My green book contains records of what I read for the period 1975-2000.
Today's forgotten book SUPERNATURAL SLEUTHS edited by Peter Haining made its appearance on 20 August 1987, just under 23 years ago.
My research today has uncovered this information:
Supernatural sleuths, stories of occult investigators, edited by Peter Haining.
Published 1986 by W. Kimber in London .
Written in English.Table of Contents
The ghost detective / Mark Lemon
Selecting a ghost / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The story of the Moor Road / E. and H. Heron
A victim of higher space / Algernon Blackwood
Case of the haunting of Grange / Sax Rohmer
The telepather / Henry A. Hering
The poltergeist / Seabury Quinn
The sinister shape / Gordon MacCreagh
Panic in Wild Harbor / Gordon Hillman
The case of the bronze door / Margery Lawrence
The case of the red-headed women / Dennis Wheatley
Apparition in the sun / Joseph Payne Brennan.
Peter Haining (1940-2007) according to Fantastic Fiction edited a large number of anthologies, predominantly of horror and fantasy short stories, wrote non-fiction books on a variety of topics from the Channel Tunnel to Sweeney Todd and also used the pen names "Ric Alexander" and "Richard Peyton" on a number of crime story anthologies. In the Seventies he wrote three novels, including The Hero (1973), which was optioned for filming.
He wrote several reference books on Doctor Who, including the 21st anniversary special Doctor Who: A Celebration Two Decades Through Time and Space (1983), and also wrote the definitive study of Sherlock Holmes on the screen, The Television Sherlock Holmes (1991) and several other television tie-ins featuring famous literary characters, including Maigret, Poirot and James Bond.
He won the British Fantasy Awards Karl Edward Wagner Award in 2001.
I only have a sporadic record of what I read and I regret this.
ReplyDeleteI've read several Peter Haining collections and they've been first-rate.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of Haining's anthologies...even when they select relatively minor work from the writers at hand, they were almost always entertaining...
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