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Horror Times Ten
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Horror Times Ten (1967) (edit title/settings)

by Alden H. Norton (Editor) (edit contributors)

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BE PREPARED FOR HORROR
Indulge your taste for the blood-chilling and bizarre in this superior collection of supernatural tales, each one a masterpiece of sheer horror and shivering suspense. Here are ten stories written by such masters in the art of the unusual as Ray Bradbury, Sir Arthur... read more

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STORIES OF THE STRANGE, UNUSUAL AND SUPERNATURAL
A child and a woman's corpse are the focus of a mounting terror that becomes nearly unbearable by the final page. "The Trunk Lady" by RAY BRADBURY
A chillingly bizarre story about a man who fears more than anything else a sudden draught... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

STORIES OF THE STRANGE, UNUSUAL AND SUPERNATURAL
A child and a woman's corpse are the focus of a mounting terror that becomes nearly unbearable by the final page. "The Trunk Lady" by RAY BRADBURY
A chillingly bizarre story about a man who fears more than anything else a sudden draught of cool air ... with terrifying good reason. "Cool Air" by H. P. LOVECRAFT
A grotesquely deformed man relates an unusual story of the slow and gruesome deaths of twenty men in the mountains of Abyssinia. "That Receding Brow" by MAX BRAND
A terrify tale about a man whose closet contains a skeleton that leads him to an unexpected and diabolical end. "The Skeleton in the Closet" by ROBERT BLOCH

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  • “Mother, don't kill me! Don't kill me!" he tried to cry. "I'm sorry I tried to bring the police! Mother, you love Father -- is that why you killed Ellie? Mother, let me go! Mother, you looked so much like her standing in the sycamore shadows!”

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Introduction, by Alden H. Norton
The Trunk Lady, by Ray Bradbury
Cool Air, by H. P. Lovecraft
The Lonesome Place, by August W. Derleth
The Dead Remember, by Robert E. Howard
The Captain of the 'Pole Star', by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
That Receding Brow, by Max Brand
His Unconquerable Enemy, by W. C. Morrow
The Dead Valley, by Ralph Adams Cram
The Gorgon's Head, by Dorothy Baker
The Skeleton in the Closet, by Robert Bloch

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Alden H. Norton (Editor)

Other Contributors:

  1. August William Derleth (Contributor) - The Lonesome Place (short story)
  2. Ray Bradbury (Contributor) - The Trunk Lady (short story)
  3. H. P. Lovecraft (Contributor) - Cool Air (short story)
  4. Robert E. Howard (Contributor) - The Dead Remember (short story)
  5. Arthur Conan Doyle (Contributor) - The Captain of the 'Pole Star' (short story)
  6. Max Brand (Contributor) - That Receding Brow (short story)
  7. W. C. Morrow (Contributor) - His Unconquerable Enemy (short story)
  8. Ralph Adams Cram (Contributor) - The Dead Valley (short story)
  9. Dorothy Baker (Contributor) - The Gorgon's Head (short story)
  10. Robert Bloch (Contributor) - The Skeleton in the Closet (short story)
  11. Sam Moskowitz (Contributor) - Wrote "special notes" on authors that precede each story.

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corporation
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 1967
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 176

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