The Pan Book of Horror Stories by Herbert van Thal

If you ask me, I don't think the earwig would do that. When he learns of their affair, Thring avenges himself by inserting an earwig into Macy's ear which burrows its way through his head and out the other side, eating his brain as it goes. Another love-triangle, again set in Borneo, this one involving two planters, Clifford Macy and Leopold Thring, and the latter's new bride, Rhona. It's a Darkest Asia tale told in gentleman’s club as usual. This is actually terrible but it's a good idea of what you got as a horror story seventy years ago. Trouble is, you read one cannibal story, you kind of read them all. He saw with a final glance that Laffler and Sbirro were already at the kitchen door, Sbirro holding the door invitingly wide with one hand, while the other rested, almost tenderly, on Laffler’s meaty shoulders. Stanley Ellin - 'The Speciality Of The House'Ī guy is introduced to the delights of Shirro's restaurant, the finest men-only(!!) restaurant one could ever wish to find, especially when 'Lamb Amirstan' is on the menu. Down below his friends have got bored and are leaving. When he gets nearly to the top he finds the last ten feet of ladder has rusted away. He tells himself there will be some kind of platform at the top of the ladder. He gets to forty feet up and it hits him how crazy and dangerous this is. After some banter, bragging and teasing he can't back down, so up he goes. They lark about and one of the boys, trying to impress one of the girls, says he could easily climb up the six-storey-high gasometer, which has a rusty ladder attached to the side. Not my favourite of this series, but here's a summary of the best stories :īrilliant - A bunch of teenagers are loafing around and come to some disused gasworks.

The Pan Book of Horror Stories by Herbert van Thal