
He took the Upper Sixth for Chemistry, but the main appeal of his classes was the way he could be side-tracked into talking about virtually anything else under the sun. I first knew Hugo Latymer when he was a newly-appointed assistant housemaster and I, a mere ten years his junior, was in my final year at school. Miss Elizabeth Walter and The Harvill Press Limited for the island of regrets from Snowfall.

Mr Martin Waddell and London Authors for cannibals and the old adam. Miss Rosemary Timperley and Harvey Unna Limited for street of the blind donkey. Mr William Sansom and The Hogarth Press for the little room from Something Terrible, Something Lovely. Mrs Irene Morris for I'll never leave you - ever. Mr John D. Keefauver and London Authors for the last experiment and mareta. The Executors of the late W. W. Jacobs and The Society of Authors for the monkey's paw.

Miss Patricia Highsmith and A. M. Heath & Company Limited for the snail watcher. Mr Harry Harrison and Victor Gollancz Limited for the streets of ashkelon from Two Tales and Eight Tomorrows. Miss Dulcie Gray and London Authors for the fur brooch and dream house. Mr David Grant and London Authors for the bats. Mr G. M. Glaskin and David Higham Associates Limited for the return. Mr R. Chetwynd-Hayes and London Authors for the thing. Mr Charles Benfleet for the man who hated flies.

Herbert van Thal: The Seventh Pan Book of Horror Stories
