"Presented by the Horror Writers Association, this collection of classic short stories were written by iconic author-and creator of Sherlock Holmes-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Classic stories of horror and terror include: The Parasite, The Mystery of Sasassa Valley, J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement, The Captain of the "Pole-Star," The Great Keinplatz Experiment, The Ring of Thoth, The Bully of Brocas Court, Selecting a Ghost, and How it Happened"--

Published two years after Bram Stoker's death, this collection of short stories from the famed author contains nine pieces filled with horrors and thrills. Filled with haunting rats, inexplicable tension, and an appearance from Dracula himself, Stoker's short stories uphold his reputation from his previous works and allows new audiences to re-discover the master of horror. This collection includes Dracula's Guest, The Judge's House, The Gipsy Prophecy,...

"In his first collection of short fiction, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly offers a selection of dark, daring, and utterly haunting tales. Here are lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In The New Daughter, a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; in The Underbury Witches a pair of London detectives find themselves battling a particularly...

"Word play a crucial and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the Gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where it is easy to lose your way. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees reach into underworlds of pagan myth and magic. Forests are full of ghosts. Lining the path through this realm of folklore and fear are twelves stories from across Britain, telling tales of whispering voices and maddening sights...

"From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to H.P. Lovecraft's accursed New England hills, this collection features some of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre"--

A collection of six short stories which feature a variety of monstrous creatures by the author of the Redwall series.

Collects twenty short horror stories published between 1816 and 1914 that have been overshadowed by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, including Bram Stoker's "The Squaw" and L.T. Meade's "The Woman with the Hood."

Published as a "shilling shocker," Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr. Jekyll's strange association with "damnable young man" Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's...

"Covering the latest in monsters and the macabre, horror expert Spratford's resource is ideal as both an introductory guide for novices and a fount of new ideas for horror-aware reference staff."--

A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published...