''The Height of the Scream'' is a collection of
horror
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Arts, entertainment, and media
Genres
*Horror fiction, a genre of fiction
** Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction
**Korean horror, Korean horror fiction
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stories by author
Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. He is the author of over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them winners of literary awa ...
. Released in
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
in an edition of 4,348 copies, it was the author's third collection of stories to be published by
Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had pr ...
.
It has since been reissued in various formats, most recently in a 2004 trade paperback from
Babbage Press with a new introduction.
Contents
''The Height of the Scream'' contains the following stories:
*"Introduction and Allergies"
* "The Scar"
* "The Whining"
* "The Dark Show"
* "Missing"
* "Reply Guaranteed"
* "Jack's Little Friend"
* "Beside the Seaside"
* "The Cellars"
* "The Height of the Scream"
* "Litter"
* "Cyril"
* "Smoke Kiss"
* "The Words that Count"
* "Ash"
* "The Telephones"
* "In the Shadows"
* "Second Chance"
* "Horror House of Blood"
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1976 short story collections
Horror short story collections
Arkham House books