The Ghouls

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from the dust-jacket: "The Ghouls: edited by Peter Haining, with an introduction by Vincent Price and an afterword by Christopher Lee" "Will any of us ever forget the first time we saw Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney? Or The Beast with Five Fingers with Peter Lorre? Or Die, Monster, Die with Boris Karloff? Whether we saw them as first-run films at the local theater or are only now becoming addicted to 'Chiller Theater' on television, the ghoul-watchers among us are in for a rare treat. The Ghouls is a horror film buff's dream. Peter Haining has collected the stories on which eighteen of the very best horror films were based..." "...In his introductions to each story, Mr. Haining provides a brief look at the story itself and the films made from it, including some fascinating bits of information about the making of the motion picture." Stories included: The Devil in a convent, by F. O. Mann The lunatics, by E. A. Poe Puritan passions, by N. Hawthorne Phantom of the opera, by G. Leroux The magician, by S. Maugham Freaks, by T. Robbins [Most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W), by R. Connell Dracula's daughter, by B. Stoker All that money can buy, by S. V. Bent The body snatcher, by R. L. Stevenson The beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey The beast from 20,000 fathoms, by R. Bradbury The fly, by G. Langelaan Black Sunday, by N. Gogol [Incident at Owl Creek](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W), by A. Bierce Monster of terror, by H. P. Lovecraft The skull, by R. Bloch The oblong box, by E. A. Poe

subjects: Fiction,  Hunting,  Islands,  survival of the fittest,  animal trapping,  trapping pits,  knouts,  hunting dogs,  Cossacks,  deaf-mutes,  snow leopards,  jaguars,  Juvenile fiction,  Hunting stories,  Juvenile works,  Human hunting,  Big game sport,  Travel fiction,  Horror tales,  Film and video adaptations,  Movies,  Motion pictures,  Films,  History,  Classic Literature,  Short Stories,  Juvenile audience,  civil war,  hanging,  American Civil War,  Confederate States of America,  Union,  Film adaptations,  Récits d'horreur,  Adaptations cinématographiques

People: Peyton Farquhar,  Sanger Rainsford,  General Zaroff,  Whitney,  Ivan,  The Great White Czar

Places: United States,  Alabama,  Owl Creek Bridge,  Caribbean,  Amazon rainforest,  Ship-Trap Island,  Tibet

Times: 1861-65,  20th century