The Little Man Who Wasn’t Quite – William W. The Diary of a Madman – Guy de Maupassant The Thing in The Cellar – George Langelaan Is that a corpse that the black tentacles are slithering over? And look beyond the corpse, we have a hint of the being from which the tentacles are coming, with its gaunt rib-like structure and glowing eyes. We have a flying skull appearing from the gap in a pair of purple, diaphanous drapes. The cover art is a little unclear as to what’s going on. We counter the black-magic bacillus of a cruel and often supernatural reality with the white-magic antibodies of a purely literary, unreal credulity.
Perhaps it is something like taking a smallpox vaccination to immunize ourselves against smallpox.
Apparently he’s more of a sci-fi anthologiser but here he’s strayed into horror with “an unholy bible of weird tales by fifteen masters of the supernatural”.Īs so often is the case with the introduction to a horror anthology, Conklin offers a brief opinion on “Why horror?” It’s a fascinating subject and something I constantly ask myself, perhaps I’ll dedicate a post to the subject at some point. I can’t come into work today as I have a bit of a groff conklin). I know very little about Groff Conklin, other than he has a name that sounds like an adjective and condition (i.e.
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