THE FOURTH PAN BOOK OF HORROR STORIES SELECTED BY HERBERT VAN THAL PAN X261 - RELEASE DATE: 1ST NOVEMBER 1963

ARTIST: W FRANCIS PHILLIPS

PBoH FACT: 'The elephant man' is the only story in the series based on fact and is an account of john merrick

PAN 4

WILLIAM SANSOM: VARIOUS TEMPTATIONS

M.S. WADDELL: THE PALE BOY

RAY BRADBURY: THE EMISSARY

ROBERT BLOCH: LUCY COMES TO STAY

RICHARD DAVIS: GUY FAWKES NIGHT

VIVIAN MEIK: TWO OLD WOMEN

ALEXANDER WOOLCOTT: MOONLIGHT SONATA

SEPTIMUS DALE: THE LITTLE GIRL EATER

ROSMARY TIMPERLEY: HARRY

RAY RUSSELL: SARDONICUS

ROBERT AICKMAN: RINGING THE CHANGES

HUGH REID: DULCIE

M.S. WADDELL: THE IMPORTANCE OF REMAINING ERNEST

JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN: SLIME

ADOBE JAMES: THE OHIO LOVE SCULPTURE

DAVIS GRUBB: THE HORSEHAIR TRUNK

ALEX HAMILTON: THE ATTIC EXPRESS

ELLIOT O'DONNELL: THE HAUNTED TELEPHONE

SIR FREDERICK TREVES: THE ELEPHANT MAN

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pboh fact: m.s. waddell is now a successful childrens author

pboh fact: adobe james is the pen name of james moss cardwell as is james mcardwell.

pan 4 reprint

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pboh fact: a plot device from septimus dales' story 'the little girl eater' was used in the romantic melodrama 'die Brüder' - directed by wolf gremm in 1977.