 All on My Own Brian Lee Poem
6 Who's That? James Kirkup Poem
8 Seeing Creepy Things at Night Eugene Field Poem
10 The Silent Voices Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
11 Gruesome Roger McGough Poem
11 Nasty Night Roy Fuller Poem
12 Bump! Spike Milligan Poem
12 The Dark Roy Fuller Poem
13 The Haunted Child Margaret Mahy Poem
14 The Silent Spinney Seamus Redmond Poem
15 Eeka, Neeka Walter de la Mare Poem
15 House Fear Robert Frost Poem
16 The Listeners Walter de la Mare Poem
16 The Riddle Louis MacNeice Poem
18 Daniel Webster's Horses Elizabeth Coatsworth Poem
19 The Queer Moment Brian Lee Poem
20 Quite in the Dark Brian Lee Poem
22 In the Night James Stephens Poem
22 Night Omens John Cotton (poet) Poem
23 Bad Dream Louis MacNeice Poem
26 Moths and Moonshine James Reeves Poem
26 The Witch's Song Ruth Bedford Poem
28 I Saw Three Witches Walter de la Mare Poem
29 Night Clouds Amy Lowell Poem
30 Old Moll James Reeves Poem
30 Owl Sylvia Read Poem
31 Riddle Ian Serraillier Poem
31 Space Traveller James Nimmo Poem
32 The Ride-by-Nights Walter de la Mare Poem
33 When shall we three meet again? William Shakespeare Poem
34 The Witch's Cat Ian Serraillier Poem
35 Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd William Shakespeare Poem
37 The Little Creature Walter de la Mare Poem
38 The Witch Stepmother unknown Poem
40 Kitchen Song Edith Sitwell Poem
41 Hinx, Minx, the Old Witch Winks unknown Poem
41 Kitchen Song Alexander Resnikoff Poem
42 The Witch's House Laura Benét Poem
43 The Witch Mary Coleridge Poem
44 The Two Witches Robert Graves Poem
44 The Witch D. H. Lawrence Poem
46 Alison Gross Old English Ballad Poem
48 Hallowe'en Leonard Clark Poem
48 Hay-how for Hallowe'en! unknown Poem
49 Hallowe'en John Ciardi Poem
50 The Turn of the Road James Stephens Poem
51 All, all a-lonely unknown Poem
51 Look Out, Boys! Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem
52 Three Witches' Charms Ben Jonson Poem
53 Witch's Milking Charm unknown Poem
54 A Witch's Chant John Wilson Poem
54 Charm Robert Herrick Poem
54 Witch's Broomstick Spell unknown Poem
55 Spells Ian Serraillier Poem
56 A Spell to Destroy Life Cherokee Indians, North America Poem
57 Kehama's Curse Robert Southey Poem
58 The Witch's Work Song T. H. White Poem
59 '...The curse be ended' T. S. Eliot Poem
60 Against Witches uncredited Poem
60 The Witches' Song Ben Jonson Poem
61 The Two Ravens Ian Serraillier Poem
62 A Croon on Hennacliff Robert Stephen Hawker Poem
64 Charm Against an Egg-Boat unknown Poem
64 White Witchcraft Robert Browning Poem
65 The Egg-shell Rudyard Kipling Poem
66 The Hag Robert Herrick Poem
67 A Curse Douglas Hyde Poem
67 On a Lord Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem
68 Some Say the Deil's Deid unknown Poem
68 The Devil Robert Southey & Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem
69 The Flying Dutchman Charles Godfrey Leland Poem
70 A Linnet in Hell James Elroy Flecker Poem
70 No Hiding Place Down There unknown Poem
71 Green Magic Edward Lowbury Poem
72 The Snitterjipe James Reeves Poem
73 'Be a Monster' Roy Fuller Poem
74 The White Monster W. H. Davies Poem
75 The Giant unknown Poem
75 The Monster T. Harri Jones Poem
76 More About Blunderbore Roy Fuller Poem
77 Giant Thunder James Reeves Poem
78 The Ogre Walter de la Mare Poem
80 Night Wanderers W. H. Davies Poem
82 Mab, the Fairy Queen unknown Poem
84 Dryads Siegfried Sassoon Poem
84 The Little Elf-Man J. K. Bangs Poem
85 The Satyr's Catch Ben Jonson Poem
85 The Werewolf Curt Siodmak Poem
86 The Spunky unknown Poem
87 'Her strong enchantments failing...' A. E. Housman Poem
87 The Phantom Pumpkin Robert Graves Poem
88 Siesta Stevie Smith Poem
88 The Horror of Don't Care unknown Poem
89 A Dream of Hanging Patricia Beer Poem
90 Otis Snift Spike Milligan Poem
91 Her-zie Stevie Smith Poem
92 Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? Thomas Hardy Poem
92 Mr Ody Met a Body Edith Nesbit Poem
94 Grave by a Holm-Oak Stevie Smith Poem
94 The Unquiet Grave unknown Poem
96 To a Human Skeleton Richard Armour Poem
97 The Ghost and the Skeleton unknown Poem
97 Two's Company Raymond Wilson Poem
99 Ghosts Ian Hamilton Poem
100 Sweet William's Ghost Old English Ballad Poem
101 Albert and the Ghost of Lady Jane Grey G. Marriott Edgar Poem
101 Eerie Men of Erith unknown Poem
101 The Ghost's Lament unknown Poem
103 Once I was a Monarch's Daughter unknown Poem
104 The Ghosts' High Noon W. S. Gilbert Poem
105 Song of Two Ghosts Indian Song from Omaha, North America Poem
105 The Great Auk's Ghost Ralph Hodgson Poem
106 There she weaves both day and night (from The Lady of Shalott) Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
107 Sir Roger unknown Poem
108 Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
109 The Crooked Pear Tree Hill Leonard Clark Poem
113 Shadwell Stair Wilfred Owen Poem
114 Colonel Fazackerley Charles Causley Poem
116 The Ghost in the Garden Osbert Sitwell Poem
117 Ghosts Robert Service Poem
118 The Phantom-Lover Thomas Lovell Beddoes Poem
119 Shadow-Bride J. R. R. Tolkien Poem
120 The Handkerchief Ghost Christian Morgenstern Poem
121 The Ghost Walter de la Mare Poem
122 The Glimpse Thomas Hardy Poem
123 Haunted R. P. Lister Poem
124 Prince Kano Edward Lowbury Poem
125 Sally Simpkin's Lament and John Jones's Ghastly Ghostly Catastrophe Thomas Hood Poem
127 The Old Wife and the Ghost James Reeves Poem
129 City John Betjeman Poem
129 The Ghosts' Walk John Kendall (II) Poem
132 Emperors of the Island Dannie Abse Poem
134 The Man Who Wasn't There Brian Lee Poem
135 On a Dentist unknown Poem
135 On Dr Chard unknown Poem
135 On Leslie Moore unknown Poem