Boris Karloff’s Favorite Horror Stories

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  • Published by:
    • Avon, 1965, USA.
  • Edited by: Boris Karloff
  • Also contains:
    • “13th Floor” by Frank Gruber
    • “Child of the Winds” by Edmond Hamilton
    • “The Opener of the Crypt” by John Jakes
    • “The Thing that Walked on the Winds” by August Derleth
    • “The Scarlet King” by Evan Hunter
    • “The Graveyard Reader” by Theodore Sturgeon
    • “The Mindworm” by C. M. Kornbluth
    • “Back from the Grave” by Robert Silverberg
    • “The Opener of the Way” by Robert Bloch
    • “The Haunter of the Dark” by H. P. Lovecraft

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The Book of the Sky

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  • Published by:
    • Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1956
  • Edited by: A.C. Spectorsky

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Best Tales of Terror

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  • Published by:
    • Faber & Faber, 1962, Great Britain.
  • Edited by: Edmund Crispin
  • Also contains:
    • “Introduction” by Edmund Crispin
    • “The Emissary” by Ray Bradbury
    • “The Man Who Liked Dickens” by Evelyn Waugh
    • “A Summons” by L. P. Hartley
    • “The Mine” by L. T. C. Rolt
    • “Bird of Prey” by John Collier
    • “Ringing the Changes” by Robert Aickman
    • “Mr. Meldrum’s Mania” by John Metcalfe
    • “Three Miles Up” by Elizabeth Jane Howard
    • “Manhole 69” by J. G. Ballard
    • “The Misogynist” by James E. Gunn
    • “The Next in Line” by Ray Bradbury

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Best Murder Stories

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  • Published by:
    • Faber & Faber, 1965, Great Britain.
  • Edited by: Cyril Ray

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The Best Horror Stories

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  • Published by:
    • Mallard Press, 1990, USA.

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Best Book of Sports Stories

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  • Published by:
    • Doubleday and Company, 1966, USA.
  • Edited by: M. A. Donnelly
  • Illustrated by: Julio Freire
  • Also contains:
    • “The Diving Fool” by Franklin M. Reck
    • “A Piece of Steak” by Jack London
    • “A Busher’s Letters Home” by Ring Lardner
    • “Thicker Than Water” by Paul Gallico
    • “The Zealots of Cranston Tech” by Archie Oldham
    • “The Winning Bug” by Jackson Scholz
    • “The Greatest Victory” by Frank O’Rourk
    • “A Cure for Lumbago” by Charles Van Loan
    • “Dog Man” by Vereen Bell
    • “Bigger Than A Victory” by Owen Johnson
    • “His Finest Race” by A. Stanley Kramer
    • “Matilda” by Le Grand
    • “Last Race” by Harry Sylvester
    • “Mountain Madness” by Tom Hopkinson

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The Best of Playboy Fiction Volume 2 (Audio Cassette)

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  • Published by:
    • Brilliance Audio, 1996.
  • Contains:
    • “The Bookseller” (read by Micheal Page)
    • “Welcome to the Monkeyhouse” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (read by J. Charles)
    • “The Purpose of the Moon” by Tom Robbins (read by Steve Yankee)
    • “Carnal Knowledge” by T. Coraghessan Boyle (read by Dick Hill)
    • “Fahrvergnugen” by Jane Smiley (read by Bill Weidman)

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Adventure and Suspense

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  • Published by:
    • Scholastic, 1973, USA.
  • Edited by: Marion L. Huyck

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The Armchair Horror Collection

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  • Published by:
    • Orion Paperbacks, 1994, UK.
  • Edited by: Peter Haining

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The Armchair Aviator

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  • Published by:
    • Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983, USA.
  • Edited by: John Thorn

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From book cover: “Best in aviation fact and fiction–military or civil–from Richard Bach, Arthur C. Clarke, Len Deighton, Jimmy Doolittle, Ernest Gann, Wolfgang Langewiesche, Charles Lindbergh, Norman Mailer, James Michener, Harald Penrose, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, James Thurber, John Toland, and MANY MORE.”

From eBay auction: “Also includes writings by Octave Chanute, Michael Collins, Roald Dahl, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, John Glenn, Joseph Heller, Leonardo da Vinci, C.P. Snow, Edgar Allen Poe, H.G. Wells, T.H. White, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, William Butler Yeats, and many more. ‘The Armchair Aviator’ touches on every aspect of man’s love affair with flight, from Icarus’s fall to the Eagle landing… Excellent essays, this is where literature, dreams, science, technology, history all meet. Great book about flight, airplane, astronauts and space travel, air power and military, World War I and World War II and role of Air Force, jet fighters, etc. Fascinating.”


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