Great Horror Stories

"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. CONTENTS: THE MARK OF THE BEAST by Rudyard Kipling “OH, WHISTLE, AND I’LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD” by M.R. James THE DERELICT by William Hope Hodgson SREDNI VASHTAR by Saki (H. H. Munro) THE MONKEY’S PAW by W. W. Jacobs THE WILLOWS by Algernon Blackwood A TALE OF THREE WHO WERE BLIND by Izumi Kyoka THE DAMNED THING by Ambrose Bierce THE WHITE PEOPLE by Arthur Machen DRACULA’S GUEST by Bram Stoker THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR by Edgar Allan Poe THE LOTTERY by Shirley Jackson THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS by W. F. Harvey THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE by H. P. Lovecraf