Books and Magazines • Ghosts and Monsters (1982): Educatiors Using Horror

Ghosts and Monsters was published by Educational Insights in 1982. The kind of boxed set of teaching materials that found there way easily into hundreds or thousands of classrooms across the country. The contents were pretty basic: a book of spirit masters for duplicating worksheets (crosswords, etc.) in an age before photocopying became ubiquitous; a brief teacher’s guide with suggested questions and activities; and a package of ten comic booklets which adapted a dozen tales of horror and weird fiction to comics:

1. “Feathertop” (1852) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” (1894) by H. G. Wells
3. “The Bottle Imp” (1891) by Robert Louis Stevenson
4. “Man-Size in Marble” (1887) by Edith Nesbit
5. “The Legend of Gwendolyn Ranna” (1982?) by Frank Maltesi
6. “The Ghost-Eater” (1924) by C. M. Eddy
7. “The King is Dead, Long Live the King” (1928) by Mary Coleridge
8. “The Secret of the Growing Gold” (1892) by Bram Stoker
9. “The Gorgon’s Head” (1899) by Gertrude Bacon
10. “The Outsider” (1926) by H. P. Lovecraft
11. “The Stranger” (1909) by Ambrose Bierce
12. “The Crewe Ghost” after Oscar Wilde [based on “The Canterville Ghost” (1887)]

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