More than a tale of possession, the novel probes disturbing depths of guilt, paranoia, and sexual obsession with an unsparing detachment.

    Morbid, cynical, eerie, they take you to a twilight region of flesh and spirit — and into the darkest recesses of the human mind. These are unusual constructions of terror and grim irony, reminiscent of Poe, the Gothic novel, and the Romantic short story, but having the unmistakable individual stamp of a man who knew first-hand something of the fears and specters which haunt men.In this volume you will come across a number of old favorites: "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "An Adventure at Brownville," and such classics as "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot," "The Damned Thing," and "Moonlit Road," a minor masterpiece in which events of the story are told from three different points of view, including that of the victim as spoken through a medium. You will also find some less familiar, but equally fascinating stories and pieces not available elsewhere, including "Visions of the Night," in which Bierce gives us a rationale for his "reverse holiness" and the surrealistic morality that permeates these writings. Bierce's characters — possessed poets, shabby aristocrats, grimy professional men, revived corpses, haunted malefactors — live in a spare, perverse world. Patricide, the revenge of the dead, inexplicable disappearances, dreadful ironies, hypnotism and second sight, and the like, form much of the substance of these unsettling tales.

    Half these stories never published before in U.S.

    350 copies.(Out of print).Contents: "Introduction by Glen Cavaliero, "The School Friend", "Ringing the Changes", "Choice of Weapons", "The Waiting Room", "The View" and "Bind Your Hair".As Dr Glen Cavaliero states in his introduction to this new edition of Dark Entries, "It is Robert Aickman's peculiar achievement that he should invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night".Dark Entries was the first solo collection of "strange stories" by British short story writer, critic, lecturer and novelist, Robert Aickman. First published in 1964 it contains the classic "Ringing the Changes" and perhaps Aickman's best femme fatale in "Choice of Weapons." The version of "The View" is slightly re-written from its first appearance in We are for the Dark.

    Smith's stories deal powerfully with other galaxies, worlds and dimensions. Who else has seen such gorgeous, luxuriant and feverishly distorted visions of infinite spheres and multiple dimensions and lived to tell the tale? - H.P. LovecraftContents: Master of the Asteroid; The Seed from the Sepulcher; The Root of Ampoi; The Immortals of Mercury; Murder in the Fourth Dimension; Seedling of Mars; The Maker of Gargoyles; The Great God Awto; Mother of Toads; The Tomb Spawn

    

    not only in haunted houses and ruined abbeys but suddenly, in everyday places and in the hearts of ordinary people. Here are eleven tales of horror and the supernatural by a master of the art of bringing fear to your doorstep.

    The Man Who Returned · Edmond Hamilton · Weird Tales Feb ’34 2. Spider Mansion · Fritz Leiber · Weird Tales Sep ’42 3. A Question of Etiquette · Robert Bloch · Weird Tales Sep ’42 4. The Sea Witch · Nictzin Dyalhis · Weird Tales Dec ’37 5. The Strange High House in the Mist · H. P. Lovecraft · Weird Tales Oct ’31 6. The Drifting Snow · August Derleth · Weird Tales Feb ’39 7. The Body-Masters · Frank Belknap Long · Weird Tales Feb ’35 8. Pigeons from Hell · Robert E. Howard · Weird Tales May ’38

    

    First published in The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (1964) and collected in Cold Print (1985) and The Children of Gla'aki (2017)