The Valancourt Book Of Horror Stories – Jenkins, James D.; Cagle, Ryan

Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin – John Blackburn – Michael Blumlein – Mary Cholmondeley – Hugh Fleetwood – Stephen Gregory – Gerald Kersh – Francis King – M. G. Lewis – Florence Marryat – Richard Marsh – Michael McDowell – Christopher Priest – Forrest Reid – Bernard Taylor – Hugh Walpole

‘The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting . . . waiting to clutch and claw and savage’ – AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn

‘The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she’d hardly had a chance to utter it’ – OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor

‘The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature – and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ‘ – THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin