Throughout Lovecraft acknowledges those writers and stories that are the very finest that the horror field has to offer: Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, and Arthur Conan Doyle, among others. Stephen Jones is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Award, and a fifteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award. He lives in London.

    Brian Lumley's monsters are never commonplace! In the award-winning 'Fruiting Bodies', for example, the terror doesn't stalk the night but moves almost imperceptibly underfoot, or through the woodwork... or in other places! 'The Pit-Yakker' is a tale of industrial decay, of a love that might have been, a hatred stillborn, and a scar to disfigure the landscape of the mind forever.And as for 'The Man Who Felt Pain'... well, don't we all? Yes, but not everyone else's!This Witch's Dozen of fine tales of terror can only add to the acclaim rightly accorded the man who gave you the brilliant Necroscope series, and its direct sequel, Brian Lumley's Vampire World.

    They represent the whole evolving trajectory of such notions as Hastur, the King in Yellow, Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, the Black Stone, Yuggoth, and the Lake of Hali. A succession of writers from Ambrose Bierce to Ramsey Campbell and Karl Edward Wagner have explored and embellished these concepts so that the sum of the tales has become an evocative tapestry of hypnotic dread and terror, a mythology distinct from yet overlapping the Cthulhu Mythos. Here for the first time is a comprehensive collection of all the relevant tales.

    Included are such classics as 'Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper,' 'Enoch,' 'The Opener of the Way,' and the Hugo Award winning 'That Hell-Bound Train.' 3 • The Cloak • (1939)18 • Beetles • (1938)30 • The Fiddler's Fee • (1940)49 • The Mannikin • (1937)64 • The Strange Flight of Richard Clayton • (1939)73 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943)90 • The Seal of the Satyr • (1939)103 • The Dark Demon • (1936)113 • The Faceless God • (1936)127 • House of the Hatchet • (1941)145 • The Opener of the Way • (1936)157 • Return to the Sabbath • (1938)172 • The Mandarin's Canaries • (1938)183 • Waxworks • (1939)205 • The Feast in the Abbey • (1935)212 • Slave of the Flames • (1938)230 • The Shambler from the Stars • (1935)240 • Mother of Serpents • (1936)248 • The Secret of Sebek • (1937)264 • The Eyes of the Mummy • (1938)278 • One Way to Mars • (1945)287 • Sweets to the Sweet • (1947)295 • The Dream-Makers • (1953)321 • The Sorcerer's Apprentice • (1949)332 • I Kiss Your Shadow— • (1956)350 • Mr. Steinway • (1954)363 • The Proper Spirit • (1957)370 • Catnip • (1948)382 • The Cheaters • (1947)400 • Hungarian Rhapsody • (1958)409 • The Light-House • (1953)423 • The Hungry House • (1951)441 • Sleeping Beauty • (1958)453 • Sweet Sixteen • (1958)471 • That Hell-Bound Train • (1958)485 • Enoch • (1946)498 • The Bedposts of Life • (1991)504 • The Grab Bag • (1991)512 • The Creative Urge • (1991)