Title: The Dead Valley Title Record # 84622
Author: Ralph Adams Cram
Date: 1895-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
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Year Language Title 1999ⓘTranslated by Michael Siefener German Das Tote Tal 2014ⓘTranslated by Frank Rainer Scheck German Das Tal des Todes 2022ⓘTranslated by Gustavo Terranova Portuguese O vale morto 2023ⓘTranslated by unknown; Gianluca Venditti or J. G. Kaufman. Italian La valle morta

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Black Spirits & White: A Book of Ghost Stories	1895-00-00	Ralph Adams Cram	Stone & Kimball (Carnation #III)		$1.00?$: US dollar	151	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories	1896-03-00	Ralph Adams Cram	Chatto & Windus (Handy Novels)		1/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	151	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories	1896-03-00	Ralph Adams Cram	Chatto & Windus		1/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	151	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Ghosts, Grim and Gentle: A Collection of Moving Ghost Stories	1926-00-00	ed. Joseph Lewis French	Dodd, Mead & Co.		$2.00?$: US dollar	v+ 292	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Ghost Story Omnibus	1933-00-00	Joseph Lewis French	Dodd, Mead & Co.		$2.00?$: US dollar	vii+ 365+ 292	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Perturbed Spirits: A Book of Ghost and Terror Stories	1954-00-00	ed. R. C. Bull	Arthur Barker		12/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	287	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Perturbed Spirits	1958-00-00	ed. R. C. Bull	Dragon Books	D20	2/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	191	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Frankenstein Reader	1962-00-00	ed. Calvin Beck	Ballantine Books	F680	$0.50?$: US dollar	159	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Richard Powers
Horror Times Ten	1967-06-00	ed. Alden H. Norton	Berkley Medallion	X1414	$0.60?$: US dollar	176	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Horror Times Ten	1968-06-00	ed. Alden H. Norton	Berkley Medallion	X1414	$0.60?$: US dollar	176	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Black Spirits & White: A Book of Ghost Stories	1971-00-00	Ralph Adams Cram	Books for Libraries Press (Short Story Index Reprint Series)	0-8369-3971-9		151	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Horror Times Ten	1971-12-00	ed. Alden H. Norton	Berkley Medallion	0-425-01414-2	$0.60?$: US dollar	176	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	1971-12-00	ed. Robert Aickman	Fontana	0-00-612789-4	£0.25?£: UK pound	190	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Horror Times Ten	1972-02-00	ed. Alden H. Norton	Berkley Medallion	0-425-01414-2	$0.60?$: US dollar	176	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Ghosts, Castles, and Victims: Studies in Gothic Terror	1974-08-00	ed. Barbara H. Wolf, Jack C. Wolf	Fawcett Crest	Q1997	$1.50?$: US dollar	576	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	1975-04-00	ed. Robert Aickman	Fontana	0-00-613926-4	£0.45?£: UK pound	190	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories	1979-03-00	ed. Robert Aickman	Fontana	0-00-613926-4	£0.70?£: UK pound	190	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century	1983-05-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh	Beaufort Books	0-8253-0128-9	$16.95?$: US dollar	368	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Dead Valley	1984-00-00	Ralph Adams Cram	Necronomicon Press	0-318-04711-X	$1.50?$: US dollar	8	ph?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	chap
101 Science Fiction Stories	1986-06-00	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Jenny-Lynn Waugh	Avenel Books	0-517-60669-0	$7.98?$: US dollar	xvii+ 651	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Romas
The Giant Book of Science Fiction Stories	1992-00-00	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Jenny-Lynn Waugh	Magpie Books	1-85487-150-1	£3.99?£: UK pound	xvii+ 651	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Jim Burns
Black Spirits and White	1993-04-00	Ralph Adams Cram	Necronomicon Press	0-940884-54-2	$5.95?$: US dollar	43	ph?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	coll
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror	1993-11-00	ed. Dave Carson, Stephen Jones	Barnes & Noble Books	1-56619-496-2	$7.98?$: US dollar	xii+ 450	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Bruce Pennington
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror	1994-04-00	ed. Dave Carson, Stephen Jones	Robinson	1-85487-231-1	£6.99?£: UK pound	xii+ 450	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Bruce Pennington
Creepy Classics II	1997-00-00	ed. Doris Stuart	Lowell House	1-56565-716-0	$5.95?$: US dollar	viii+ 120	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Barbara Kiwak
Great Weird Tales	1998-12-00	ed. S. T. Joshi	Dover Publications	0-486-40436-6	$8.95?$: US dollar	xi+ 239	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole	1999-03-00	ed. Frank Festa	Blitz (H. P. Lovecrafts Bibliothek des Schreckens #1)	3-932171-98-5	DM 19.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	171	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Babbarammdass
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole	2000-05-00	ed. Frank Festa	Blitz (H. P. Lovecrafts Bibliothek des Schreckens #1)	3-932171-98-5	DM 19.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	171	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Babbarammdass
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole	2002-06-00	ed. Frank Festa	Festa (H. P. Lovecrafts Bibliothek des Schreckens #2601)	3-935822-38-3	€16.00?€: Euro	172	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Babbarammdass
Classic Horror Stories: Sixteen Legendary Stories of the Supernatural	2003-00-00	ed. Charles A. Coulombe	Lyons Press	1-59228-200-8	$9.95?$: US dollar	xiv+ 333	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The World's Greatest Horror Stories	2004-03-00	ed. Dave Carson, Stephen Jones	Barnes & Noble Books	0-7607-5466-7	$7.95?$: US dollar	xii+ 450	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Simon Marsden
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories	2004-11-30	Ralph Adams Cram	Tartarus Press	1-872621-88-0	£30.00?£: UK pound	xxi+ 145	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Die Pflanzen des Dr. Cinderella: 25 unheimliche Geschichten	2007-03-00	ed. Frank Festa	Festa (Festa Allgemeine Reihe #1609)	978-3-86552-046-3	€14.00?€: Euro	445	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Dave Kendall
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror	2008-00-00	ed. Dave Carson, Stephen Jones	Fall River Press	978-1-4351-0745-8	$7.98?$: US dollar	532	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Igor Satanovsky
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories	2008-09-22	Ralph Adams Cram	Project Gutenberg	26687			ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps	2009-00-00	ed. Peter Straub	The Library of America (The Library of America #196)	978-1-59853-047-6	$35.00?$: US dollar	xv+ 746	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Andy Kerry , MIchelle Kerry
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories	2009-01-30	Ralph Adams Cram	The Echo Library	978-1-4068-9255-0	£6.54?£: UK pound	60	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories	2009-04-03	Ralph Adams Cram	Dodo Press	978-1-4099-4675-5	$12.99?$: US dollar	84	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 8	2010-02-26	ed. LibriVox	LibriVox		$0.00?$: US dollar		digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	anth
Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 10	2010-08-08	ed. LibriVox	LibriVox		$0.00?$: US dollar		digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	anth
Shadows Gothic and Grotesque	2010-10-11	Ralph Adams Cram, James Platt	Coachwhip Publications	978-1-61646-059-4	$14.95?$: US dollar	214	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of E. G. Swain & Ralph Adams Cram	2011-09-27	Ralph Adams Cram, E. G. Swain	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-083-9	$16.99?$: US dollar	212	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of E. G. Swain & Ralph Adams Cram: The Stoneground Ghost Tales & Black Spirits and White - Fifteen Short Tales to Chill the Blood	2011-09-27	Ralph Adams Cram, E. G. Swain	Leonaur Ltd	978-0-85706-084-6	£17.99?£: UK pound	212	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories	2014-03-10	Ralph Adams Cram	The Midnight Press	978-1-4961-9160-1	$5.99?$: US dollar	104	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil: Bevor Lovecraft kam, Band 1	2014-05-00	ed. Erik Hauser, Frank Rainer Scheck	Blitz (Blitz Meisterwerke der dunklen Phantastik #1401)	978-3-95719-901-0	€12.95?€: Euro	367	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Jean Delville
The Gothic Terror Megapack	2015-01-28	ed. Shawn M. Garrett	Wildside Press (Megapack)	978-1-4794-0229-8	$0.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth
H. P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Stories	2016-00-00	Stefan Dziemianowicz	Fall River Press	978-1-4351-6281-5	$7.98?$: US dollar	760	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Great Horror Stories: 101 Chilling Tales	2016-12-29	ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz	Fall River Press	978-1-4351-6441-3	$7.98?$: US dollar	xii+ 755	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Lovecrafts dunkle Idole Band I & II	2018-07-04	Frank Festa	Festa	978-3-86552-663-2	€13.99?€: Euro	608	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Timo Wuerz
American Gothic Short Stories	2019-07-29	ed. uncredited	Flame Tree Publishing (Gothic Fantasy)	978-1-78755-295-1	£20.00?£: UK pound	480	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Realidades alternativas, Outubro 2022	2022-10-00	ed. Gustavo Terranova	Editora Andarilho (Realidades alternativas #7)		R$35.00?R$: Brazilian real	87	ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	mag	Inteligência Artificial?Inteligencia Artificial
La biblioteca di Lovecraft 2	2023-03-01	ed. Jacopo Corazza, Gianluca Venditti	Edizioni Arcoiris (La biblioteca di Lovecraft #10)	978-88-99877-91-0	€12.00?€: Euro	136	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
101 Science Fiction Stories	date unknown	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Jenny-Lynn Waugh	Avenel Books	0-517-60669-0	$7.98?$: US dollar	651	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Romas
Creepy Classics II	date unknown	ed. Doris Stuart	Lowell House	0-7373-9988-0	$4.95?$: US dollar	viii+ 120	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Barbara Kiwak
Great Horror Stories: 101 Chilling Tales	date unknown	ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz	Fall River Press (BG-Classic Editions)	978-1-4351-6441-3		xii+ 755	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth

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Reviews

• Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction
• Review by Will Murray (1985) in Crypt of Cthulhu, Eastertide 1985