- Uncanny Banquet
"Uncanny Banquet" is an
anthology of reprinted horror stories edited byRamsey Campbell and published byLittle, Brown in 1992. The editor's intention, expressed in the introduction, was to "collect a range of stories as remarkable as the accredited classics of the field but less well known" [Campbell, Ramsey. "Introduction", "Uncanny Banquet", p.2] . The book contains the first reprinting of the novel "The Hole of the Pit" - "one of the first masterpieces of the novel of supernatural terror", according to Campbell [Campbell, Ramsey. "Uncanny Banquet", p.173.] - since its original publication in 1914.The book contains the following stories:
* "Behind the Stumps" (1979) by
Russell Kirk
* "A Horizon of Obelisks" (1981) byDorothy K. Haynes
* "The Loony" (1984) byAlison Prince
* "The First-Nighter" (1908?) byHenry Normanby
* "The Hill and the Hole" (1947) byFritz Leiber
* "Ravissante" (1968) byRobert Aickman
* "The Lady in Gray" (1988) byDonald Wandrei
* "A Mote" (1971) byWalter de la Mare
* "McGonagall in the Head" (1992) by Ramsey Campbell
* "The Hole of the Pit" (1914) byAdrian Ross References
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