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Realms of Darkness

Mary Danby

First published 1985
Publisher Octopus Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 796
Price $8.95
ISBN 0862732441

The 1988 edition omits the last 11 stories.

The following nongenre stories have been omitted from the contents listed here: "The Potter's Art" by Denys Val Baker (p. 56); "The Kite" by Christianna Brand (p. 117); "Robbie" by Mary Danby (p. 247); "The Circus" by Winston Graham (p. 335); "The Day of Reckoning" by Patricia Highsmith (p. 390); "Polish the Lid" by Terry Tapp (p. 664); and "Evening Flight" by Alan Temperley (p. 677).

Page Title Author(s) Type
11 Introduction (Realms of Darkness) Christopher Lee Essay
15 Denton's Death Martin Amis Short Story
20 In the Slaughteryard Anonymous Short Story
32 The Dead Man of Varley Grange Anonymous Short Story
44 Footsteps Invisible Robert Arthur Short Story
63 The Thing in the Hall E. F. Benson Short Story
73 The Boarded Window Ambrose Bierce Short Story
77 The Mannikin Robert Bloch Short Story
91 They Bite Anthony Boucher Short Story
101 The Demon Lover Elizabeth Bowen Short Story
107 The Crown Derby Plate Marjorie Bowen Short Story
123 Blind Man's Hood John Dickson Carr Short Story
139 The Door R. Chetwynd-Hayes Short Story
152 The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael Agatha Christie Short Story
169 Blackberries Roger Clarke Short Story
180 The Moon Web Adrian Cole Short Story
192 The Horror of Abbot's Grange Frederick Cowles Short Story
206 The Screaming Skull F. Marion Crawford Novelette
230 Pig Roald Dahl Short Story
261 The Extra Passenger August Derleth Short Story
268 The Witch's Bone William Croft Dickinson Short Story
277 The Four-Fifteen Express Amelia B. Edwards Novelette
299 The Haunted Haven A. E. Ellis Short Story
307 The Sexton's Adventure Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
313 The Black Ferry John Galt Short Story
323 Friends Catherine Gleason Short Story
352 Where the Woodbine Twineth Davis Grubb Short Story
359 Waking or Sleeping Willis Hall Short Story
368 Someone in the Lift L. P. Hartley Short Story
373 The Peculiar Case of Mrs. Grimmond Dorothy K. Haynes Short Story
381 The Trapdoor C. D. Heriot Short Story
403 An Invitation to the Hunt George Hitchcock Short Story
411 Taboo Geoffrey Household Novelette
428 Guests from Gibbet Island Washington Irving Short Story
438 The Book Margaret Irwin Short Story
450 The Three Sisters W. W. Jacobs Short Story
457 The Haunted Dolls' House M. R. James Short Story
467 The Yellow Cat Michael Joseph Short Story
476 The Reaper's Image Stephen King Short Story
483 Soldier Key Sterling E. Lanier Novelette
507 The Sanguivites Kay Leith Short Story
518 Hybrid L. A. Lewis Short Story
530 The Black Druid Frank Belknap Long Short Story
537 The Tomb of Sarah F. G. Loring Short Story
548 The Skeleton Hand Agnes MacLeod Short Story
554 The Man from Glasgow W. Somerset Maugham Short Story
563 The Hostelry Guy de Maupassant Short Story
574 The Phantom of the Lake Edmund Mitchell Short Story
584 The Thing in the Upper Room Arthur Morrison Short Story
592 The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
597 The Demon King J. B. Priestley Short Story
608 Peekaboo Bill Pronzini Short Story
613 The Black Lake Tony Richards Short Story
621 The Red Turret Flavia Richardson Short Story
629 Intercom Agnes Short Short Story
639 Examination Day Henry Slesar Short Story
643 The Devil's Ape Barnard Stacey Short Story
649 The Judge's House Bram Stoker Short Story
691 Dengué Fever Paul Theroux Short Story
700 Message for Margie Christine Campbell Thomson Short Story
708 Harry Rosemary Timperley Short Story
719 Lucky's Grove H. Russell Wakefield Short Story
737 Tarnhelm Hugh Walpole Short Story
750 The Tibetan Box Elizabeth Walter Short Story
765 The Sea-Raiders H. G. Wells Short Story
774 A Thin Gentleman with Gloves Simon West Short Story
785 The Case of the Haunted Chateau Dennis Wheatley Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Realms of Darkness Cover 1985 Octopus Books Hardcover Anthology 796