by John Grafton (Editor), Mike Ashley (Introduction by)
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. --H. P. Lovecraft
Fans of horror and the supernatural will savor the dark delicacies in this spine-tingling anthology of the genre's very best. Featuring an international gallery of the world's great horror writers, this collection celebrates one of literature's most popular forms of fiction with 14 masterfully crafted tales of terror, including:
- Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest
- Edgar Allan Poe's The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
- H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space
- Arthur Machen's The White People
- Izumi Kyoka's A Tale of Three Who Were Blind
- Algernon Blackwood's The Willows
- Ambrose Bierce's The Damned Thing and 7 more chilling classics. A truly macabre must-have