Murgunstrumm and Others
0-913796-02-6OCLC 3684238 1975–2000 2001–present
Murgunstrumm and Others is a collection of horror short stories by author Hugh B. Cave. It was released in 1977 by Carcosa in an edition of 2,578 copies of which the 597 copies, that were pre-ordered, were signed by the author and artist. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Weird Tales, Spicy Mystery Stories, Ghost Stories, Thrilling Mysteries, Black Book Detective Magazine, Argosy, Adventure, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Whispers. It has since been reissued by Wildside Press in trade paperback and hardcover.
Awards
- 1978, World Fantasy Award, Best Collection/Anthology.[1]
Contents
- Foreword
- "Murgunstrumm"
- "The Watcher in the Green Room"
- "The Prophecy"
- "The Strange Death of Ivan Gromleigh"
- "The Affair of the Clutching Hand"
- "The Strange Case of No. 7"
- "The Isle of Dark Magic"
- "The Whisperers"
- "Horror in Wax"
- "Prey of the Nightborn"
- "Maxon’s Mistress"
- "Dead Man’s Belt"
- "Boomerang"
- "The Crawling Curse"
- "Purr of a Cat"
- "Tomorrow Is Forever"
- "The Ghoul Gallery"
- "The Cult of the White Ape"
- "The Brotherhood of Blood"
- "The Door of Doom"
- "The Death Watch"
- "The Caverns of Time"
- "Many Happy Returns"
- "Ladies in Waiting"
- "The Grisley Death"
- "Stragella"
Reprints
- 2004, United States, Wildside Press ISBN 0-8095-0069-8, Pub date November, 2004, Paperback, print on demand
Notes
- ^ "1978 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees". World Fantasy Convention. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
References
- Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2004)". Retrieved 2008-04-05.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 137.
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World Fantasy Award—Collection
- Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman (1975)
- The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson (1976)
- Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
- Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave (1978)
- Shadows by Charles L. Grant (1979)
- Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
- Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
- The Dark Country by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
- Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983)
- High Spirits by Robertson Davies (1984)
- Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker (1985)
- Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley (1986)
- Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr. (1987)
- The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (1988)
- Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe (1989, tie)
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson (1990)
- The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller (1991)
- The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard (1992)
- The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady (1993)
- Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1994)
- The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton (1995)
- The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
- The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
- The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton (1998)
- Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (1999)
- Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)
- Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (2001)
- Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
- The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
- Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004)
- Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005)
- The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (2006)
- Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (2007)
- Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2008)
- The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (2009)
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (2010, tie)
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