More Tales of Unease

by John Burke (Editor), Andrea Newman (contributor), Christine Hickman (contributor)

Here are twenty-two inventive destroyers of tranquility, all specially selected for PAN and more than half now appearing for the first time.

Singly they tell of murder, witchcraft, madness, incest and the supernatural. Together they challenge your complacency, invading your secret thoughts to make you chary of solitude.

11 • She'll Be Company for You • Andrea Newman
33 • The Escort • Herbert Harris
36 • The Young Squire • Virginia Ironside
41 • Snow • Miles Tripp
48 • A Cry of Children • John Christopher
64 • The Beginning and the End • Arnost Lustig
77 • He Said I Could • (1964) • Shaun Usher [as by Jeffry Scott]
80 • Speech Is Silver • (1965) • John Brunner
98 • The Girl in Question • Stewart Farrar
108 • So Dark the Rose • Christine Hickman
121 • Clegson's Folly • Alexander Walton
144 • Time to Be Going • Elizabeth Lemarchand
159 • Tell David ... • Penelope Wallace
170 • The Flies on the Wall • Alex Hamilton
188 • Here Comes a Candle • Victor Lucas
194 • Split Image • R. Andrew Hall
207 • Little Girl Lost • (1955) • E. C. Tubb
222 • They'll Have to Go • Michael Cornish
235 • The Blind Man • Alan C. Jenkins
250 • Frances • Stephen Meadows
262 • Jukebox • (1955) • Arthur Sellings
272 • Be Our Guest • John Burke

Genres: Horror, Short Stories

284 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

John Frederick Burke was an English writer of novels and short stories, specializing in film and tv tie-ins.

He wrote under the pen names J. F. Burke, Jonathan Burke, John Burke, Jonathan George, Robert Miall, Martin Sands, Owen Burke, Sara Morris, Russ Ames, Roger Rougiere, Joanna Jones and co-wrote with his wife Jean Burke under the pen name Harriet Esmond.

Note: There are several authors called John Burke. This author has two spaces in the name John^^Burke.

Reviews

[Ming Suan Ong · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. The cover is creepy but there isn’t a story based on it inside. Not to say there aren’t some good stories in there mainly at the beginning and the end. Could be the fact that it’s over 50 years old but some of them were quite slow though some quite clever stories with twists in the tale. Murder and madness seem to proliferate through most of them. Some “time travel”, some Deja vu, my fave is probably Andrea Newman’s story about the unnerving cat who outs the murdering husband.