
One fond memory of school days for Baby Boomers was the annual arrival of the Scholastic Books catalog and order form. I hear from a reader, though, that the artist is Ken Barr. The name of the cover artist is nowhere to be found in this book or on its cover. "The Mutant Legacy" by Roberta Ghidalia (1977)įeast of Fear, edited by Vic Ghidalia, a collection of ten tales, three of which are from Weird Tales. "Waxworks" by Robert Bloch ( Weird Tales, Jan.

Lovecraft and August Derleth ( The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces, 1966) Benson ( The Room in the Tower and Other Stories, 1912) "The Dead Man" by Fritz Leiber ( Weird Tales, Nov. "Music from the Dark" by Cornell Woolrich ( Dime Mystery Magazine, 1935 as "Dark Melody of Madness") "The Striding Place" by Gertrude Atherton ( The Bell and the Fog, 1905) "The Screaming Skull" by Marion Crawford ( Wandering Ghosts, 1911) "Masquerade" by Henry Kuttner ( Weird Tales, May 1942) After 7 Years,11 Months And 4,106 Posts….Without introduction (because the book doesn't have one, nor any of the stories in it), here is:.Other authors: Ray Bradbury, Robert E.Howard, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Algernon Blackwood and Edward Lucas White. If it happens again will his brother hear the alarm and ignore it? His greedy brother wants to inherit the estate.

Now he’s set up an alarm system in his coffin in case it happens again. “The Second Interment” (1933) – Clark Ashton Smith – A man was once buried alive. She gets a hold of the wig the woman wore while doing her killings. “A Wig For Miss DeVore” (1943) – August Derleth – a movie star with less than zero ethics has a part playing a murderess. In the basement is a bio-chemist who may have the plague’s origin and eventual outcome figured out.

They’re all infected but go out of their way not to touch Paul. He’s careful not to let her touch him as they make their way to a group of priest-scientists. He’s not sure why, but he gets her out of there and they head for Galveston. One day he sees a girl about to be tossed into a manhole filled with quicklime. Paul is traveling through Houston when he’s captured by a group of uninfected people. Those infected have an uncontrollable desire to spread the plague by merely touching someone else. People are afflicted with gray splotches that eventually take over the body. – After meteors hit the Earth a plague breaks out.
