Supernatural horror in literature / H.P. Lovecraft -- The Signalman / C. Dickens -- The house and the brain / E. Bulwer-Lytton -- The body snatcher / R.L. Stevenson -- The spider / H.H. Ewers -- The foot of the mummy / T. Gautier -- The horla / G. de Maupassant -- The fall of the house of Usher / E.A. Poe -- The damned thing / A. Bierce -- The upper berth / F.M. Crawford -- The yellow sign / R.W. Chambers -- The shadows on the wall / M.E. Wilkins-Freeman -- The dead valley / R.A. Cram -- Fishhead / I.S. Cobb -- Lukundoo / E.L. White -- The double shadow / C.A. Smith -- The mark of the beast / R. Kipling -- Negotium perambulans / E.F. Benson -- Mrs. Lunt / H. Walpole -- The hog / W.H. Hodgson -- The great god Pan / A. Machen -- Count Magnus / M.R. James -- Afterword: Lovecraft and the 'Literature of cosmic fear'.
Summary
"21 classics of the supernatural, chosen by the Master of Horror himself"--Cover.
