The Ghouls
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from the dust-jacket: "The Ghouls: edited by Peter Haining, with an introduction by Vincent Price and an afterword by Christopher Lee" "Will any of us ever forget the first time we saw Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney? Or The Beast with Five Fingers with Peter Lorre? Or Die, Monster, Die with Boris Karloff? Whether we saw them as first-run films at the local theater or are only now becoming addicted to 'Chiller Theater' on television, the ghoul-watchers among us are in for a rare treat. The Ghouls is a horror film buff's dream. Peter Haining has collected the stories on which eighteen of the very best horror films were based..." "...In his introductions to each story, Mr. Haining provides a brief look at the story itself and the films made from it, including some fascinating bits of information about the making of the motion picture." Stories included: The Devil in a convent, by F. O. Mann The lunatics, by E. A. Poe Puritan passions, by N. Hawthorne Phantom of the opera, by G. Leroux The magician, by S. Maugham Freaks, by T. Robbins [Most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W), by R. Connell Dracula's daughter, by B. Stoker All that money can buy, by S. V. Bent The body snatcher, by R. L. Stevenson The beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey The beast from 20,000 fathoms, by R. Bradbury The fly, by G. Langelaan Black Sunday, by N. Gogol [Incident at Owl Creek](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W), by A. Bierce Monster of terror, by H. P. Lovecraft The skull, by R. Bloch The oblong box, by E. A. Poe
Themes & subjects
FictionHuntingIslandssurvival of the fittestanimal trappingtrapping pits
First published 1971Characters & people
Setting
United StatesAlabamaOwl Creek BridgeCaribbeanAmazon rainforestShip-Trap IslandTibet1861-6520th century
About the authors
Peter Haining
1940-04-02 – 2007-11-19
> Peter Haining ist ein bekannter Autor und Herausgeber makaberer Literatur. Seine Bücher wurden in mehreren Sprachen auf der ganzen Welt veröffentlicht. > > Er lebt in Suffolk, England, und ist Besitzer einer umfangreichen Bibliothek mit seltenen Büchern und Schriften, woraus er eine ganze Menge seines Arbeitsmaterials bezieht. Außerdem kennt er viele große Autoren dieser Literaturgattung persönlich. > > Unter Kennern hat sich Peter Haining in Deutschland bereits einen Namen ge-macht. Nachdem schon mehrere Gruselanthologien für Erwachsene von ihm veröffentlicht wurden, werden jetzt in der Reihe »Hainings Gruselkabinett« Gruselanthologien für Jugendliche und Erwachsene herausgegeben. > …
Ray Bradbury
22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012
Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his s…
Ambrose Bierce
1842 – 1914?
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.
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