by retold by Mike Stocks (2002)
Six terrifying tales to unsettle and disturb the mind are powerfully retold for today's readers in this collection of classic chillers from the Victorian age.
Herbert van Thal
Twenty-one stories to make you bristle and shiver. Twenty-one stories to disturb your dreams. Twenty-one stories on the wings of terror. By twenty-one of the greatest masters of the macabre ever to write in the English language.
Louie Stowell
Features three original stories of vampires across the ages. Suitable for children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories.
Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg
Contains: The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- Green tea / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- The yellow sign / Robert W. Chambers -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The white people / Arthur Machen -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- Casting the runes / M.R. James -- The graveyard rats / Henry Kuttner -- Pigeons from hell / Robert E. Howard -- It / Theodore Sturgeon -- Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the ripper / Robert Bloch -- The small assassin / Ray Bradbury -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- Calling card / Ramsey Campbell -- Coin of the realm / Charles L. Grant -- The reach / Stephen King.
Michele Slung
Contains: The revelations of 'Becka Paulson / Stephen King -- Sea lovers / Valerie Martin -- Psychopomp / Haydn Middleton -- A glowing future / Ruth Rendell -- The tiger returns to the mountain / T.L. Parkinson -- Consanguinity / Ronald Duncan -- Keeping house / Michael Blumlein -- The villa Désirée / May Sinclair -- Cleave the vampire, or, a gothic pastorale / Patrick McGrath -- The swords / Robert Aickman -- Salon satin / Carolyn Banks -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hitchens -- Wings / Harriet Zinnes -- The basilisk / R. Murray Gilchrist -- A quarter past you / Jonathan Carroll -- The master builder / Christopher Fowler -- Festival / Eric McCormack -- Ladies in waiting / Hugh B. Cave -- Death and the single girl / Thomas M. Disch -- Master / Angela Carter -- The conqueror worm / Stephen R. Donaldson -- Jacqueline Ess: her will and testament / Clive Barker.