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Murgunstrumm and Others
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Hugh B. Cave
Illustrator	Lee Brown Coye
Cover artist	Lee Brown Coye
Language	English
Genre	horror short stories
Publisher	Carcosa
Publication date	1977
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	x, 476 pp
ISBN	0-913796-02-6
OCLC	3684238

Murgunstrumm and Others is a collection of horror short stories by author Hugh B. Cave. It was released in 1977 by Carcosa in an edition of 2,578 copies of which the 597 copies, that were pre-ordered, were signed by the author and artist. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Weird Tales, Spicy Mystery Stories, Ghost Stories, Thrilling Mysteries, Black Book Detective Magazine, Argosy, Adventure, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Whispers. It has since been reissued by Wildside Press in trade paperback and hardcover.

Awards

1978, World Fantasy Award, Best Collection/Anthology.^[1]

Foreword
"Murgunstrumm"
"The Watcher in the Green Room"
"The Prophecy"
"The Strange Death of Ivan Gromleigh"
"The Affair of the Clutching Hand"
"The Strange Case of No. 7"
"The Isle of Dark Magic"
"The Whisperers"
"Horror in Wax"
"Prey of the Nightborn"
"Maxon’s Mistress"
"Dead Man’s Belt"
"Boomerang"
"The Crawling Curse"
"Purr of a Cat"
"Tomorrow Is Forever"
"The Ghoul Gallery"
"The Cult of the White Ape"
"The Brotherhood of Blood"
"The Door of Doom"
"The Death Watch"
"The Caverns of Time"
"Many Happy Returns"
"Ladies in Waiting"
"The Grisley Death"
"Stragella"

Reprints

2004, United States, Wildside Press ISBN 0-8095-0069-8, Pub date November, 2004, Paperback, print on demand

Notes

^ "1978 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees". World Fantasy Convention. Retrieved 2008-04-05.

References

Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2004)". Retrieved 2008-04-05.
Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 137.

World Fantasy Award—Collection

1975–2000

Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman (1975)
The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson (1976)
Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave (1978)
Shadows by Charles L. Grant (1979)
Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
The Dark Country by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983)
High Spirits by Robertson Davies (1984)
Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker (1985)
Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley (1986)
Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr. (1987)
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (1988)
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe (1989, tie)
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson (1990)
The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller (1991)
The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard (1992)
The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady (1993)
Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1994)
The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton (1995)
The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton (1998)
Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (1999)
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)

2001–present

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (2001)
Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004)
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005)
The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (2006)
Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (2007)
Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2008)
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (2009)
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (2010, tie)
What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler (2011)
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers (2012)
Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane (2013)
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings by Angela Slatter / Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)
Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney (2016)
A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford (2017)
The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (2018)
The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (2019)
Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson (2020)
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (2021)
Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik (2022)

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