Wolf's Complete Book of Terror
Editor: Leonard Wolf.
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter.
Editions: Hardcover with dust jacket (ISBN 0-517-53634-X), paperback (ISBN 0-517-53635-8).
Type: Anthology.
Print Run: unknown.
Release Date: June 1979.
Size: 5-3/4" x 8-1/2".
Page Count: xvi+473.
Price: Hardcover $14.95, paperback $8.95.
 Front of dust jacket and paperback |
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Top part of front cover by Virgil Finlay.
Contents:
- Introduction, essay by Leonard Wolf
- Page 1: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973), short story by Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Page 7: I Love My Love (1979), poem by Helen Adam.
- Page 10: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967), short story by Harlan Ellison.
- Page 22: The Tattooer (1963), short st.ory by Junichiro Tanizaki.
- Page 27: Steps (Excerpt) (1968), short fiction by Jerzy Kosinski.
- Page 30: Axolotl (1967), short story by Julio Cortázar.
- Page 34: The Wish (1948), short story by Roald Dahl.
- Page 37: The Lottery (1948), short story by Shirley Jackson.
- Page 44: It's a Good Life (1953), short story by Jerome Bixby.
- Page 58: They Bite (1943), short story by Anthony Boucher.
- Page 67: The Last Night of the World (1951), short story by Ray Bradbury.
- Page 71: Born of Man and Woman (1950), short story by Richard Matheson.
- Page 74: Piazza Piece (1927), poem by John Crowe Ransom.
- Page 75: The South (1962), short story by Jorge Luís Borges.
- Page 80: The Fly (1957), novelette by George Langelaan.
- Page 105: The Doll (1946), novelette by Algernon Blackwood.
- Page 129: The Ghost (1926), short story by Richard Hughes.
- Page 132: The Hunted Beast (1930), short story by T. F. Powys.
- Page 140: End (1947), poem by Langston Hughes.
- Page 141: The Rival Dummy (1946), short story by Ben Hecht.
- Page 149: Caterpillars (1912), short story by E. F. Benson.
- Page 156: Lukundoo (1907), short story by Edward Lucas White.
- Page 167: Sredni Vashtar (1910), short story by Saki.
- Page 171: The Picture in the House (1924), short story by H. P. Lovecraft.
- Page 178: Pollock and the Porroh Man (1895), short story by H. G. Wells.
- Page 190: The Spider (1915), novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers.
- Page 205: The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains (1839), short story by Frederick Marryat.
- Page 220: Tchériapin (1920), short story by Sax Rohmer.
- Page 233: My Doll Janie (1979), poem by Lola Ridge.
- Page 234: The Monkey's Paw (1902), short story by W. W. Jacobs.
- Page 243: The Mark of the Beast (1890), short story by Rudyard Kipling.
- Page 253: Manacled (1900), short story by Stephen Crane.
- Page 256: Yuki-Onna (1904), short story by Lafcadio Hearn.
- Page 259: Mujina (1904), short story by Lafcadio Hearn.
- Page 261: The Squaw (1893), short story by Bram Stoker.
- Page 270: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
- Page 283: The Black Mask, Episode from Là-bas (Down There) (1891), short fiction by Joris-Karl Huysmans [as by J. K. Huysmans].
- Page 291: The Magic Shirt, short fiction by Anonymous.
- Page 292: Carmilla: [Martin Hesselius] (1871), novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
- Page 317: Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time (1865), short story by Rosa Mulholland.
- Page 328: The Very Sad Tale of the Matches, poem by Heinrich Hoffmann.
- Page 330: The Man-Tiger, short fiction by Anonymous.
- Page 331: The Hours in the Life of a Lousy-Haired Man, Episode from Maldoror, short fiction by Comte de Lautréamont.
- Page 335: Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood (Excerpt) (1847), short story by James Malcolm Rymer.
- Page 340: The Horla, or Modern Ghosts (1886), novelette by Guy de Maupassant (~ The Horla).
- Page 358: A Carrion (1979), poem by Charles Pierre Baudelaire.
- Page 361: The Pit and the Pendulum (1842), short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
- Page 372: The Black Cat (1843), short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
- Page 379: The Birthmark (1843), short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Page 392: La Belle Helene, short story by Prosper Mérimée.
- Page 396: Nuckelavee, short fiction by Anonymous.
- Page 398: La Belle Dame sans Merci (1820), poem by John Keats.
- Page 401: Isabella, or The Pot of Basil (1820), poem by John Keats.
- Page 417: The Erl-King (1782), poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- Page 418: The Count de Gernande, Episode from Justine (1979), short fiction by Marquis de Sade [as by The Marquis de Sade]
- Page 429: Lord Randal, poem by Anonymous.
- Page 431: The Painted Skin (1895), short story by P'u Sung-Ling.
- Page 434: Satan at the Gates of Hell, from Paradise Lost, Book II, short fiction by John Milton.
- Page 440: The Milk-White Doo, short fiction by Anonymous.
- Page 442: The Wife of Usher's Well (1947), poem by Anonymous.
- Page 445: Bluebeard (1697), short story by Charles Perrault.
- Page 449: The Vampire, Episode from The Golden Ass, short fiction by Lucius Apuleius.
- Page 455: Jaël (Excerpt), short fiction by Book of Judges.
- Page 461: Author Biographies (Wolf's Complete Book of Terror), essay.
- Page 465: Bibliography (Wolf's Complete Book of Terror), essay.
References:
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database.