Tales of horror, mystery, and the supernatural. Includes stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, M R James, Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, Oscar Wilde, J Sheridan Le Fanu, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Frank Norris, J K Bangs, Fitz-James O'Brien, Mary Shelley, E and H Heron, Bram Stoker, E Nesbit, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Ralph A Cram, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, and Amelia B Edwards. These stories were compiled by Vic Parker, writer of the Foreward.