UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY
Peter Haining
Also known as: Peter Alexander Haining, Peter Haning
> Peter Haining ist ein bekannter Autor und Herausgeber makaberer Literatur. Seine Bücher wurden in mehreren Sprachen auf der ganzen Welt veröffentlicht. > > Er lebt in Suffolk, England, und ist Besitzer einer umfangreichen Bibliothek mit seltenen Büchern und Schriften, woraus er eine ganze Menge seines Arbeitsmaterials bezieht. Außerdem kennt er viele große Autoren dieser Literaturgattung persönlich. > > Unter Kennern hat sich Peter Haining in Deutschland bereits einen Namen ge-macht. Nachdem schon mehrere Gruselanthologien für Erwachsene von ihm veröffentlicht wurden, werden jetzt in der Reihe »Hainings Gruselkabinett« Gruselanthologien für Jugendliche und Erwachsene herausgegeben. > > Aber auch die Erzählungen dieses zweiten Bandes dieser Reihe sind nichts für ängstliche Gemüter. Heiß und kalt zugleich rieselt es einem den Rücken hinab - das Blut erstarrt in den Adern! Vor Lektüre um Mitternacht wird gewarnt! — [Hainings Gruselkabinett: Das Spukhaus am Fluß](/books/OL61904419M/)
They call it 'anthropophagy': literally, to consume humans.
— from Cannibal killers
Most acclaimed
Murder on the Menu
1992
Annie, Eve, and their former cooking teacher are in the trenches, trying to keep a new restaurant, Bellywasher's, from going belly up.Everything's simmering along just fine until Annie and Eve find their friend Sarah, staffer to a powerful congressman, lying dead in her tub. The cops want to write it off as a suicide, but the facts just don't add up. Then, after a series of suspicious "accidents," Annie and Eve realize that this kitchen fire isn't about to put itself out.
The Ghouls
1971
from the dust-jacket: "The Ghouls: edited by Peter Haining, with an introduction by Vincent Price and an afterword by Christopher Lee" "Will any of us ever forget the first time we saw Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney? Or The Beast with Five Fingers with Peter Lorre? Or Die, Monster, Die with Boris Karloff? Whether we saw them as first-run films at the local theater or are only now becoming addicted to 'Chiller Theater' on television, the ghoul-watchers among us are in for a rare treat. The Ghouls is a horror film buff's dream. Peter Haining has collected the stories on which eighteen of the very best horror films were based..." "...In his introductions to each story, Mr. Haining provides a brief look at the story itself and the films made from it, including some fascinating bits of information about the making of the motion picture." Stories included: The Devil in a convent, by F. O. Mann The lunatics, by E. A. Poe Puritan passions, by N. Hawthorne Phantom of the opera, by G. Leroux The magician, by S. Maugham Freaks, by T. Robbins [Most dangerous game]( by R. Connell Dracula's daughter, by B. Stoker All that money can buy, by S. V. Bent The body snatcher, by R. L. Stevenson The beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey The beast from 20,000 fathoms, by R. Bradbury The fly, by G. Langelaan Black Sunday, by N. Gogol [Incident at Owl Creek]( by A. Bierce Monster of terror, by H. P. Lovecraft The skull, by R. Bloch The oblong box, by E. A. Poe
Dead of night
For years UN peacekeepers have been deployed to war-torn regions of the world, now it's America's turn. A crippling terrorist attack has left the United States cities deserted, it's countryside set ablaze and the government shaken to its knees. Then in the aftermath of the attack civil war has broken out, that is until the UN arrives to restore peace. Sam Simpson is a young idealistic journalist from Canada who is looking for some adventure. So he volunteers to become a record-keeper for a UN war-crimes investigation team at work in upper New York State. While Sam and his team are travelling through the New York countryside, they are searching for evidence of war atrocities, they soon learn that death can strike from any farmhouse, road corner or rest area. But even more chilling than that is when he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in their group, who is trying not only to conceal evidence of this war crime but who is willing to kill them all to do it...