''Uncanny Banquet: Great Tales of the Supernatural'' is an

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of reprinted

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stories edited by

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and published by

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in 1992. The editor's intention, expressed in the introduction, was to "collect a range of stories as remarkable as the accredited classics of the field but less well known". The book contains the first reprinting of the novel ''The Hole of the Pit'' – "one of the first masterpieces of the novel of supernatural terror", according to CampbellCampbell, Ramsey. ''Uncanny Banquet'', p.173. – since its original publication in 1914. The book contains the following stories: * "Behind the Stumps" (1979) by

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* "A Horizon of Obelisks" (1981) by Dorothy K. Haynes * "The Loony" (1984) by

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* "The First-Nighter" (1908?) by Henry Normanby * "The Hill and the Hole" (1947) by

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* "Ravissante" (1968) by

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* "The Lady in Gray" (1988) by

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* "A Mote" (1971) by

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* "McGonagall in the Head" (1992) by Ramsey Campbell * ''The Hole of the Pit'' (1914) by

Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes (23 December 1859 – 11 September 1933), better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...

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