This best-selling novel, first published in 1953 to wide acclaim by author Grubb, (who like Powers lived in Clarksburg, West Virginia), served as the basis for Charles Laughton's noir classic . Renamed "Harry Powell," the lead character in this book, with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his fingers, is remembered as one of the creepiest men in book and cinema history.

    It's a party all the townspeople will remember...always!Voted as one of the greatest stories by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the story was also adapted into a classic Twilight Zone episode.

    Hear me! Or don't. For there are those obsessed with uncovering the witcheries that fester in man's foul heart. There are those who would invoke the awful powers that yet remain in Earth's cursed places. Joseph Payne Brenna is such a one. This is his book. Dare you make it yours? (back cover copy)Introduction by Stephen King.Contents:Diary of a Werewolf The Corpse of Charlie Rull Canavan’s Back Yard The Pavilion House of Memory The Willow Platform Who Was He?DisappearanceThe Horror at Chilton CastleThe Impulse to KillThe House on Hazel StreetSlime

    He was tired. His back and shoulders ached from digging dirt out of the basement and wheeling it into the back yard. But for a forty-year-old man he had done okay. Janet could get a new vase with the money he had saved; and he liked the idea of repairing the foundations himself.

    a weird girl who practices a rather different kind of vampirism... a malignant, inexorable intelligence which lurks in murky oil deposits beneath the earth's bony crust... These and other black gems of the fantasists' art await your discovery - if you dare to look within...7 • The Black Gondolier - (1964)39 • Midnight in the Mirror World - (1964)57 • I'm Looking for Jeff - (1952)71 • The Creature from Cleveland Depths - (1962)119 • The Oldest Soldier - (1960)137 • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949)153 • A Bit of the Dark World - (1962)

    It is presented with neither evidence nor judgment as to its validity. This determination is for the reader to make. Here is Richard Matheson's classic chilling, ghost story Slaughter House. Can a dead woman really come between two brothers?Slaughter House was originally published in "Weird Tales" in 1953.