A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him. Konstantin Ershov , Georgiy Kropachyov Stars: R min Drama, Horror. A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
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G 95 min Horror. R 87 min Horror. When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming, and his niece more demonstrably so, Unrated 86 min Biography, Drama, Horror. R 90 min Drama, History, Horror. In s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job. Michael Armstrong , Adrian Hoven Stars: GP 91 min Horror. In Elizabethan England, a wicked lord massacres nearly all the members of a coven of witches, earning the enmity of their leader, Oona.
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Sir Christopher Lee plays the Lord Chief Justice of seventeenth century England who condemns women as witches to further his political and sexual needs. Cynthia Kyle enters puberty with a vengeance, murdering her parents as they make love: Eight years later, she's free and wants to marry, but Ray Dennis Steckler Stars: R min Biography, Drama, History. In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu.
Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun. R 97 min Horror. Horror thriller set in 17th century England about the children of a village slowly converting into a coven of devil worshipers. R 85 min Horror. A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims.
Young Katy, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region. R min Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Alan Alda's character is a music journalist whose career as a piano player came to an end when his debut concert received undeservedly scathing reviews. R 99 min Horror. Simon, a young man with magic powers, invokes the help of the evil forces in order to take revenge on a man who cheated him with a bad cheque. R 88 min Horror. Christine gets her big chance at modeling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency.
Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a house in the country for the weekend for a photo PG min Horror. In the 13th century there existed a legion of evil knights known as the Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices. Executed for their unholy Amando de Ossorio Stars: R 86 min Horror. A coven of witches captures a young man traveling through the woods.
He gets involved in a power struggle between a beautiful witch and the evil queen who heads the coven. R min Drama. R 88 min Horror, Thriller. A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers.
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Creepy tale about a sorrowful night passed in a nightmarish castle, so the house of the demon. Many horror elements are mixed with erotic atmosphere. R min Horror. When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. PG 73 min Horror, Thriller. Lorraine and Mark enter the world of witchcraft where Mara foretells the future and helps them remember their past lives. When a series of mysterious murders begin to occur, they turn to Dr. Unrated 98 min Horror. A group of vampires keep the body of a witch in a castle cellar. They require virgin blood to resurrect her.
A party of people arrive and things kick off. Not Rated 95 min Horror, Mystery. A tourist spends the night in a derelict Spanish villa seemingly held in the supernatural grip of an eccentric butler, who resembles a depiction of the Devil she had seen on an ancient fresco. R 83 min Horror. Lady Dracula uses Dracula's ring to lure beautiful girls to her castle, where she murders them so she can bathe in their blood. Not Rated 89 min Horror. An Indian mystic uses magical chants to raise women from the dead, then sends them out to perform revenge killings for him.
Unrated 91 min Horror. In London in the s, Scotland Yard police investigators think they have uncovered a case of vampirism. Such volumes recounting earlier tradition are common in all ancient cultures. The best-known is the Bible , the books of which were written down between about BC and BC Old Testament and between AD40 and AD New Testament , although the version we know today did not come into being until compiled by Jerome circa in the 4th century.
This device was used to considerable effect by Giovanni Boccaccio in his Decameron , and was taken up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales? Such volumes are thus the precursors of modern anthologies. They all feature the Twice-Told tale, with the concentration on Story , which is symptomatic of fantasy. As other examples we can mention: When more formal anthologies emerged they likewise assembled stories from anonymous or attributable sources which were themselves based on Folktales.
During the 18th century, literary collections, often called miscellanies, began to appear with increasing frequency, some — such as The Ladies Tale ed anon and Winter Evening Tales ed anon — utilizing the oft-repeated frame device of stories told by each person among an assembled group. Several of these stories, though not all, might be macabre, with some venturing into the territory of Supernatural Fiction.
The first English-language anthology of fantastic tales was Tales of the East anth compiled for Walter Scott by his literary assistant, Henry William Weber It is a massive collection of Oriental Fantasies. Scott had long been interested in Oriental and Gothic fiction, and had planned to assemble an anthology of the latter with Matthew Gregory Lewis , but financial straits precluded it.
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Instead he issued Tales of Terror: An Apology anth chap , a privately printed limited-edition booklet of 12 macabre poems by himself, Lewis and Robert Southey. Lewis, with Scott's help, did assemble an anthology of Horror verse, Tales of Wonder anth Between them, Scott, Lewis and Weber laid the basis for the interest in the selection and promotion of Gothic and Oriental fiction and verse in anthology form.
At the same time appeared possibly the most influential anthology of Gothic fiction, Tales of the Dead anth , translated and compiled by Sarah Utterson? Since then over anthologies of supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction have been published. These are discussed separately with some unavoidable overlap in the sections below: Distinguishing between Fantasy and the mundane was not an issue to early writers, by whom the existence of Gods and the supernatural was taken for granted.
Similarly, until fantasy became a marketable product in the s, little attempt was made to define it as distinct from other genres. This discussion recognizes fantasy as both a that field of literature that has Myth and Folklore as its roots and b a latter-day marketing niche.
The earliest compilations of traditional tales often included, alongside more mundane tales, accounts of the fantastic, with such events treated as everyday occurrences. Stories in which the fantastic was distinguished from mundane reality did not start to emerge until the 18th century. The first popular anthology of the fantastic was the series of Arabian Fantasies Les Mille et Une Nuits anth , compiled by Antoine Galland These and other Oriental Fantasies dominated popular fiction of the century, and led eventually to the first comprehensive anthology of such stories, Tales of the East anth by Henry William Weber Weber also edited a volume of Fantastic Voyages , Popular Romances anth These volumes emphasize Weber's pioneering role as collector and anthologist.
The work of these writers was a significant influence on UK writers and on Edgar Allan Poe , but more specifically on the development of Supernatural Fiction. Fairytales, folktales, the wider world of myths and Legends and the emerging world of the Literary Fairytale thus dominated fantastic literature in the 19th century, with much of the work increasingly aimed either at younger readers or at folklorists and ethnologists, with little serious attempt to publish anthologies of fantasy for general adult readers.
Anthologies at this time consisted almost wholly of horror and ghost stories, and even The Garden of Romance anth by Ernest Rhys included stories by Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne in its wider selection of fantasy. More typical was Tales of Fantasy anth ed Tudor Jenks ; this reprinted similar folktales and legends, but packaged them for young readers. Significant in this area were the tales retold by Andrew Lang in his variously coloured Fairy Books.
Despite the publication at this stage of the works of William Morris and Lord Dunsany , fantasy seemed inextricably linked to the fairytale, and almost all anthologies were so tailored. One rare exception was Through the Forbidden Gates anth ed anon by Herman Umbstaetter , a selection of strange and unusual stories from the magazine The Black Cat. These stories were often on the borderline of the fantastic, and are really early examples of Slick Fantasy. The creation of this genre occurred predominantly in the Magazines , and followed in book form only when anthologists mined magazines for appropriate stories.
The pioneering anthologist Joseph L French assembled several such volumes, in particular The Best Psychic Stories anth , which looked at the wider world of the supernatural beyond Ghosts and Spirits , and his four-volume Masterpieces of Mystery anth , which included several stories of the inexplicable. Although the occasional fantasy story continued to appear, ghost and horror stories dominated anthologies until after WWII. The pioneering anthology of modern fantasy was Pause to Wonder anth ed Marjorie Fischer and Rolfe Humphries Fischer and Humphries extended their selection in Strange To Tell anth , with stories from around Europe.
This volume showed that fantastic literature was more prevalent on the Continent than in the UK. Two other wartime anthologies did attempt to acknowledge the development of fantasy outside the UK and USA: Both contained stories of the Surreal, and the latter was one of the first in English to anthologize Latin American stories of Magic Realism. Encouraged by the public acceptance of these volumes, publishers became bolder.
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In The Mandrake Root: An Anthology of Fantastic Tales anth her final introductory note emphasized that the stories focused on the inexplicable in the known, or the intrusion of the unreal into the real, which we have defined in this encyclopedia to be the province of Supernatural Fiction. In the second volume, At Close of Eve anth , the introduction was handed over to Daniel George who, after listing many categories of fiction that fall under the heading of fantasy, defined the genre as "any piece of fiction in which the action transgresses what in our opinion is natural law".
Dick's third volume, The Uncertain Element anth , stopped trying to define the field and instead presented mostly new stories and factual accounts of the bizarre and macabre. These were ostensibly supernatural anthologies, but were among the first to take the traditional limit of the supernatural beyond the run-of-the-mill ghost story into more imaginative extravagances.
In so doing they widened the public's awareness of the field. Meanwhile, in the USA, paperback publishing was emerging from the pulp Magazine field. He did not attempt to define fantasy, other than by example, and his selections covered the whole spectrum of fantastic literature, including sf, although this was kept to a minimum. At this time the Avon Fantasy Reader had a stronger influence on the magazine field than on books. The most literary of fantasy anthologies in the s came from Ray Bradbury: These were the first US mass-circulation paperback anthologies to select literary fantasies, and were important in laying the groundwork for the new generation.
It was not until the appearance of Best Fantasy Stories anth ed Brian W Aldiss that a similar anthology would take the next step, into the s. Two other anthologies in what was otherwise a wasteland of fantastic fiction in the s also put down some foundations. Shanadu anth ed Robert E Briney was not only the first Small-Press original anthology of any scale but had the first Shared-World setting in Genre Fantasy. Aside from Aldiss's volume, a few anthologies in the early s began to break away from the usual run of horror and supernatural: The growing need for marketing niches in the paperback world had led to the creation of a new subgenre of Heroic Fantasy , dubbed Sword and Sorcery by Fritz Leiber.
These were fantasies set in Secondary Worlds or Otherworlds whose plots were reliant on mighty warriors battling evil sorcerers, as typified by Robert E Howard's Conan stories. This last, as an interesting example of marketing synchronicity, appeared within months of the UK anthology Warlocks and Warriors anth ed Douglas Hill There were also two series of original anthologies, Flashing Swords! None of these improved upon de Camp's anthologies, all settling for the basic warrior-vs-wizard scenario.
This was also true of the Year's Best Fantasy Stories series 14 vols first 6 vols ed Carter, last 8 vols ed Arthur W Saha, which under Carter printed solely heroic fantasy.
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A more representative selection was made in various series edited by Terry Carr , starting with New Worlds of Fantasy 3 vols. This deliberately excluded heroic fantasy in favour of stories at "the borders of man's imagination" and, in lieu of a definition, sought to establish the extremes of fantasy in the real world.
Carr explored this further in 2 , stating that "fantasy is the literary equivalent of dreams", by which he meant that fantasy was plumbing the depths of the psyche. This was the first paperback anthology series to give consideration to the wider world of fantasy. Carr later explored this on an annual basis in The Year's Finest Fantasy 2 vols; vt in 3 vols Fantasy Annual , although it was not until the leviathan efforts of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling in their annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror from ; first 2 vols vt Demons and Dreams UK that the field secured its Egon Ronay.
The s saw fantasy seeking to define itself. Unlike the case in sf, academics have found it difficult to grapple with fantasy. Attempts were made to analyse the field by example in Fantasy: A Collection of Gothic Fantasy anth , whose subtitle sought to exemplify the roots of the fantastic; The Fantastic Imagination anth 2 vols , which considered high fantasy; The Phoenix Tree anth , which explored Myth fantasy; and Visions of Wonder anth , which sought to explore Christian Fantasy.
The first academic breakthrough, however, came with Fantastic Worlds anth ed Eric S Rabkin , which sought to codify and establish a pedigree for fantastic literature. Other publishers recognized this distinctive marketing niche for anthologies that covered the full extent of fantasy. The main run of subsequent anthologies, however, limited themselves almost solely to Magazine fantasy and are far less representative than their titles might suggest. The more rewarding anthologies are those which seek to re-evaluate the borders of fantasy and, in so doing, reabsorb the literary fairytale which decades earlier had been exiled to the sphere of Children's Fantasy , despite the fact that many were written on several levels.
As noted, the English-language edition of the Borges, Ocampo and Bioy Casares anthology directed attention towards the international dimension of fantasy. Though the scope for such omnifarious compendia has been recognized by the widening audience for fantasy, the straightforward heroic-fantasy anthology has remained fundamental since de Camp's breakthrough in Fantasy as a genre has found itself becalmed by the vastness of its own ocean, and, although the anthologies of the past 30 years have striven to give it an identity, they are only now establishing sufficient momentum to give it a direction.
The more traditional anthology of Supernatural Fiction , containing stories of Ghosts , Vampires , Werewolves and the occult, accounts for the largest body of books within the overall spectrum of anthologies of the Fantastic. Several anonymous collections were made of likewise anonymous German tales, so it is often difficult to distinguish anthologies from single-author collections. However, Tales of the Wild and Wonderful anth , which has been mistakenly credited to George Borrow , is a genuine anthology of various European tales, recalled by the editor from his childhood and freely retold to fit the literary fashion in the wake of Byronic Romanticism.
The book which to all intents started the movement was Tales of the Dead anth The stories had been translated by Sarah Utterson? Gespensterbuch contained darker and more sinister Folktales than those being collected at the same time by the Grimm Brothers — indeed, the tales were deliberately revised to reflect the dark side of nature. A Tale chap. This anthology must thus be seen as seminal. The Gothic and Romantic movements were at their height, and many volumes sought to cash in on the market. Coming at the end of the popular movement, this last volume offered new translations of more recent and lesser-known stories.
But already the UK was growing tired of Gothic fiction and, in particular, the Gothic Ghost Story — so much so that, as early as , Rudolph Ackermann published Ghost Stories Collected with a Particular View to Counteract the Vulgar Belief in Ghosts and Apparitions anth , a volume which sought to rationalize and de-sensationalize. Nevertheless, the ghost story per se , moralized and internalized by writers like J Sheridan Le Fanu and Charles Dickens , continued to thrive and prosper during the Victorian era.
The main source for supernatural short fiction during this period was the popular Magazines. These special issues frequently contained ghost stories, and increasingly they became distinct from the magazine proper: Annuals continued to be a feature of magazine publishing until WWI but, as early as the late Victorian period, anthologies in their own right had begun to reappear.
At least three of the volumes were composed predominantly of supernatural fiction — although the terms "supernatural" and "ghost story" were deliberately avoided in order to subdue accusations of sensationalism; the relevant volumes were thus called Stories of Intellect anth , Stories of Mystery anth and Stories of Tragedy anth , all including stories by Edward Bulwer-Lytton , Edgar Allan Poe , Charles Dickens , Catherine Crowe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A significant publication in the UK was Dreamland and Ghostland anth 3 vols ed anon and published by George Redway; drawing heavily on newspapers like London Society , it was the first book to anthologize several of Arthur Conan Doyle 's stories. The s saw a flurry of interest in the occult, but the improving quality of related fiction was reflected more in novels and magazines than in anthologies. A few series recognized the international status of supernatural fiction, though neither Nuggets for Travellers 12 vols — of which five volumes covered Weird Fiction from the USA, England, Germany, Ireland and Scotland — or Terrible Tales 4 vols — selecting stories from France, Germany, Italy and Spain — contained anything modern or original.
The very title of Modern Ghosts anth — 15 in the Continental Classics series assembled by the editorial staff at Harper's — showed an attempt to move away from the traditional ghost story. The stories, particularly those by Guy de Maupassant , showed the supernatural as a manifestation as much of the mind as of spirits. This anthology was well regarded because of the prestige of its publisher; it was later mined by Farnsworth Wright , who reprinted most of the stories in Weird Tales. Magazines ruled the first 20 years of the 20th century, and few significant supernatural anthologies were published.
Other than Uncanny Stories anth and More Uncanny Stories anth , both ed anon and selecting stories from The Novel Magazine , there was no other supernatural anthology until the post-WWI revival of Spiritualism caused a sudden resurgence of the subgenre. The first swathe of new anthologies came from journalists who also worked as editors for mass-market publishers, and they selected fairly obvious Victorian and Edwardian stories.
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French's most distinctive anthology was The Best Psychic Stories anth , which, in seeking to explore Spiritualism, selected more modern and original material, including some nonfiction. His other anthologies of interest were Masterpieces of Mystery anth 4 vols; vol 2 titled Ghost Stories and Tales of Terror anth French's rival at the publisher Thomas Crowell was Joseph W McSpadden , who compiled the similar anthologies Famous Ghost Stories anth — almost a copy of French's first volume, even though compiled contemporaneously — and Famous Psychic Stories anth , both assembled as Famous Psychic and Ghost Stories omni ; these were less original than French's selections.
In the UK supernatural fiction was given the stamp of respectability by the editor of Everyman's Library , Ernest Rhys, who produced The Haunted and the Haunters anth which, despite the inclusion of Edward Bulwer-Lytton 's title story, was an eclectic selection, relying on stories and factual accounts that drew upon folklore and tradition. Another popular title of the period was A Muster of Ghosts anth ; vt The Best Ghost Stories US ed Bohun Lynch , which selected lesser-known but more commercial fiction, and is notable for being the first book to anthologize "Thurnley Abbey" by Perceval Landon The field was rapidly explored by educationalists.
The pioneer was the US academic Dorothy Scarborough Having already published her seminal work, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction , she compiled two representative anthologies — Famous Modern Ghost Stories anth and Humorous Ghost Stories anth — which were the first important modern Ghost-Story anthologies. The depth of her research is evidenced by the inclusion of a much wider range of material, including several stories which remain uncommon to this day.
Her work was soon matched in the UK by Ghosts and Marvels: Its greatest importance lies in its introduction, by M R James , who sets down his views on and rules for the ghost story. The anthology's success led to More Ghosts and Marvels: A significant development in the s was the publication of an anthology of mainly original ghost stories.