• Publication: Prince of DarknessPublication Record # 811854
• Editor: Gerald Verner
• Date: 1951-03-00
• Publisher: Rider & Co.
• Price:
  7/6^?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).
• Pages: 250
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 5217281
  • Reginald-1: 14655A

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Prince of Darkness) • (1946) • essay by Gerald Verner
• The Covens • (1946) • poem by Gerald Verner
• The Covens (excerpt) • (1937) • short fiction by Montague Summers
• Witch Trials (excerpt) • (1692) • short fiction by Cotton Mather
• The Black Mass (excerpt) • (1946) • short fiction by Montague Summers
• The Earlier Service • (1935) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• Witch Wood (excerpt) • (1927) • short fiction by John Buchan
• The Birth of Sorcery • (1914) • essay by Sax Rohmer
• The Cyprian Cat • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Peace of Mowsle Barton • (1911) • short story by Saki
• The Werewolf (excerpt) • (1933) • short fiction by Montague Summers
• The Tomb of Sarah • (1900) • short story by F. G. Loring