The Height of the Scream is a collection of horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 stories by author Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell

John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...

. Released in 1976

1976 in literature

The year 1976 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-New books:*Kingsley Amis – The Alteration...

 in an edition of 4,348 copies, it was the author's third collection of stories to be published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

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It has since been reissued in various formats, most recently in a 2004 trade paperback from Babbage Press with a new introduction.

Contents

The Height of the Scream contains the following stories:

1. "Introduction and Allergies"
2. "The Scar"
3. "The Whining"
4. "The Dark Show"
5. "Missing"
6. "Reply Guaranteed"
7. "Jack's Little Friend"
8. "Beside the Seaside"
9. "The Cellars"
10. "The Height of the Scream"
11. "Litter"
12. "Cyril"
13. "Smoke Kiss"
14. "The Words that Count"
15. "Ash"
16. "The Telephones"
17. "In the Shadows"
18. "Second Chance"
19. "Horror House of Blood"