" It is new, indeed for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities: and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the
contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon" The Call of Cthulhu

Saturday, February 2, 2019

New Eldritch Tomes, Richard Powers


I have discussed my love of the art of Richard Powers in two earlier posts on this blog as well as my Jagged Orbit blog so I was delighted to find this anthology originally published by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1958.  

Contents: from ISFDB

6 • Introduction (Deals with the Devil) • (1958) • essay by Basil Davenport
11 • Sir Dominick's Bargain • (1872) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
24 • Enoch Soames • (1916) • novelette by Max Beerbohm (variant of Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties)
49 • A Deal with the Devil • [Jorkens] • (1946) • short story by Lord Dunsany
66 • Satan and Sam Shay • (1942) • short story by Robert Arthur
79 • The Devil and Simon Flagg • (1954) • short story by Arthur Porges
86 • The Devil and the Old Man • (1905) • short story by John Masefield
91 • Threshold • (1940) • short story by Henry Kuttner
106 • Nellthu • (1955) • short story by Anthony Boucher
108 • Threesie • (1956) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
116 • Hell-Bent • (1951) • short story by Ford McCormack
134 • The Devil, George, and Rosie • (1934) • novelette by John Collier
152 • The Devil Was Sick • (1951) • short story by Bruce Elliott


Earlier posts

http://dunwichhorrors.blogspot.com/2016/04/horror-anthologies-and-art-of-richard.html

http://dunwichhorrors.blogspot.com/2016/05/horror-anthologies-art-of-richard.html

http://ajaggedorbit.blogspot.com/2015/12/one-of-events-that-propelled-me-from-sf.html

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