It was released in 1960 and was the author's second book published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 2,060 copies. The stories originally appeared in several magazines between 1946 and 1958. The collection includes Bloch's 1959 Hugo Award winning story, "That Hell-Bound Train."

    On Telling Stories • (1953) • Basil DavenportThe Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • William Fryer HarveyBy One, by Two, and by Three • (1913) • Adrian RossSredni Vashtar • (1910) • SakiThe Two Bottles of Relish • (1932) • Lord DunsanyThe Book • (1930) • Margaret IrwinThus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • John CollierMujina • (1904) • Lafcadio HearnThe Open Window • (1911) • SakiTwo Anecdotes • (1953) • AnonymousThe Closed Cabinet • (1915) • Anonymous

    Both of them just waiting for me.Only one thing stood in the way.A hot-eyed little tramp with a mind like ice and a body that could melt iron. She was out of this world, this hopped-up nymphet . . . and that's where she almost put me.Because this little girl had it all mapped out. She knew which side of the bed was buttered, and that the quickest way to the hidden loot was me . . .And murder!

    The stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.Contents include: The Music of the Yellow Brass A Classic Affair The New People Buck Fever The Magic Man Father, Dear Father Perchance to Dream Song for a Lady The Trigger The Guests of Chance (with Chad Oliver) The Love-Master A Death in the Country The Neighbors The Howling Man Night Ride

    One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.

    Sixteen-year-old Woody buys a car for forty dollars and faces many problems when he rebuilds the car so it will be safe to drive.

    

    Bonesetter the retired Navy man who runs a drugstore downstairs and a comfy harem upstairs.Zaralda the ex-stripper with the phenomenal bosom who can read Proust in a month.Myrthis who finds insects infinitely more rewarding than human beings.Spic the one-armed Mexican who keeps a general store by day and a general lookout by night.These are only some of the hilarious characters who inhabit Plankton - a lop-sided Eden that houses the zaniest community to be found outside of a psychiatric ward.

    But how can you find you quarry if you don't know who he is and your suspects are many. There's a dark-complexioned Latour, given to wandering at night and sleeping during the day. . . and handsome Baron Meinster, supposedly traveling in the Orient but rumored to be hiding in his ancient chateau. . . and the stranger, Professor Van Helsing . . . it could be anyone.Meanwhile, the victims multiply - all female, all young, and all marked with the telltale sign of the vampire. This is the first volume of "The NightMare Series" from noted film historian and author, Philip J Riley. The purpose of the series is to preserve the 50s and 60s Horror Film, movie tie-in novels that are printed on old crumbling pulp paper; to bring them in this new format for a new century. These are the original novels by various authors, not the scripts as in the editor's "Filmonster Series" and the MagicImage Filmbook series.

    Cavalry, Sergeant Rutledge was a Top Soldier. To Lt. Cantrell, his commanding officer, Rutledge was a trusted veteran fighting man.But the women and the other officers on the post called Rutledge a murderer, a deserter, and a black rapist! It was Cantrell's job to catch Rutledge and bring him for hanging...But not before Lt. Cantrell would have the opportunity to serve as defense counsel during Rutledge's Court-Martial, and finally reveal the truth behind the violation and murder of young Lucy Dabney, daughter of Major Dabney,

    Dean Talent (1953) story by Theodore Sturgeon Listen, Children, Listen (1953) story by Wallace West The Whispering Gallery (1953) story by William F. Temple The Piping Death (1939) story by Robert Moore Williams The Ghost (1942) novelette by A.E. van Vogt Carillon of Skulls (1941) story by Lester del Rey & James H. Beard [as by Philip James ] Pile of Trouble/Hogben 3 (1948) story by Henry Kuttner

    In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, the S-man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success' - TimeAnd how does the S-man attain his S-ideal? The first step is simple. He must devour this 'deftly satirical guidebook to success' (Saturday Review) in which 'the writing... glitters with devastating remarks about behavior which make one start at their precision' (Queen). After that it's only a question of realising that' the only overt moral judgment is in the pseudonym itself, with the implication that the S-Man is his brother's killer' (Time)

    Widowed Julie Anteris is certain that her stepson Mark is in danger, but she doesn't know why, or from whom. En route home to claim his inheritance, he has met with a mysterious accident--and the only witness to it has been murdered. Now Mark, a strange, silent young man, has a "guest" whom he seems to fear.It is soon obvious to Jackie that someone is indeed trying to kill Mark. Could it be Julie herself? Or Suzie, her lovely, wild young daughter who is unreasonably hostile to Mark? Or Mark's unwelcome guest?Suddenly Jackie finds that she herself must prevent a murder without a motive, in a family at the mercy of a killer...

    Tony Benton found flaming passion in the arms of honey-haired, hot-lipped Ruth Kennedy, who floated around in a golden Cadillac. Ruth's husband ran Burk County, the fashionable sexurb filled with thrill-hungry sin-hunters who stopped at nothing to satiate their jaded appetites. Sex, unlimited, brought cash to Burk County, and Tony soon learned that working its crimson nights paid off in dollars and dolls. But Tony had complications - jet-haired Connie Davis, to whom bedded bliss meant marriage, and bewitching Elsie Grines, his boss' daughter, and Amy Slade, who was callously victimized by the town's penchant for sin. Another brutally frank novel of 1960's sizzle, by the legendary Orrie Hitt, about men who left their consciences in the city, and women who checked their morals at the supermarket.

    YoungThe Final Ingredient • shortstory by Jack SharkeyThe Seeds of Murder • shortstory by John F. SuterJust a Suggestion • shortstory by Rosel George BrownNew Wine in and Old Bottle • poem by Leah Bodine DrakeMiracle on Main Street • novelette by Robert Arthur (variant of The Wonderful Day)The Revenant • shortstory by Raymond E. BanksClimacteric • shortstory by Avram DavidsonThe Sign of the Goose • shortstory by G. C. EdmondsonCatskills in the Sky • essay by Isaac AsimovBooks: The Tedious Mr. Lovecraft • essay by Damon KnightThrough Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XXIX • shortstory by Reginald Bretnor [as by Grendel Briarton ]Callahan and the Wheelies • novelette by Stephen Barr

    PratherDeath goes to the post / Brett HallidayA lady of talent / Jonathan CraigSleep without dreams / Frank KaneOptical illusion / Richard DemingClassification : dead / Richard Marsten

    I mean, a job that any guy who knows a clutch from a carburetor could take. Well, the answer is easy. I was looking for two things - money and sex!" . . . With these words, meet Fred Bryan, one of the conscienceless stud males who infest the Learn-to_drive racket. Their pretty is wealthy, love-starved women, their fee all the traffic will bear. Fred wanted money and sex. He got plenty of both!

    Stuart]; Transstar [Raymond E. Banks]; SHORT STORIES: The Dope On Mars [Jack Sharkey]; Earthmen Bearing Gifts [Fredric Brown]; The Good Neighbors [Edgar Pangborn]; Idea Man [John Rackham]; Monkey On His Back [Charles V. De Vet]; Upstarts [L. J. Stecher]; ARTICLES: Fuels Galore [Willy Ley]; What Are Aliens Made Of? [H. L. Gold]

    Juvenile Delinquency