The Height of the Scream

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name = The Height of the Scream
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Ron Fendel for "The Height of the Scream"
author = Ramsey Campbell
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cover_artist = Ron Fendel
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Horror short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1976
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xx, 229 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-075-0
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"The Height of the Scream" is a collection of horror stories by author Ramsey Campbell. Released in 1976 in an edition of 4,348 copies, it was the author's third collection of stories to be published by Arkham House.

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:

# "Introduction and Allergies"
# "The Scar"
# "The Whining"
# "The Dark Show"
# "Missing"
# "Reply Guaranteed"
# "Jack's Little Friend"
# "Beside the Seaside"
# "The Cellars"
# "The Height of the Scream"
# "Litter"
# "Cyril"
# "Smoke Kiss"
# "The Words that Count"
# "Ash"
# "The Telephones"
# "In the Shadows"
# "Second Chance"
# "Horror House of Blood"

Reprints

* London: Millington, 1978.
* London: Star, 1981.
* USA: Babbage Press, 2004.

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=115 | date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=52 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=139 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=122 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4