These are not good Christmas tales that are so good to read to children at night . These are scary stories about the darkness that is behind the threshold and waiting for you to take one wrong step, about strange and creepy creatures that wander outside the window and sometimes look at your soul. Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio collected the best stories in the genre of horror and suspense, written by recognized masters of American prose (Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Moorcock, Walter Mosley, Michael Swanwick...) Here is a collection of smart, thin, exquisitely intelligent, exciting and truly scary stories: the door through which the Abyss peers into a person.