Editing Boris Karloff (section)

===Spoken word recordings and horror anthologies===
He recorded the title role of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Cymbeline]]'' for the Shakespeare Recording Society ([[Caedmon Audio]] 1962). He also recorded the narration for [[Sergei Prokofiev]]'s ''[[Peter and the Wolf]]'' with the [[Vienna State Opera]] Orchestra under [[Mario Rossi (conductor)|Mario Rossi]].{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

Records he made for the children's market included ''Three Little Pigs and Other Fairy Stories'', ''Tales of the Frightened'' (volume 1 and 2), [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Just So Stories]]'' and, with [[Cyril Ritchard]] and [[Celeste Holm]], ''Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes'',<ref>{{cite news | author=Deborah Stead | title=Children's Books; Play me a Story: it's tape time | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/books/children-s-books-play-me-a-story-it-s-tape-time.html | work=The New York Times | date=11 June 1989 | access-date=19 April 2009 | archive-date=28 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128024943/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/books/children-s-books-play-me-a-story-it-s-tape-time.html | url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]]''.<ref>''The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll, read by Boris Karloff'', Saland Publishing / IODA, 2008</ref>

Karloff was credited for editing several horror anthologies, commencing with ''Tales of Terror'' (Cleveland and NY: World Publishing Co, 1943) (compiled with the help of Edmond Speare).<ref>Mike Ashley and William G. Contento (eds) ''The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird and Horror Anthologies''. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1995, p. 26.</ref> This wartime-published anthology went through at least five printings to September 1945. It has been reprinted recently (Orange NJ: Idea Men, 2007). Karloff's name was also attached to ''And the Darkness Falls'' (Cleveland and NY: World Publishing Co, 1946); and ''The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology'' (London: Souvenir Press, 1965; simultaneous publication in Canada - Toronto: The Ryerson Press; US pbk reprint NY: Avon Books, 1965 retitled as ''Boris Karloff's Favourite Horror Stories''; UK pbk reprints London: Corgi, 1969 and London: Everest, 1975, both under the original title), though it is less clear whether Karloff himself actually edited these.

''Tales of the Frightened'' (Belmont Books, 1963), though based on the recordings by Karloff of the same title, and featuring his image on the book cover, contained stories written by [[Michael Avallone]]; the second volume, ''More Tales of the Frightened'', contained stories authored by [[Robert Lory]]. Both Avallone and Lory worked closely with Canadian editor and book packager Lyle Kenyon Engel, who also ghost-edited a horror story anthology for horror film star [[Basil Rathbone]].