Uncanny Tales of Unearthly And Unexpected Horrors

by Helen Hoke (Editor), Murray Leinster, H. Russell Wakefield

A collection of ten tales featuring elements of the supernatural, the ghastly, the terrifying, the eerie, and the shocking.

Table of Contents
Terror • (1946) • shortstory by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins ]
The Elemental • (1974) • novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Jerry Bundler • (1897) • shortstory by W. W. Jacobs
The Crowd • (1943) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
The Inheritance • (1968) • shortstory by Simon Pilkington
The Snail-Watcher • (1964) • shortstory by Patricia Highsmith (variant of The Snail Watcher)
Just Married • (1970) • shortstory by John Edgell
Graduation • (1977) • shortstory by Richard Christian Matheson
The Triumph of Death • (1949) • shortstory by H. Russell Wakefield
Back for Christmas • (1939) • shortstory by John Collier

Genres: Short Stories, Horror

126 pages, Hardcover

First published September 29, 1983

About the author

Helen Jeanne Lamb Hoke (20 July 1903 - 26 March 1990) was an American author of children's books.

She wrote nearly 100 children's books and set up and ran children's book divisions in five publishing companies. Helen Hoke was well known for her anthologies on children’s humour, but she was also fascinated by the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird.

In 1945, Hoke married Franklin M. Watts, who owned Franklin M. Watts, Inc., publishers, and became the vice-president and director of international projects.

Franklin Hoke is her grandson.

Reviews

[Marx Crosse · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think some of the stories were good, but others dragged and had me bored.