P. Lovecraft – The Haunter Of The DarkRobert Bloch – The Shadow From The SteepleRobert Bloch – Notebook Found In A Deserted HouseRamsey Campbell – Cold PrintBrian Lumley – The Sister CityBrian Lumley – Cement SurroundingsJames Wade – The Deep OnesColin Wilson – The Return Of The LloigorISBN 0345246888 (also seemingly used by 2000 omnibus edition)

    In fact, she couldn't be more different: no swooning, getting saved from dragons, or being whisked off by handsome princes. She knows what she wants and just how to get it.

    It was intended as an 'interim' anthology of poetry for the Leaving Certificate until such time as a more permanent volume could be devised. Twenty six years later it was replaced. In the meantime it had passed through the hands of hundreds of thousands of students in Ireland. Soundings might have been replaced but it was never fully forgotten. Old copies ended up with an individual personality honed out of manual annotations and thoughts, not all of them provided by the teacher. Scrawls in biro or pencil testified to the thoughts and daydreams many users. A surprising number of copies ended up in attics only to be rediscovered with delight many years later and to be given treasured status in new homes. One former student recalled how Soundings was the first school book to treat her as an adult. It made no concessions to the 'teenager'. It didn't patronise. Its imagery was entirely in the poetry. The typography was appalling but the cover design still resonates. A decade after its demise, second hand copies of Soundings were fetching surprising prices. It was widely discussed in chat-rooms on the web. There were increasing demands for a reprint. So here is Soundings, in its original form just as you remember it. The same stony grey soil of Patrick Kavanagh's Monaghan; T.S.Eliot's same women who come and go talking of Michaelangelo. Please enjoy once more!

    Imagine ordering a sunny day from the local weather witch, asking an appletree to answer the telephone and making a beautiful garden out of old cereal boxes. What would you do if you inherited a real hair loom, or found three ugly old ladies and a dragon on your doorstep and would you need a bicycle if you had a unicorn to ride?

    

    Includes commentary by E.B. White, Frank Sullivan, Kenneth Tynan, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker, Clifton Fadiman, and Peter de Vries.

    "300 Songs, Rhymes And Games Of Canadian Children"Beautiful colour images.Sheet music.

    

    

    The emphasis is on modern poets, especially those alive at the time of the reprinting of this book. Renaissance poets are included, and American, New Zealand, Canadian and some European poets are represented.

    Marryat. The ghost-eater, by C. M. Eddy. The secret of Goresthorpe Grange, by Sir A. C. Doyle. The Crown Derby plate, by M. Bowen. William Wilson, by E. A. Poe. he statement of Randolph Carter, by H. P. Lovecraft. On the river, by G. deMaupassant. The uncharted isle, by C. A. Smith. The bagman's story, by C. Dickens. A warning to the curious, by M. R. James. Rappaccini's daughter, by N. Hawthorne. The flowering of the strange orchid, by H. G. Wells. Mad Monkton, by W. Collins. The hound of death, by A. Christie. The banshee.-Anonymous. The albatross, by H. Bolitho. The old nurse's story, by E. Gaskell. The rocking-horse winner, by D. H. Lawrence. The diamond lens, by F. O'Brien. The fly, by G. Langelaan.