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Johnny Mains
Johnny Mains is a British Fantasy Award-winning editor and genre researcher. He was Project Editor on the 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories, created the critically acclaimed series Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians (co-edited with Robin Ince) and has spent the last five years de…
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Johnny Mains is a British Fantasy Award-winning editor and genre researcher. He was Project Editor on the 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories, created the critically acclaimed series Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians (co-edited with Robin Ince) and has spent the last five years deep in the archives, uncovering ‘lost’ stories by notable authors such as Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, Oscar Cook and Daphne Du Maurier, among others.
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The Dead of Summer 2025 British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes 2024 British Library Tales of the Weird #54 Halloweird 2024 British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares Scotland the Strange 2023 British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares Celtic Weird 2023 British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares 
The Curse of the Monster 2015 The Cursed #5 
Frightfully Cosy and Mild Stories for Nervous Types 2012 
Back from the Dead 2010 Pan Book of Horror Stories 
The Pan Book of Horror Stories 1959 ★ 9.0/10 1 ratings Pan Book of Horror Stories #1 
The Black Mirror 1948 British Library Tales of the Weird #76 
Possessed 1927 British Library Tales of the Weird #68