Publisher's Synopsis
An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
-The story explores the supposed haunting of a house under the occupation of an invalid married couple, their children, and their servants.
Dracula's Guest
-An Englishman visits Munich and in spite of the hotelier's warning to not be late back, leaves his carriage and wanders toward the direction of an "unholy" village, only to find a tall and thin stranger at the crest of a hill.
Green Tea
-Based on the psychological complexities of human mind, the work is pervaded by a mysterious aura. A drink opens the inner eye of the protagonist. What follows is a mind-boggling tale of eeriness and reality.
In The Dark
-Two best friends are bedevilled by a third friend, who haunts them from grade school to adulthood. He seems to intuit things he can't know, and always tells the truth.
The Black Stone
-"And the thought recurs to me--if such a monstrous entity as the Master of the Monolith somehow survived its own unspeakably distant epoch so long--what nameless shapes may even now lurk in the dark places of the world?"
The Call of Cthulhu
-While sorting the affairs of his deceased Uncle, a man accidentally stumbles upon a series of dark secrets connected to an ancient horror waiting to be freed.
The Devil in the Belfry
-The quiet town is devastated by the arrival of a devilish figure playing a big fiddle who comes straight down from a hill, goes into the belltower.
The Dualitists
-Adolescent troublemakers Harry Merford and Tommy Stanton take the ancient rite of male bonding to a macabre level after receiving a set of matching knives for Christmas.
The Dunwich Horror
-In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, a most unusual child is born.
The Familiar
-A sea captain, living in Dublin, is stalked by "The Watcher," a strange dwarf who resembles a person from his past.
The Haunter of the Dark
-The Church of Starry Wisdom who uses an ancient artifact to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space...
The Heads of Apex
-Far under the sea-floor Solino's submarine carries two American soldiers of fortune to startling adventure among the Vampire Heads of Apex.
The Red Hand
-The story centers around a young girl's diary, relating her encounters with the deadly inhabitants of an alternate world.
The Signal Man
-A lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger and experiences a series of supernatural events.
The Tell-Tale Heart
-Told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed.
The Vampire Maid
-Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition.
The White People
-A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses..
There is a Reaper...
-"Doctors had given him just one month to live... What comes afterward? There was one way to find out--ask a dead man!"
The Demon Spell
-When spiritualism was all the craze, no party was reckoned complete without a spirit-rapping seance.
