Terror in the Modern Vein
| First published | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Hanover House |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Anthology |
| Cover art | Richard Lindners |
| Pages | 315 |
| Price | $3.95 |
- On copyright page: "First Edition" (as noted by Currey), "Copyright, 1955", and LCCN.
- On jacket front flap: "Price, $3.95" and "Jacket design by Richard Lindners".
- Published April 1955 per Cole Checklist of SF Anthologies.
- "Seventeen unusual tales" on jacket front, and "A Unique and Compelling Collection of Tales of the New Witchcraft" on jacket front flap.
- On jacket back: "You will not find a single ghost, werewolf, or vampire in these pages. Instead you will find something of that which haunts our times now. You will meet the unnamed which is among us today."
- Each story is preceded by a short introduction.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Introduction (Terror in the Modern Vein) | Donald A. Wollheim | Essay |
| 17 | The Croquet Player (excerpt) | H. G. Wells | Short Fiction |
| 55 | They | Robert A. Heinlein | Short Story |
| 71 | Fritzchen | Charles Beaumont | Short Story |
| 83 | The Girl with the Hungry Eyes | Fritz Leiber | Short Story |
| 99 | Fishing Season | Robert Sheckley | Short Story |
| 113 | The Crowd | Ray Bradbury | Short Story |
| 123 | He | H. P. Lovecraft | Short Story |
| 135 | The Strange Case of Lemuel Jenkins | Philip M. Fisher | Novelette |
| 161 | The Rag Thing | David Grinnell | Short Story |
| 167 | The Burrow | Franz Kafka | Novelette |
| 199 | Gone Away | A. E. Coppard | Short Story |
| 209 | The Silence | Venard McLaughlin | Short Story |
| 219 | Mimic | Martin Pearson | Short Story |
| 227 | Shipshape Home | Richard Matheson | Short Story |
| 245 | The Dream Makers | Robert Bloch | Novelette |
| 271 | The Republic of the Southern Cross | Valery Brussov | Short Story |
| 289 | The Inheritors | Robert A. W. Lowndes & John B. Michel | Novelette |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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| Terror in the Modern Vein |
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1961 | Digit Books | Paperback | Anthology | R460 | D. Rainey | 156 |