The Graveyard Reader
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| editor= Groff Conklin
| cover_artist = Richard Powers
| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Horror
| publisher = Ballantine Books
| release_date = 1958
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| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 156
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The Graveyard Reader is an anthology of horror short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in 1958, and reprinted in November 1965.{{isfdb title|id=34597}}
The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1861-1958 in various magazines.
Contents
- "Introduction" by Groff Conklin
- "The Screaming Woman" by Ray Bradbury
- "A Bottomless Grave" by Ambrose Bierce
- "The Cart" by Richard Hughes
- "The Graveyard Rats" by Henry Kuttner
- "Skin" by Roald Dahl
- "Night Court" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
- "Free Dirt" by Charles Beaumont
- "Listen, Children, Listen!" by Wallace West
- "Special Delivery" by John Collier
- "The Child That Loved a Grave" by Fitz-James O'Brien
- "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Graveyard Reader" by Theodore Sturgeon
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