Great Horror Stories

Tales by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and others.

Introduction by Mike Ashley. 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.

"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

Introduction
The mark of the best - Rudyard Kipling
Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad - M. R. James
The derelict - William Hope Hodgson
Sredni Vashtar - Saki
The willows - Algernon Blackwood
A tale of three who were blind - Lzumi Kyoka
The damned thing - Ambrose Bierce
The white people - Arthur Machen
Dracula's guest - Bram Stoker
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe
The lottery - Shirley Jackson
The beast with five fingers - W. F. Harvey
The color out of space - H. P. Lovecraft