Haunts, Haunts, Haunts

by Helen Hoke (Editor), Charles Keeping (Illustrator)

Table of contents:
Close behind him - Wyndham, J.
The house surgeon - Kipling, R.
The helmsman - Kafka, F.
Me and my shadow - Russell, E. F.
The waxwork - Burrage, A. M.
The inn - Burrage, A. M.
The cloak - Bloch, R.
The soul cages - Croker, T. C.
The whistling room - Hodgson, W. H.
The music of Erich Zann - Lovecraft, H. P.
Deadline - Matheson, R. .
Don't look behind you - Brown, F.

191 pages, Library Binding

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

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the best anthologies of horror and the uncanny, focusing on the Playboy fiction era and before. It was marketed to children's libraries, but I have no idea why- it's got Lovecraft and Kafka, and no weak Mickey Mouse stuff. Honestly, this collection holds up even better as an adult than it did as a child when I first discovered it, and stories like "Close Behind Him" and "The Waxwork" are classics for a reason. Plus, "Don't Look Behind You" packs a hell of a closing punch...