The title story concerns a female yeti who pursues the quivering hero down a mountainside with the specific intention of catching and ‘mating’ with him. In his “Surprising literary ventures” column for The Spectator, Gary Dexter wrote a brief review of The Horror Horn in 2006.
Benson’s supernatural fiction in The Collected Spook Stories (five volumes, 1998 – 2005 - that’s them, below right). Benson (part of their terrific Tales of Mystery & The Supernaturalseries, which we’ve discussed many times) in 2012, and Ash-Tree Press collected all of E.F. Most of his work is now long out of print, but Wordsworth published Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. He was a frequent Weird Tales contributor and he also appeared regularly in British publications like Hutchinson’s Magazine and The Illustrated London News. We’ve never really mentioned Benson here before (although he’s popped up in horror collections from time to time, including Otto Penzler’s magnificent The Vampire Archives and Henry Mazzeo’s Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural), and that’s probably an oversight.īenson, who died in 1940, was an English novelist and short story writer, with 68 novels to his credit and 10 collections published in his lifetime. In the meantime, I did a little homework on E. But this was an exception, and I submitted my bid for $14 and sat back to see what happened. It’s rare indeed that the patient collector has to pay more than that for anything. Well, you know how reluctant I am to pay more than $8 – $10 for a paperback. The bidding stood at 5 bucks, with less than two days to go.
In fact, I didn’t even know this book existed. It had a marvelously macabre cover by Bruce that I’d never laid eyes on before. So you can understand my delight last week when I stumbled upon The Horror Horn on eBay, a 1974 collection by British horror writer E. Over the years, I’ve collected much of his work and seen a great deal more online and in various art books, but from time to time I’m still surprised to see a previously undiscovered Pennington cover on a hard-to-find book (as I was with the Panther edition of Fritz Leiber’s Night Monsters back in January.) I talked at length about my own interest in his art - and how we licensed two of his paintings as covers for Black Gate - in The Lost Art of Bruce Pennington. Is Bruce Pennington the finest cover artist in publishing history?
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