William Harrison Ainsworth – Nocturnal MeetingĮdgar Allan Poe – Never Bet The Devil Your Head Whether Haining made a genuine error or whether he altered it with a view to sensationalism I don’t know, but it does set the tone nicely for the thirteen stories of sorcery, Satanism, black magic and assorted witchery which follow. However, the first line has been altered for this volume “Devil-cake” should actually read “Incense-cake”. This is an excerpt from Crowley’s infamous Thelemic ritual known as The Mass of the Phoenix from his 1913 publication The Book of Lies. Haining kicks off his brief introduction with an adapted passage from Aleister Crowley: Originally published in 1968 (my copy is the 1974 edition from Ensign Books), this is one of Haining’s early anthologies. Add to this several non-horror anthologies, dozens of non-fiction books, a handful of short stories and a couple of novels, and you’ve got quite a body of work. His output was staggering, between 1965 and his death in 2007 he produced well in excess of a hundred horror anthologies. Peter Haining! Everyone’s favourite horror anthologist.
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