FFB: Helen Hoke, Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis, Michel Parry, Hugh Lamb and Some Other anthologists of my early reading...

While I've written a fair amount about magazine editors, and such (and sometimes Also*) anthology editors as Robert Arthur* and Barry Malzberg*, Ellen Datlow* and Jerome Charyn, Betty M. Owen and Dwight Macdonald*, Bill Pronzini and Joe Lansdale, Gerald W. Page* and Nelson Algren, Henry Mazzeo and Judith Merril, Jessica Amanda Salmonson* and Harold Q. Masur, Marcia Muller and Ann VanderMeer*, Harlan Ellison* and Robert Silverberg, I haven't yet touched much or at all upon at least five anthologists important to my early reading: Helen Hoke, (Ms. and Ms.) Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis (names that are hard to forget), Michel Parry, and Hugh Lamb--all of whom contributed to the enjoyment of horror and suspense fiction, and more. 

Helen Hoke might've been the most prolific producer of anthologies, particularly for young readers, among this handful, but not by much. She did have a long (and trans-Atlantic) career as a writer and editor, as her 1990 New York Times obituary notes, 

In the late 1930's, Ms. Hoke inaugurated and managed children's book departments at several publishing houses, including Henry Holt, Reynal & Hitchcock and Julian Messer. In the 1940's, Ms. Hoke, whose first marriage, to John Hoke, had ended in divorce, married Franklin Watts, founder the New York publishing company that bears his name. She became the company's vice president and director of international projects.

She would go on to collaborate on at least one book each with one of her sons and one of her grandsons. And she didn't restrict herself too much...along with such titles as Monsters Monsters Monsters and Jokes Jokes Jokes, she also offered both Nurses Nurses Nurses and Doctors Doctors Doctors, which mixed short stories with essays and autobiographical excerpts.

But it was her horror and humor anthologies and compilations that I remember, particularly the former...she relied mostly on chestnuts, but intelligently arrayed, and for young readers, this isn't the worst strategy. From ISFDb: 

Anthologies

• Witches! Witches! Witches! (1958)
• Spooks, Spooks, Spooks (1966)
• Dragons, Dragons, Dragons (1972)
• Weirdies (1973)
• Monsters Monsters Monsters (1975)
• Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome (1976)
• Ghosts and Ghastlies (1976)
• Devils, Devils, Devils (1976)
• Creepies, Creepies, Creepies (1977) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: Creepies: A Covey of Quiver-and-Quaver Tales (1978)
• Haunts! Haunts! Haunts! (1977)
• Spectres, Spooks and Shuddery Shades (1977)
• Eerie, Weird and Wicked (1977)
• Demons Within and Other Disturbing Tales (1978)
• Terrors, Torments and Traumas (1978)
• Horrors, Horrors, Horrors (1978)
• Terrors, Terrors, Terrors (1979)
• Thrillers, Chillers and Killers (1979)
• A Chilling Collection (1979)
• Fear! Fear! Fear! (1980)
• Giants! Giants! Giants! (1980)
• Sinister, Strange, and Supernatural (1980)
• Mysterious, Menacing & Macabre (1981)
• More Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts (1981)
• Tales of Fear & Frightening Phenomena (1982)
• Uncanny Tales of Unearthly and Unexpected Horrors (1983)
• Demonic, Dangerous & Deadly (1983)
• Ghastly, Ghoulish, Gripping Tales (1983)
• Spirits, Spooks and Other Sinister Creatures (1984)
• Venomous Tales of Villainy and Vengeance (1984)
• Horrifying and Hideous Hauntings (1986) with Franklin Hoke

...and so, I missed the preponderance of her work in the horror and fantasy fields, having left behind the younger-readers' sections of libraries by 1976, but I do remember the early volumes well, with their often rather uninspired covers, but usually interesting content (ISFDb, again):

Weirdies (aka Weirdies Weirdies Weirdies): 

• Editor: Helen Hoke
• Year: 1973-00-00

• Weirdies • interior artwork by Charles Keeping

9 • A Creature Imagined (excerpt) • shortfiction by C. S. Lewis

11 • The Cocoon • (1946) • shortstory by John B. L. Goodwin

35 • The Hair • (1928) • shortstory by A. J. Alan

47 • The Brown Hand • (1899) • shortstory by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Story of the Brown Hand) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ]

67 • The Nightmare Lake • (1919) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft

70 • Mrs. Manifold • (1949) • shortstory by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon ]

86 • The Ancient Track • (1930) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft

88 • The Monster of Baylock • shortstory by F. H. Lee

94 • Phase Two (excerpt) • shortfiction by John Wyndham

109 • The Night Crawlers • poem by H. P. Lovecraft

110 • The Howler • [Fungi from Yuggoth • 12] • (1932) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft

112 • A Crossbreed • shortstory by Franz Kafka (trans. of Eine Kreuzung 1931)

116 • The Mansions of the Dead • (1965) • poem by Robert Blair

117 • Hallowe'en in a Suburb • (1926) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft

119 • The Quest for Blank Claveringi • (1967) • shortstory by Patricia Highsmith

138 • Wentworth's Day • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth

153 • The Shark-Man Nanaue • shortstory by E. M. Nakuina

164 • The Monster (excerpt) • shortfiction by Edmund Spenser

167 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford

192 • What Was It? • (1859) • shortstory by Fitz-James O'Brien

211 • It • (1940) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

My first encounters with at least some of this work, and not mine alone...

Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis in their turn didn't specialize as thoroughly in books for younger readers, but mixed their bags sufficiently that some librarians probably put a few aimed more at adults in the juvenile sections...when such things happened where I could see them in the early '70s, my feeling were rarely bruised:

Anthologies

• Magic!: A Treasury for Young Readers (1967) with Gogo Lewis
• Shapes of the Supernatural (1969) with Gogo Lewis
• A Gathering of Ghosts (1970) with Gogo Lewis
• Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex (1971) with Gogo Lewis
• Bewitched Beings (1974) with Gogo Lewis
• Baleful Beasts (1974) with Gogo Lewis
• Masters of the Macabre (1975) with Gogo Lewis
• Ladies of the Gothics (1975) with Gogo Lewis
• Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex (1975) with Gogo Lewis
• Women of the Weird: Eerie Stories by the Gentle Sex (1976) with Gogo Lewis
• Sisters of Sorcery (1976) with Gogo Lewis
• Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories By the Gentle Sex (1977) with Gogo Lewis
• Nature's Revenge: Eerie Stories of Revolt Against the Human Race (1978) with Gogo Lewis
• Christmas Ghosts (1978) with Gogo Lewis
• Masters of Shades and Shadows: An Anthology of Great Ghost Stories (1978) with Gogo Lewis
• Fun Phantoms: Tales of Ghostly Entertainment (1979) with Gogo Lewis
• The Haunted Dolls (1980) with Gogo Lewis

ISFDb, unsurprisingly, doesn't choose to list their criminous anthologies, of which there were a few, and such outliers as Cat Encounters: A Cat-Lover's Anthology or the nonfiction anthology Polar Secrets.  As WorldCat notes, this couple could turn in an impressive (and feminist, particularly given the ironic subtitling) compilation of crime-fiction, as well:

Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense by the Gentle Sex

(New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1973.)

Sayers, D. L. The leopard lady.--

Nesbit, E. The head.--

Dickens, M. To reach the sea.--

De la Torre, L. Goodbye Miss Lizzie Borden.--

Meade, L. T. and Eustace, R. Madame Sara.--

Bowen, M. Cambric tea.--

Spofford, H. P. The ray of displacement.--

Rice, J. The willow tree.--

Biographical notes.

...the Edward Gorey covers, when they occurred, never hurt a bit.

An earlier example:

Suspense: A Treasury for Young Adults

New York : Funk & Wagnalls, ©1966.

Miss Phipps Improvises / Phyllis Bentley --
The Signalman / Charles Dickens --
The Gloria Scott / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The Symbolic logic of murder / John Reese --
The sleepwaker : Lady Macbeth / William Shakespeare --
The Macbeth Murder Mystery --
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains --
The Ghost-Extinguisher / Gelett Burgess --
Tobermory Saki (H.H. Munro) --
A Terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins. Stepping westward / William Wordstorth --
A Charm / John Dryden --
For though the caves were rabbited / Henry David Thoreau --
The Witch's whelp / Richard Henry Stoddard --
The Night-wind / Emily Bronte --
After I shot the albatross / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
Song of the mermaids / George Darley --
The Indian burial ground / Philip Freneau --
The Witch's ballad / William Bell Scott --
The Haunted palace / Edgar Allan Poe --
Hymn of Pan / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
Phantom / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
Proserpine / Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Lotus-eaters / Alfred Lord Tennyson --
Dream-Pedlary / Thomas Lovel Beddoes --
Darkness / George Gordon, Lord Byron --
The Story of a conscience / Ambrose Bierce --
The Dressmaker's doll / Agatha Christie --
My queer dean / Ellery Queen --
How I wrote Frankenstein/Mary Shelley --
Frankenstein's monster / Mary Shelley --
Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The Trail of the catfish \ Allen Lang --
The Haunted space suit / Arthur C. Clarke --
Your world of suspense / Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis.

It's remarkable how poorly Parry's
books were packaged in the UK;
...this is the least-bad UK cover
I see among web images...

Michel Parry, as his name might suggest, probably didn't begin speaking in English first (he was born in Belgium)...and, as his list demonstrates, didn't by any means restrict himself to YA anthologies. But that didn't stop him from putting together excellent books that were both slotted and collected for the young readers that included me in my youth:

Anthology Series

• From the Archives of Evil
  • 1 From the Archives of Evil (1976) with Christopher Lee
  • 2 From the Archives of Evil, Number 2 (1976) with Christopher Lee

• Mayflower Books of Black Magic Stories
  • 1 The 1st Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1974) also appeared as:
    • Variant Title: Great Black Magic Stories (1977)
  • 2 The 2nd Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1974)
  • 3 The 3rd Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1975)
  • 4 The 4th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1976)
  • 5 The 5th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1976)
  • 6 The 6th Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories (1977)

• Reign of Terror
  • 1 Reign of Terror: The 1st Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories (1976) also appeared as:
    • Variant Title: Reign of Terror: Great Victorian Horror Stories (1977)
  • 2 Reign of Terror: The 2nd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories (1977)
  • 3 Reign of Terror: The 3rd Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories (1977)
  • 4 Reign of Terror: The 4th Corgi Book of Great Victorian Horror Stories (1978)

Anthologies

• Beware of the Cat (1972)
• Strange Ecstasies (1974)
• The Devil's Children (1974)
• Dream Trips (1974)
• The Hounds of Hell (1974)
• Jack the Knife (1975)
• Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate No. 1 (1975) with Christopher Lee
• The Roots of Evil (1976) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants (1976) [as by Carlos Cassaba ]
• The Supernatural Solution (1976)
• Waves of Terror: Weird Stories About the Sea (1976)
• Spaced Out (1977)
• The Rivals of Frankenstein: A Gallery of Monsters (1977)
• Savage Heroes (1977) [also as by Eric Pendragon ]
• The Rivals of Dracula: A Century of Vampire Fiction (1977)
• The Rivals of King Kong: A Rampage of Beasts (1978)
• Superheroes (1978)
• Sex in the 21st Century (1979) with Milton Subotsky
• Lurking Shadows (1979) with Christopher Lee
• Santa 2000 (1984)
• Ghostbreakers (1985)

...albeit an X certificate on films in the UK was likely to be handed to any sort of horror film, at least until the 1970s, whether with Hammer-style sexuality or not. Beware of the Cat was a fine start, if obviously missing a Fritz Leiber story:

US editions rather better, on balance.

• 9 • Introduction (Beware of the Cat) • essay by Michel Parry
• 13 • Beware the Cat (extract) • (1570) • shortstory by William Baldwin (variant of Beware the Cat) [as by Gulielmus Baldwin ]
• 16 • The Grey Cat • (1901) • shortstory by Barry Pain
• 28 • The King of the Cats • (1929) • shortstory by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 44 • The Vampire Cat • shortstory by Traditional
• 53 • The Cat Man • (1960) • shortstory by Byron Liggett
• 69 • The White Cat • shortstory by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of The White Cat of Drumgunniol 1870) [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ]
• 82 • Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 130 • Tobermory • (1909) • shortstory by Saki
• 139 • Fluffy • (1947) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• 148 • Cat and Mouse • shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
• 162 • The Cats of Ulthar • (1920) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• 166 • Eyes of the Panther • (1897) • shortstory by Ambrose Bierce (variant of The Eyes of the Panther)
• 177 • The Black Cat • (1921) • shortstory by W. J. Wintle [as by William Wintle ]
• 186 • The Child Watcher • (1958) • shortstory by Ernest Harrison

I definitely would've appreciated seeing the Mayflower Books series as they were being published...as it happens, I still haven't. No US editions aside from the first, I gather.

And that first was from Taplinger, which also did a number of the anthologies of Hugh Lamb, whom (when first encountering his books ca. 1976) I rather inexactly used to think of as a sort of protege of Peter Haining, given that Haining's books seemed more numerous, in similar editions frequently, and he would pop into the odd Lamb anthology to provide a guest introduction. But while there were similarities in the compilations, Lamb was even more an assiduous scholar than Haining, digging out lost stories (most famously an M. R. James, early in his career) and generally going even wider into stories which were less-traditional horror and more bizarre psychological studies, for his anthologies of the weird...

Anthologies

• A Tide of Terror (1972)
• Victorian Tales of Terror (1974)
• A Wave of Fear (1974)
• Star Book of Horror No. 1 (1975)
• The Thrill of Horror (1975)
• Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Horror (1975)
• The Taste of Fear (1976)
• Return from the Grave (1976)
• The Star Book of Horror No. 2 (1976)
• Victorian Nightmares (1977) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: A Bottomless Grave and Other Victorian Tales of Terror (2001)
• Cold Fear (1977)
• Forgotten Tales of Terror (1978)
• The Man-Wolf and Other Horrors (1978)
• Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard (1979)
• New Tales of Terror (1980)
• Gaslit Nightmares (1988)
• Stories in the Dark: Tales of Terror by Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Barr and Barry Pain (1989)
• Gaslit Nightmares 2 (1991)
• Terror by Gaslight: An Anthology of Rare Tales of Terror (1992)
• Ghosts in the House (1996)
• Gaslit Horror (2008)

My first Lamb, I believe, was A Wave of Fear...Lamb, more than any other editor, introduced me to the brothers' works, the Other Bensons, alongside the brilliant horrors of E. F. Benson (best remembered in the '70s and perhaps now for his relatively sunny comedy of manners novels about Mapp and Lucia).

• 9 • Editor's Foreword (A Wave of Fear) • (1973) • essay by Hugh Lamb
• 13 • The Child • (1934) • shortstory by L. A. Lewis
• 26 • Celui-La • (1929) • shortstory by Eleanor Scott
• 44 • A Resumed Identity • (1908) • shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• 51 • Huguenin's Wife • (1895) • shortstory by M. P. Shiel
• 63 • Blind Man's Bluff • (1929) • shortstory by H. Russell Wakefield (variant of Blind Man's Buff) [as by H. R. Wakefield ]
• 68 • Marjorie's on Starlight • (1973) • shortstory by Charles Birkin
• 80 • Hawley Bank Foundry • (1948) • shortstory by L. T. C. Rolt
• 102 • Twilight • (1912) • shortstory by Marjorie Bowen
• 111 • Basil Netherby • (1926) • novelette by A. C. Benson
• 139 • The Wishing-Well • (1929) • shortstory by E. F. Benson
• 154 • The Traveller • (1903) • shortstory by R. H. Benson
• 163 • Phantom Silhouette • (1973) • shortstory by Joy Burnett
• 169 • Terrible Mrs. Greene • (1936) • shortstory by Frederick Cowles
• 176 • Clairvoyance • (1932) • shortstory by D. K. Broster
• 194 • The Late Occupier • (1918) • shortstory by J. D. Beresford
• 198 • The Messenger • (1897) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 235 • A Honeymoon in Hate • (1933) • shortstory by Vivian Meik

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