07/17/2025
Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre Series
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre series, edited by Jack Adrian, was published from 1997 to 2005. Each volume highlighted ‘lost’ stories by well-known (and not so well-known) writers. The volumes for 1997 and 1998 are now out of print, but this is an opportunity to acquire the remainder at the bargain price of US$7.50 each (or take all seven volumes for US45.00 (shipping extra).
CONTENTS:
1999:The House that was Lost by Tom Gallon; Tight and Loose by Nigel Gow: The Man Who Was Tomorrow by Eric Ambrose; Newsreel by W.J. Makin; Time-Piece by Donald Shoubridge; Last Act First by Laurence Meynell.
2000: An Anniversary at The Hare and Billet by E. Nesbit and Oswald Barron; The Children of Pain by Reginald Bacchus and Ranger Gull; The Chowdekar by B. M Croker; ‘Wirh What Measure Ye Mete. .. .’ by Ethel Lina White; The Avenging Phonograph by E. R. Punshon; The Witch-Finder by S. Baring-Gould; The Empty Berth by Rose Macaulay; The Cat by Sax Rohmer; The Island of Ghosts by Julian Hawthorne.
2001: I Will Never Leave You by Marjorie Bowen; The Corner House by Elisabeth Kyle; The Tarleton Dress by F. Tennyson Jesse; A Little Way Ahead by Pamela Frankau; The Pool by Luas Malet; The Badger by Jessie Douglas Kerruish; Man-Eater by Elizabeth Gorell; Fear by S.P.B. Mais; Modern Antique by Milward Kennedy.
2002 Ghosts at The Cornhill 1920–1930: ‘Wanted! Quarmin Tay! By W.H. Adams; The Wade Monument by Violet Jacob; The Wedding by John Sampson; The Moral Op**te by William Bradley; The Black Cat by George Blake; Fladda Light by Hilton Brown; The Jackals by Edward Living; The Trouble at Totton Corner by H.T. Sheringham; The Peacock Sari by L.M. Crump; A Bunch of Balloons by Barbara Euphan Todd; Mrs Murdoch’s Man/A Jester of the King by F.H.Dorset; Nisi Dominus by Cecil Binney; The Portent by John Fisher; Red Hair and Yellow Curtains by Shaugh Courtenay.
2003 Ghosts at The Cornhill 1931–1939: The Garden House by W.M. Letts; The Eyes of the Moor by Joyce Kilbuurn; The House of Desolation by Alan Griff; The Sword by Mary Webb; The Street He Never Found By Elizabeth Horsfall; The Climb by C, Gordon Glover; The Barwick Stone by Winifred Peck; And No Ghost Walks by M.A. Peart; Hallucination by Anthony ffettyplace; The Bell by M.A. Peart; Between Two Walls by Mary Lutyens; Vibrations by Anthony ffettyplace; Children of the Rectory by Kathleen Collison-Morley; Curious Adventure of Mr Bond by Nugent Barker; Can These Things be? by Maud Diver;
2004 The Last ‘Queer Stories from Truth’:The Exchange/A Psychic Mystery Anon; The Damned Spty/’Dusty Desth’/Violet M. Methley; The Escape by George W. Nixon; The Dream Giver by Chris Sewell; Bitter Almonds by A.B. Cox; The Cab in Sloane Square by Mark Napier; Goolang/Michael Leinster’s Picture by Anthony Armstrong; The End of the World by Helen Sutherland; The Spade in the Night by Myfanwy Price; Exeat by Aylmer Vallance; The Last Appointment by Douglas Pike;xit by Mary Ann Abbs; Annyversry by H. Russell Wakefield; The Fisherman/Open Sesame by Frank Batchelor; Strange Company by Michael Hervey; Little Old Lady by Jane C. Butler; The Bright Room by George A. Whiting; Traveller’s Tale by Alan Raymond; Thin Air by Anne King; ‘Pobson’ by Horace Newte; The Sisters by Magdalen King-Hall; The Parson Vanishes/The Man at the Door by Alfred Ridgway; Brambles by H.L.V. Fletcher; Hell, Twice Daily by Rosemary Timperley; Poltergeist by E.A. Williams; The Dagger by Lane Mitchell.
2005 ‘Haven’t I Read That Before?’ (Stories imitating the stories of famous authors): I. W.W. JACOBS: The Toll-House by W.W. Jacobs; Reconstruction by Michael Kent; Blind Man’s Buff by H.R. Wakefield; The Well by W.W. Jacobs; The Well in the Garden by Peter Gladwin; II. Agatha CHRISTIE: Mrs Morrel’s Last Séance by Edgar Jepson; Over the Telephone by A.B. Cox; III.DAPHNE DU MAURIER: The Starlings by William Caine; IV.BARRY PEROWNE: ‘And There’s Your Proof’ by Douglas Newton; The Blind Spot by Barry Perowne; V.ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: The Case of Muelvos y Sagra by David Christie Murray; VI.ANDREW LANG: The House of Strange Stories by Andrew Lang; A Sentence of Death by Katharine Tynan; Mrs Carabay’s Curious Dream by Mary E. Munn; The Man on the Hearse by Janet Deene; VII. KATHARINE TRYAN: The Dream House by Katharine Tynan; The House of his Fathers by A.M. Burrage; The Garden of Fancy by A.M. Burrage; VIII.LAFCADIO HEARN: Munina by Lafcadio Hearn; The Follower by Lady Cynthia Asquith.
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