For soon after the death of the moon, black magic will summon the Elder Gods back into the world. And all manner of Players, both human and undead, are preparing to participate.Some have come to open the gates. Some have come to slam them shut.And now the dread night approaches – so let the Game begin.

    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.

    He's an ordinary high school student whose body has been invaded by an alien parasite. And he alone knows a terrible secret: The aliens are plotting the destruction of humankind. Now Shinichi is the target - for both the government and the alien invaders - in a hunt that will lead to a terrifying, bloody showdown....

    Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive modes of cultural expression. He explores the disguised form in which Hollywood's classic horror movies played out the traumas of two world wars and the Depression; the nightmare visions of invasion and mind control catalyzed by the Cold War; the preoccupation with demon children that took hold as thalidomide, birth control, and abortion changed the reproductive landscape; the vogue in visceral, transformative special effects that paralleled the development of the plastic surgery industry; the link between the AIDS epidemic and the current fascination with vampires; and much more. Now with a new Afterword by the author that looks at horror's popular renaissance in the last decade, The Monster Show is a compulsively readable, thought-provoking inquiry into America's obsession with the macabre.

    Tales of vampires and lurking spirits, of inexplicable evil cloaked in the guise of childish innocence, of ordinary people driven to unthinkable extremes by the perversities of fate -- they're all here, told with King's inimitable blend of dark humor and heart-clenching suspense.Introduction (Stephen King) Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg) Crouch End (Tim Curry) Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith) Dolan’s Cadillac (Rob Lowe) The House on Maple St. (Tabitha King)Umney’s Last Case (Robert B. Parker)Head Down (Stephen King) Brooklyn August (Stephen J. Gould)

    Escaping from his North Carolina home after his father murders their family and commits suicide, Trevor McGee returns to confront the past, and finds himself haunted by the same demons that drove his father to insanity.

    All three titles included in this Fear Street Saga omnibus edition were USA Today bestsellers and have combined for nearly two of R.L.

    If you're looking for the short story, go here.This is Bo Hampton's 1993 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a faithful adaptation of Washington Irving's tale surrounding the ghostly inhabitants of Tarrytown, New York around the time of the American Revolution. The cast of characters is headed up by the Headless Horseman himself. This edition boasts new covers and 16 pages of new material, including numerous preliminary sketches of scenes and characters.

    She knows about the young girl who burned at the stake--and the bloody feud between two families that caused the unspeakable horror that has lasted 300 years!She knows, and she wants to tell.Are you sure you want to hear it?

    

    These stories are explorations of the extreme in human behaviour, where the bizarre chills the spine, and few authors can match Grabinski's depiction of seething sexual frenzy. The Dark Domain will introduce to English readers one of Europe's most important authors of literary fantasy.

    Max Goff means to change all that. Goff has made millions in the record business, but his heart is in New Age philosophy. He has learned that Crybbe was once a spiritual center of sorts, surrounded by ancient standing stones that were emblems of power. He means to replace the stones that have fallen - or been destroyed, as many of them were - and establish a thriving New Age community that will draw tourists and students from all over the world. What Max Goff doesn't know is that the standing stones of Crybbe were destroyed in the sixteenth century for a very good reason. Some of the endearing customs of the town - such as tolling the church bell for curfew each night - are actually deadly serious rituals. The people of Crybbe know that evil has been kept at bay here by the old ways, and that there's nothing quaint about them. And the power about to be unleashed by Max Goff is nothing like the soothing music and herbal remedies he associates with the New Age. This is the power of the old age, pent up for centuries and about to be released with deadly fury!

    For the land here is bound by a timeless, soul-chilling magic, and that power has cast its spell over all who have ever lived in this foreboding and dangerous place. All who came to Paradys were forever touched by its dread magic. The City was not one place but three, bound together by a labyrinth of ice yet separated, perhaps by time, perhaps by some long-forgotten enchantment, into Paradise, Paradis and Paradys—each cursed in an entirely different way... Witness the city of Paradys’ life and history through the eyes of its provocative and perverse citizens—a darkly fascinating odyssey as only World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee could imagine it.

    He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell's writing. Included here are "In the Bag," which won the British Fantasy Award, and two World Fantasy Award-winning stories, "The Chimney" and the classic "Mackintosh Willy." Campbell crowns the book with a length preface which traces his early publication history, discusses his youthful correspondence with August Derleth, illuminates the influence of H.P. Lovecraft on his early work, and gives an account of the creation of each story and the author's personal assessment of the works' flaws and virtues.In its first publication, a decade ago, Alone With the Horrors won both the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. For this new edition, Campbell has added one of his very first published stories, a Lovecraftian classic, "The Tower from Yuggoth." From this early, Cthulhian tale, to later works that showcase Campbell's growing mastery of mood and character, Alone With the Horrors provides readers with a close look at a powerful writer's development of his craft.

    While a computer guides their space tug, the crew of seven humans sleep - until scanners pick up a distress call from a remote dead planet. All the technology of the future cannot shield them from the nightmare of today.

    

    Unspeakable horrors haunt those who’ve walked on its terrifying path. And it all started with one family—the Fears.Go back to how it all began and discover the dark family secrets buried underneath years of terror, from who sentenced an innocent woman to burn at the stake, to why the Fear mansion caught on fire, and how forbidden love, a bloody feud, and dark magic unleashed the curse that has lasted for far too long.And how Fear Street became the evil place it is today.

    Roy Thomas, Mike Mignola and John Nyberg have transformed Francis Ford Coppola's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, into a comic art masterpiece that captures all the drama and visual excitement of the film.

    For brilliant, burnt-out cop Tim Brooks, the island offers the chance to get away from the crime-ridden streets of the city. And for Reverend George Osaro, ghost hunter, it is about to become a place of unspeakable terror.

    Tales of vampires and lurking spirits, of inexplicable evil cloaked in the guise of childish innocence, of ordinary people driven to unthinkable extremes by the perversities of fate -- they're all here, told with King's inimitable blend of dark humor and heart-clenching suspense.Chattery Teeth (Kathy Bates) My Pretty Pony (Jerry Garcia) Sneakers (David Cronenberg) Dedication (Lindsay Crouse)The Doctor’s Case (Tim Curry)The Moving Finger (Eve Beglarian) The End of the Whole Mess (Matthew Broderick) Home Delivery (Stephen King)

    Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell... and a few to glory.The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection - classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker.In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.Can you believe? Then come...

    Ex-cop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for eight years and he likes his park and his life the way it’s been. Safe. Tranquil. Predictable. But he’s about to be tested in so many ways. First the earthquakes begin…people begin to go missing…then there’s some mysterious water creature that’s taken up residence in the caves below Crater Lake and it’s not only growing in size, it’s aggressive and cunning…and very hungry. And it’s decided it likes human beings. To eat.And it can come up onto land.So Henry, with the help of his wife, Ann; a young paleontologist named Justin; and a band of brave men must not only protect his park and his people from the monster but somehow find where it lives and destroy it…before it can kill again. ***

    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.

    

    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)

    THE FACE OF FEAR was originally written under the pseudonym K.R. DWYER in 1978 and reissued in 1989 under the author's name.

    That's the only reason she's still alive - for now. She was sleeping over at her friend Evelyn's house when a group of killers broke in and tried to slaughter everyone. She saw Evelyn spitted on a spear, but Jody managed to escape, along with Evelyn's little brother, Andy. — Simon was one of the killers that gruesome night. His friends have left it up to him to find the only living witnesses to their massacre. Or else they'll butcher his family next. But Simon has his own reasons for wanting to get his hands on Jody...

    Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions —all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

    Stunned by a shocking display of black magic, Doyle witnesses a murder, nearly falling victim himself before being rescued by a secretive stranger: Jack Sparks, a man who claims to be special agent to Queen Victoria. He tells Doyle that he has been targeted by a diabolical coven of Satanists - the Dark Brotherhood.As they track their attackers across the length and breadth of Britain, assailed by forces of darkness both human and supernatural, Conan Doyle and Sparks unmask a terrifying conspiracy that threatens not only the Crown but the very fabric of modern civilization. Their only clue: a list of seven names, the leaders of the Brotherhood.Skeptical by nature and profession, Doyle labors to prove that the events he has witnessed - horrifying visions, zombies, ghouls, molecular alteration - are elaborate ruses with logical explanations. But if so, why? Simply because Doyle’s anti-occultist writings, never even published, have inadvertently exposed the Brotherhood’s intentions? Who is the elusive, seemingly superhuman mastermind behind the Seven? Most important, as Doyle continues to put his life in the hands of Jack Sparks, the question persists: Can Sparks be trusted?

    A timeless collection. Full color.MS. found in a bottle --Morella --Ligeia --The fall of the House of Usher --William Wilson --The murders in the Rue Morgue --The oval portrait --The masque of the Red Death --The pit and the pendulum --The tell-tale heart --The black cat --The facts in the case of M. Valdemar --The cask of Amontillado --Hop-frog. --Poems: The city in the sea --The sleeper --Lenore --The raven --Ulalume --For Annie --Annabel Lee --The bells --Alone.

    Learn how he struggled with Satan and how he terrorized in blood and evil for five centuries ... and up to the present day.Told over a series of long winter nights to master horror author C. Dean Andersson, this is the shocking, mesmerizing account of Dracula's history that renders all other versions anemic by comparison. Now is the time of revelation. I AM DRACULA. I bid you welcome to my world...

    The people of Canaan, Connecticut would not welcome a witch among them even a white witch a "good" witch. For years, she has lived quietly in a remote cabin with Amadeus, her feline familiar. Bit when an evil coven filled with creatures from the depths of hell torments Canaan with unspeakable horrors and brutal slayings, Amanda knows she can hide no longer. She is the one they are after. And she is the only one who can stop the terror.BLACK MAGICEver since fanatical witchhunters consigned her to an eternity of fury, Rachel Coxe has been waiting for her chance to come back to life. Now, centuries later, the time is right. Amanda is all that stands between her and her unholy vengeance. Flanked by the forces of darkness, Rachel is ready to unleash all the horror at her command

    He explains his fascination with graveyards, old and abandoned houses and dark, gothic churches.

    Behind a dusty Georgia carny show... In a mausoleum in Baton Rouge, or in an alley in Calcutta... Here wanderers come to rest, the lost and lonely press their bodies up against each other, the heat rises, flesh yields, bones are bared, blood spills. This is the landscape of today's most brilliant young horror writer, Poppy Z. Brite.Now, in a collection that sings like cutting edge rock 'n' roll and shows the deft touch of a master storyteller, Poppy Z. Brite weaves her unique spell of the sensual, the frightening, and the forbidden....

    a conventional woman in a conventional marriage. But when the neglected housewife meets a handsome stranger in an acting class, she crosses over to the other side of the city of angels . . . the deathless side. Transformed by her lover into an immortal, Kate prowls the streets of Hollywood with the need for blood.

    Because a predator lies in wait. This compelling new collection from the editors of the bestselling Stalkers tells of worlds where evil waits and watches...and kills. Each story will send chills up your spine, keep you burning the lights all night, and have you looking over your shoulder—just in case the Predator is there. So lock your doors, check your windows, and get ready to savor fiction that touches the primeval places…where all your screams are born.

    So begin the adventures of Trevor Bentley: a boy who embarked on an errand of mercy and ended up on a quest for vengeance, a boy who will bring the horrors of the Ripper to the New 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.

    But nobody lived long after she came to live with them. Maybe it had something to do with the ice pick she was fond of wielding...The Armand family learned their fatal lesson only too well. All except Pamela Armand, who was found covered in blood with an ice pick in her hand. Only Pam knew what really happened that horrible night. Yet when the police came, they took Pam and locked her away for twenty years.Now Pam is coming home. Now she plans to pay Zenoa back for what she did to her loved ones. But Zenoa has been waiting for Pam. And she plans to finish what she started!

    He's had plenty of time to plan his revenge to the last detail. Now he's ready to scare them to death, one by one.

    Bodett offers a new selection of wit as he takes listeners on a delightful return journey to the fictional Alaskan town, The End of the Road.

    People are buying CD-ROM drives for their computers just so they can play it. This fright-filled adventure puts the player inside a haunted house with a level of realism that is downright spooky. This huge game is so overwhelming that this strategy guide will prove indispensable.

    Lasdale. Features such classics as "Dog, Cat, and Baby", where three creatures on all fours wage all-out war, and "The Job", featuring an unemployed Elvis impersonator--with a knife. Includes an introduction by the author.

    

    Visited by Martin Thornton, a reporter who witnessed the shooting and ran to protect her, Caitlin initially believes that he is interested only in her ''story,'' but soon a romance develops. Then Caitlin's wheelchair is pushed into the river by a strange beast and she nearly drowns. Rescued by Sheila Garvie, a charismatic local healer, Caitlin soon sees that more than her spirits are being restored--so are her legs. Martin, suspicious, has Sheila's herbs analyzed and learns that the ingredients are the same as those used by Druidic shamans circa 2000 B.C. to summon the stag-antlered demon, Cernunnos, whose power is made graphically apparent when wanderers into the Fasach Wood are treated to revoltingly painful deaths at the hands (limbs) of trees. The increasing number of gory deaths propels Martin into a confrontation with Sheila--and a final cataclysm. Interesting Druidic lore augments this well-written romp, but it's only for those who can stomach blood-filled horrors described in precise detail.

    

    Potter's art of the bizarre is widely acknowledged to be the most intelligent and original work to appear in the fantasy/horror/SF realm in years. This first collection presents an extraordinary gallery of images displaying his remarkable technical virtuosity and turbulent imagination. Introduction by Stephen King. 105 color illustrations.

    FEAR WALKS THE NIGHT 'Fear Walks the Night'; 'Punch and Judy'; 'The Florentine Chest'; 'Variety Show'; Prince of Darkness'; 'Death of a Rat'; 'The Echo of a Song'; 'The House in the Forest'; 'Goosefeather Bed'; 'Christmas Eve'; 'Three Shall Meet'; 'Lisheen'; 'Voodoo Drums'; 'The Strange Affair at Upton Stonewold'; 'Gypsy Hands'; 'The End of the Lane'; 'Twilight'; 'Do You Believe in Ghosts?'; Afterword by Neil Bell.

    Parker had sworn never to return to Pacific Crest after the tragedy, but he has no choice when the investors he works for become interested in developing the area. But now he must face the terror again. . . .

    

    Yet in the expressive and eloquent prayers of Reb Noson, everyone can find himself. These prayers are based on the teachings in Rebbe Nachman's Likutey Moharan. Unique in Jewish spiritual literature, Likutey Tefilot includes prayers and supplications on every subject, suiting all moods and needs. In this edition, the English translation is printed facing the original Hebrew. Accompanying each prayer is a summary of the main points in the related teaching of Rebbe Nachman. Includes a full introduction to the concept of prayer and its centrality in Jewish life.

    RELENTLESS ACTION. STARK TERROR.An old man is possessed and tormented by an evil spirit. The ghost of a little girl returns to terrorise her isolated outback home. A house in an affluent suburb becomes a place of worship for followers of the black arts. Crew members begin to die as a cryogenics experiment on a space station goes horribly wrong. A corpse is grotesquely brought back to life in the name of science.Seemingly unconnected occurences - yet linked by one figure: ex-priest, Matthew Kindling.Fighting for his sanity and his life, relentlessly pursued by Darkness, Kindling is inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagining...

    DziemianowiczThe Drunkard’s Dream by Joseph Sheridan Le FanuThe Dream Woman by Wilkie CollinsA Dream of Red Hands by Bram StokerThe Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose BierceThe Yellow Sign by Robert W. ChambersThe Room in the Tower by E. F. BensonThree Lines of Old French by A. MerrittBeyond the Door by J. Paul SuterThe Shadows by Henry S. WhiteheadThe Black Stone by Robert E. HowardUbbo-Sathla by Clark Ashton SmithThe Watcher in the Green Room by Hugh B. CaveThe Lady in Gray by Donald WandreiScarlet Dream by C. L. MooreThe Dreams in the Witch-House by H. P. LovecraftThe Isle of the Sleeper by Edmond HamiltonPrescience by Nelson S. BondThe Dreams of Albert Moreland by Fritz Leiber, Jr.The Unspeakable Betrothal by Robert BlochLover, When You’re Near Me by Richard MathesonPerchance to Dream by Charles BeaumontThe River of Night’s Dreaming by Karl Edward WagnerThe Depths by Ramsey CampbellDream of a Mannikin by Thomas LigottiNever Visit Venice by Robert AickmanThe Dream of the Wolf by Scott BradfieldThe Last and Dreadful Hour by Charles L. GrantDream Baby by Bruce McAllisterThe Heart’s Desire by Chet Williamson In the Flesh by Clive Barker

    Yet the only way she can afford it is to win acceptance to The Ingraham, an exclusive, privately funded medical school and reasearch center reputed to be the nation's finest. The few selected students chosen by The Ingraham receive a completely free medical education: tuition, room. board, and lab fees all paid by the school.Once accepted to the school of her dreams, Quinn dives into her studies and into a steady realationship with a classmate. At last, her life seems perfect.Or is it? Quinn begins to notice subtle changes in her classmates: the way they act, the way they think -- all seem to be falling eerily into line with the messanic verison of the school's director. She confides her concerns to her boyfriend, who laughs them off -- until he finds a suspicious electronic monitoring device in his room.Then he disappears....Alone on the deserted campus during midyear break, Quinn finally encounters the dark truth about The Ingraham -- the true purpose of the institute's seemingly humane medical research, the motives that have determined the school's policy, and the secret mission of the hospital's intimidating security force, a small private army that is drawing an ever tighter net around her with each passing minute.What she dicovers is immense and terrifying -- a conspiracy that exposes her to a danger more frightening than death -- a cynical plot that undermines everything she has ever believed about the healing arts.This is suspense fiction at its grandest: instantly and relentlessly compelling, and touching directly on an issue that heads the list of our national and personal priorites.

    Featured here are 13 monster tales, nine original and four reprinted favorites, by some of the best writers in the genre--Jack Prelutsky, Jane Yolen, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.My little brother is a monster / Bruce Coville --Monster in the closet / Jane Yolen --Merlin's knight school / Michael Markiewicz --Uncle Joshua and the grooglemen / Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald --Friendly persuasion / Bruce Coville --Kokolimalayas, the bone man / Laura Simms --The thing that goes burp in the night / Sharon Webb --Personality problem / Joe R. Lansdale --Duffy's jacket / Bruce Coville --The bogeyman / Jack Prelusky --Bloody Mary / Patrick Bone --The beast with a thousand teeth / Terry Jones --Timor and the furnace troll / John Barnes

    Others have heard tales, but know better than to believe them. The wise speak of The Book of Nod, but none have seen this fabled book of ancient lore.These are their tales...Their stories begin with the Chronicle of Caine and the earliest nights of the vampire. The Chronicles of Shadows reveals Caine's hidden teachings. Finally, the Chronicle of Secrets unveils the deepest mysteries of the Damned, including the coming of dread Gehenna.

    The Queen of the Cold-Blooded Tales presents six of her scariest stories.

    

    

    No dumb stray from an animal shelter was going to make him stop missing Will. But Cobalt was a special dog. A cross between an Alsatian and a Husky, his strange blue eyes glowed with an eerie kind of understanding...just like Will's used to.For Cobalt does understand...all too well. He knows Alan's secrets -- even the most terrible one about why Will really drowned down at Amber Lake. He shares Alan's rage. And he wants revenge.It would be so easy -- so right -- to set Cobalt free...free to kill, again and again. But once the bloodlust is unleashed, there can be no turning back...

    A group of unloved, runaway children escapes into the deep woods and seeks shelter in an abandoned mental hospital, where they form a club to protect the youngest and weakest of them. But not even the strongest of the children can resist the ancient evil that lurks within the walls of the decaying building.

    BurrageThurlow's Christmas Story - John Kendrick BangsThe Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael and the Goblin - W.S. GilbertWho Rides with Santa Anna? - Edward D. HochThe Phantom Hag - Attributed to Guy de MaupassantThe Tale of the German Student - Washington IrvingThe Ensouled Violin - Helena BlavatskyDoorslammer - Donald A. WollheimThe Red Room - H.G. WellsThe Monk of Horror - AnonymousMr. Justice Harbottle - Sheridan Le FanuThe Flying Dutchman - TraditionalThe Parlor-Car Ghost - AnonymousThe Woman's Ghost Story - Algernon BlackwoodMiss Jeromette and the Clergyman - Wilkie CollinsThe Phantom Woman - AnonymousThe Spectre Bride - AnonymousThe Midnight Embrace - M.G. LewisThe Philosophy of Relative Existences - Frank R. StocktonThe Doll's Ghost - F. Marion CrawfordFour Ghosts in Hamlet - Fritz LeiberThe Old Mansion - AnonymousThe Dead Woman's Photograph - AnonymousUntitled ghost story - E.T. HoffmannThe Castle of the King - Bram StokerThe Canterville Ghost - Oscar WildeA Suffolk Miracle - TraditionalFather Stein's Tale - Robert Hugh BensonThe Old Nurse's Story - Elizabeth GaskellThe Body Snatcher - Robert Louis StevensonThe Ghostly Rental - Henry JamesThe Phantom Regiment - James GrantThe Tale of the Bagman's Uncle - Charles DickensThe North Mail - Amelia B. Edwards"The Penhale Broadcast" - Jack SnowStaley Fleming's Hallucination - Ambrose BierceThe Ghost of the Count - Anonymous

    Because Brown is a middle-school teacher, her stories are alive with settings, sounds, and images familiar to young audiences, as well as adults.

    F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr, and many others who know well how to manipulate a reader's emotions. From Washington Irving comes "The Adventure of My Grandfather" and from Saki, "The Cobweb." Bill Pronzini plays a horrifying game of "Peekaboo," while Frances Garfield portrays "The House at Evening" to alarming effect. This unique and very special collection is like a carnival ride of terror that you'll want to go on again and again.

    To pass the time as they wait repairs, the kids start a game of hide-and-seek. But some of them really do get lost...