Aficionados of supernatural fiction will take perverse pleasure in the hair-raising horrors recounted in these outstanding examples of the genre. Featuring a gallery of ghostly characters, forbidding landscapes, gloomy country manors, and occult occurrences, this spine-tingling collection features works by such masters of the macabre as Bram Stoker (the creator of Dracula), J. S. LeFanu, Ambrose Bierce, and M. R. James.
The ten classics included in this volume are: The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs, E. G. Swain's Bone to His Bone, The Rose Garden by M. R. James, Dickens's To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt, LeFanu's Dickon the Devil, Stoker's The Judge's Salt, The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce, Amelia B. Edwards's The Phantom Coach, A Ghost Story by Jerome K. Jerome, and E. F. Benson's The Confession of Charles Linkworth.