This book has something for fans of each section of our catalogue. Those who have enjoyed our Gothic Classics series will surely find Matthew Gregory Lewis’s rare ghost story in verse,The Grim White Woman, to their liking. If, like us, you love a good, old-fashioned Victorian horror story, you’ll relish the creepy tales we’ve included by authors hugely popular in their day but now little known, like Florence Marryat, Richard Marsh and Mary Cholmondeley. Readers who have appreciated our efforts to rediscover lost gay fiction will be pleased to find contributions from authors such as Forrest Reid, Hugh Walpole and Francis King in this volume. Of course, no horror anthology would be complete without stories from some of the great contemporary masters of horror like Michael McDowell, Bernard Taylor and Stephen Gregory. But perhaps the biggest surprise for some readers will be the excellent tales by writers not normally thought of as ‘horror authors’, like Christopher Priest, Michael Blumlein and Francis King.Of the seventeen stories in this book, two have never been published before anywhere and five others are reprinted here for the first time outside the collections in which they originally appeared. The others, we think, are uncommon enough that they should prove new to most readers.AUNTY GREEN by John BlackburnMISS MACK by Michael McDowellSCHOOL CROSSING by Francis KingA PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT by Richard MarshTHE PROGRESS OF JOHN ARTHUR CRABBE by Stephen GregoryTHE FROZEN Man by John TrevenaCALIFORNIA BURNING by Michael BlumleinLET LOOSE by Mary CholmondeleyOUT OF SORTS by Bernard TaylorTHE HEAD AND THE HAND by Christopher PriestTHE GHOST OF CHARLOTTE CRAY by Florence MarryatTHE GRIM WHITE WOMAN by M. G. LewisTHE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles BirkinFURNISHED APARTMENTS by Forrest ReidSOMETHING HAPPENED by Hugh FleetwoodTHE TARN by Hugh WalpoleTHE GENTLEMAN ALL IN BLACK by Gerald Kersh