The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers (1972)







New York City: Taplinger Publishing Company (book, anthology, 1st), 1972.
8.5" x 5.875" x 1", 256 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 0-8008-5042-4.

The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers, edited by Peter Haining and published by Taplinger (New York City) in 1972.

Burroughs contributes "Exterminator", pp. 247-251, reprinted from the Evergreen Review.






A softcover edition of the book published by Signet/New American Library (New York City) is also in the archive. 
7" x 4.5" x 0.625", 256 pages.

Not in Maynard & Miles.
Shoaf II.91.

Contents: 

  • Kingsley Amis: Foreword
  • Peter Haining: Introduction
  • I. British:
    • Winston Churchill: "Man Overboard"
    • John Galsworthy: "Timber"
    • G. K. Chesterton: "The Angry Street"
    • Agatha Christie: "The Call of Wings"
    • Lawrence Durrell: "The Cherries"
    • W. Somerset Maugham: "A Man from Glasgow"
    • Robert Graves: "Earth to Earth"
    • J. B. Priestley: "The Grey Ones"
    • C. S. Forester: "The Man Who Didn't Ask Why"
    • Graham Greene: "All But Empty"
    • Angus Wilson: "Animals or Human Beings"
    • Kingsley Amis: "Something Strange"
  • II. American:
    • Sinclair Lewis: "The Post-Mortem Murder"
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Dance"
    • William Faulkner: "A Rose for Emily"
    • Raymond Chandler: "The Bronze Door"
    • Mackinlay Kantor: "A Man Who Had No Eyes"
    • John Steinbeck: "The Affair at 7 rue de M–"
    • Patricia Highsmith: "The Snail Watcher"
    • Evan Hunter: "Inferiority Complex"
    • Paul Gallico: "The Terrible Answer"
    • Truman Capote: "Miriam"
    • William Burroughs: "Exterminator"
    • John Updike: "During the Jurassic"

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