Tales of the Dead

by Bill Pronzini (Editor)

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Bill Pronzini
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Bill Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California on April 13, 1943. His first novel, The Stalker, was published in 1971. He is best known for his creation of the Nameless Detective Mystery series, as well as several westerns and novels of dark suspense. He has been a full time writer since 1969. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more show more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. He has won numerous awards including three Shamus Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Mystery Writers of America. His book Snowbound received the Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere, as the best crime novel published in France in 1988. Pronzini has established himself as a master of the Western novel as well as earning a name for himself in the dark fiction genre. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Benson, E. F. (Contributor)
Bloch, Robert (Contributor)
Brown, Fredric (Contributor)
Clifford, Sir Hugh Charles (Contributor)
Counselman, Mary Elizabeth (Contributor)
Davidson, Avram (Contributor)
de Camp, L. Sprague (Contributor)
Doyle, Arthur Conan (Contributor)
Eddy, C. M., Jr. (Contributor)
Fearn, John Russell (Contributor)
Gautier, Théophile (Contributor)
Grant, Charles L. (Contributor)
Hoch, Edward D. (Contributor)
Jacobi, Carl (Contributor)
King, Stephen (Contributor)
Lansdale, Joe R. (Contributor)
Lovecraft, H. P. (Contributor)
Malzberg, Barry N. (Contributor)
Mayhar, Ardath (Contributor)
Poe, Edgar Allen (Contributor)
Powell, Talmage (Contributor)
Pratt, Fletcher (Contributor)
Seabrook, W. B. (Contributor)
Slesar, Henry (Contributor)
Stevenson, Robert Louis (Contributor)
Walton, Bryce (Contributor)
West, Morris (Contributor)
Whitehead, Henry S. (Contributor)
Williams, Tennessee (Contributor)
Wollheim, Donald A. (Contributor)
Woolrich, Cornell (Contributor)
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn (Contributor)

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Lansdale, Joe R. (Contributor)

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Canonical title
Tales of the Dead
Alternate titles
The Arbor House Necropolis
Original publication date
1981
Disambiguation notice
This is actually an OMNIBUS of three anthologies: Voodoo! (1980), Mummy! (1980) and an anthology original to this publication: Ghoul! (1981).

"Tales of the Dead" and "The Arbor House Necropolis" have identical contents... (show all), except "Tales of the Dead" drops the Lansdale story "The White Rabbit."

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Fiction and Literature, Horror
DDC/MDS
813.0872 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
LCC
PS648 .H6 .A7 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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