John Evangelist Walsh’s biography Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe looked into the cause of the author’s death, while Poe’s Selected Tales, published by Oxford University Press, was a new selection, edited and introduced by David Van Leer. The Penguin/Signet Classic edition of Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher collected fifteen stories, a new introduction by Stephen Marlowe and an updated bibliography.
Books of Wonder’s “Classic Frights” series of trade paperback reprints for young adults featured The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by William Sayer; Dracula’s Guest containing two stories by Bram Stoker, illustrated by Eric Shanower; The Haunting of Holmescroft by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Barb Armata; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s The Southwest Chamber, illustrated by Margaret Organ-Kean; Who Knows? by Guy de Maupassant, illustrated by Jennifer Dickson, and The Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells, Casting the Runes by M. R. James, Man-Size in Marble by E. Nesbit, The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs, all illustrated by Jeff White.
Academy Chicago’s edition of The Monkey’s Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre collected eighteen stories by Jacobs, edited with an introduction by Gary Hoppenstand, while The Hazelwood Press published The Monkey’s Paw: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript, limited to just 300 copies.