A collection of dark fantasy and horror stories written in 2010, with selections by Holly Black, Neil Gaiman, Peter Watts, Tanith Lee, Margo Lansdale, and others.
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its…
A man haunted by his own imagination, hidden writing that leads to buried treasure, a fisherman fighting for his life in a powerful whirlpool. In these stories by Edgar Allan Poe we meet people struggling with death. Others are strying to solve the darkest of mysteries. Which of…
A complete volume of the Nobel Prize-winning writer's fantastical pieces ranges from traditional ghost stories to works of psychological horror and includes the works "The Phantom Rickshaw," "The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes," and "The Mark of the Beast."
Here, as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive women and an earnest young woman researches a city slum, Barker maps the boundless vistas of the unfettered imagination -- only to uncover a profound sense of terror and overwhelming dread.
A comprehensive presentation of the evolution of the horror story, filled with significant and powerful works by the masters of the genre.