Seon Manley
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>Janet Helen "Seon" Givens (1921-2009) and Mona "Gogo" Givens (1923-2008) were sisters who were raised in Connecticut and began collecting books as children. After college, they moved to New York City and became familiar faces in literary circles. Seon married Robert Manley, and Gogo married William Lewis. >Beginning in the early 1960s, Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis compiled over twenty anthologies which included subjects ranging from the natural world and science. The sisters drew inspiration for their anthologies from their private libraries and personal interests. Their main focus was collecting and publishing anthologies of stories about ghosts and the supernatural. From 1973 to 1979, the famous illustrator Edward Gorey created covers for eight titles by Manley & Lewis, all but one of which focused on tales by female authors.
Books
Magic
128 p. : 29 cm
Masters of the Macabre
An anthology of horror and suspense tales arranged chronologically from early Gothic writing characterized by Mary Shelley to detective stories of today by Ellery Queen and Dorothy Sayers. Clanking armor, magic helmets, haunted castles and corridors, great groans and magic potions recall the era of the original gothic romantic tales of the eighteenth century. From these supernatural roots spring the varied and always popular stories of mystery, horror, and detection by the masters of the literary arts of sensationalism and terror. Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis have selected seventeen chilling examples of short gothic, detective, ghost, sus-pense, and science fiction masterpieces. There is an originally unpublished section of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the exciting and peculiar horror of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the medical mysteries of L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, the subtle ghosts of Ambrose Bierce, the psychological suspense of Robert Lewis Stevenson, the anti-heroes of Graham Greene, the weird phantasmagoria of horror of H. P. Lovecraft, and the many murderous methods of Dorothy L. Sayers. Other authors included are Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan LeFanu, Amelia B. Edwards, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Fitz-James O'Brien. These MASTERS OF THE MACABRE use the power of fear to create some of the most haunting moments ever recorded on paper.
Grande Dames of Detection
Nine suspense stories by women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Rudyard Kipling, creative adventurer
Traces the development of Kipling from an unhappy, rejected boy to a successful journalist and famous author.
Masters of shades and shadows
> Ghosts galore. Ghosts in the form of red- and yellow-eyed dogs, white cats, lonely children. Ghosts who reveal themselves in smells or in other people. They are the sort that thrill everyone, believers and skeptics alike. >And these are the ghosts that Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis have selected from the works of master storytellers. Bram Stoker's growing gold will haunt you; Mary Wilkins Freeman's lost ghost will captivate you. You will be intrigued by O. Henry's furnished room and astounded by Ray Bradbury's sand- castle. >Here, presented chronologically, are tales by sixteen well-known and respected authors. From "Classic Chillers" of Dickens' time through "Twentieth-Century Touch of Ter- ror," these stories represent the best of their respective eras. It is a selection not to be missed.
Mystery
Shapes of the Supernatural
The werewolf, by H. B. Marryat. The ghost-eater, by C. M. Eddy. The secret of Goresthorpe Grange, by Sir A. C. Doyle. The Crown Derby plate, by M. Bowen. [William Wilson]( by E. A. Poe. The statement of Randolph Carter, by H. P. Lovecraft. On the river, by G. deMaupassant. The uncharted isle, by C. A. Smith. The bagman's story, by C. Dickens. A warning to the curious, by M. R. James. [Rappaccini's daughter]( by N. Hawthorne. The flowering of the strange orchid, by H. G. Wells. Mad Monkton, by W. Collins. The hound of death, by A. Christie. The banshee.-Anonymous. The albatross, by H. Bolitho. The old nurse's story, by E. Gaskell. The rocking-horse winner, by D. H. Lawrence. The diamond lens, by F. O'Brien. The fly, by G. Langelaan.
Women of the weird
Eleven "eerie" stories by women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, including Madame d'Aulnoy, Edith Nesbit, and Shirley Jackson.
Nature's revenge
Presents nine stories of suspense in which nature seeks revenge for man's interference.