CONTENTS The White Old Maid -- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar -- Edgar Allan Poe The Dream Woman -- Wilkie Collins The Open Door -- Margaret Oliphant The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral -- Montague Rhodes James The Man Who Went Too Far -- E. F. Benson Moxon's Master -- Ambrose Bierce The Beast with Five Fingers -- W. F. Harvey From the Loom of the Dead -- Elia W. Peattie The Ghoul -- Evangeline W. Blashfield The Shadows ...

CONTENTS A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705 -- Daniel Defoe The Tapestried Chamber -- Sir Walter Scott The Old Nurse's Story -- Mrs. Gaskell The Haunted and the Haunters -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Were-Wolf -- H. B. Marryat What Was It? -- Fitz-James O'Brien The Gray Champion -- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Storm-Ship -- Washington Irving The ...

Three time Bram Stoker Award winner Tom Piccirilli and Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Editor Edward McFadden bring you 20 tales of dark fantasy and horror. Rose pedals whirl in the rising wind as the shadows thicken. Read these Epitaphs from: Linda D. Addison, Mike Allen, Trey R. Barker, Warren Newton Beath, Tippi Blevins, Dan Clore, Corrine De Winter, James S. Dorr, Rhonda Eikamp, Cindie Geddes, Harrison Howe, Gerard Daniel Houarner, ...

Cheaply produced and easy on the eyes, The 'Reality TV' craze began in the late '80's and currently makes up over half of all network television slots. The popularity of such programs has led to a glut of such programming whose popularity continues to rise, mostly with the younger generations who've been weaned on such frivolous fare. Inevitably, a dark, sinister side emerges from such a sweeping phenomenon like an evil twin; a 'Fractured ...

Lord Erek never thought his magical abilities would amount to much, not that his guardian aunt would allow him to use them. But when his new tutor introduces him to some friends, Erek must decide whether or not to study and develop his powers--and put himself in grave danger. ...

A chilling collection of stories from the masters of supernatural fiction, written during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at the height of the genre's popularity. These fifteen tales introduce a variety of ghosts: some warning, some seeking retribution and some malevolent, but all disturbing and offering a view into a world filled with darkness and terror that lies at the boundary between the living and the dead. ...

In a second distinguished collection of twenty superb, sublimely dark tales written especially for this volume, such acknowledged contemporary masters of horror fiction as Barbara Hambly, John Farris, James Sallis, Steve Niles, Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks, and Gary Brandner serve up a veritable feast of fear. For the second time, Dark Delicacies, the world's foremost horror bookstore, lends its famous name and imprimatur to an anthology designed ...

Legendary collection of stories by "Unlucky Masters."
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Venture into this alarmingly convincing world, meet the horse whose stubbornness changed history, or the man damned to everlasting love, or the murderer who confessed... and confessed... and confessed. Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only important thing he had--and never even missed it. Lean back, relax, take a long look at ...

This collection of some of Poes most famous tales is intended to excite and to remind readers that, although the author lived many years ago, his grasp of human emotion is as poignant as ever. Included in this book are "The Raven," The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, Fall of the House of Usher, Ligeia, and A Premature Burial.
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