{"first_publish_date": "1971", "description": "from the dust-jacket:\r\n\"The Ghouls: edited by Peter Haining, with an introduction by Vincent Price and an afterword by Christopher Lee\"\r\n\r\n\"Will any of us ever forget the first time we saw Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney? Or The Beast with Five Fingers with Peter Lorre? Or Die, Monster, Die with Boris Karloff? Whether we saw them as first-run films at the local theater or are only now becoming addicted to 'Chiller Theater' on television, the ghoul-watchers among us are in for a rare treat.\r\n\r\nThe Ghouls is a horror film buff's dream. Peter Haining has collected the stories on which eighteen of the very best horror films were based...\"\r\n\r\n\"...In his introductions to each story, Mr. Haining provides a brief look at the story itself and the films made from it, including some fascinating bits of information about the making of the motion picture.\"\r\n\r\nStories included:\r\nThe Devil in a convent, by F. O. Mann\r\nThe lunatics, by E. A. Poe\r\nPuritan passions, by N. Hawthorne\r\nPhantom of the opera, by G. Leroux\r\nThe magician, by S. Maugham\r\nFreaks, by T. Robbins\r\n[Most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W), by R. Connell\r\nDracula's daughter, by B. Stoker\r\nAll that money can buy, by S. V. Bent\r\nThe body snatcher, by R. L. Stevenson\r\nThe beast with five fingers, by W. F. Harvey\r\nThe beast from 20,000 fathoms, by R. Bradbury\r\nThe fly, by G. Langelaan\r\nBlack Sunday, by N. Gogol\r\n[Incident at Owl Creek](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W), by A. Bierce\r\nMonster of terror, by H. P. Lovecraft\r\nThe skull, by R. Bloch\r\nThe oblong box, by E. A. Poe", "title": "The Ghouls", "covers": [12873106, 8443776], "lc_classifications": ["PZ1.H1255 Gh", "PN6071.H727 Gh"], "key": "/works/OL3151679W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL501394A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL24137A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL21093A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1195114A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["808.83/9/16"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Hunting", "Islands", "survival of the fittest", "animal trapping", "trapping pits", "knouts", "hunting dogs", "Cossacks", "deaf-mutes", "snow leopards", "jaguars", "Juvenile fiction", "Hunting stories", "Juvenile works", "Human hunting", "Big game sport", "Travel fiction", "Horror tales", "Film and video adaptations", "Movies", "Motion pictures", "Films", "History", "Classic Literature", "Short Stories", "Juvenile audience", "civil war", "hanging", "American Civil War", "Confederate States of America", "Union", "Film adaptations", "R\u00e9cits d'horreur", "Adaptations cin\u00e9matographiques"], "subject_people": ["Peyton Farquhar", "Sanger Rainsford", "General Zaroff", "Whitney", "Ivan", "The Great White Czar"], "subject_times": ["1861-65", "20th century"], "subject_places": ["United States", "Alabama", "Owl Creek Bridge", "Caribbean", "Amazon rainforest", "Ship-Trap Island", "Tibet"], "latest_revision": 23, "revision": 23, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T02:25:54.801047"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-05T19:23:11.090765"}}