Best Horror from Fantasy Tales

by Stephen Jones, David Sutton

Overview

This illustrated collection includes stories by the world's leading masters of the macabre, including Clibe Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber and Dennis Etchison.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472113672
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	10/10/2013
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
Sales rank:	488,863
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Stephen Jones is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards, as well as being a multiple recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee.

A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant, he has written and edited more than 130 books, including the Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, A Book of Horrors, Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M.R. James, Psycho-Mania! and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror and Zombie Apocalypse! series.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xvii
	The Forbidden: Urban myth becomes horrifying reality	1
	Dreams May Come: What if it was possible to go back and change the past?	39
	The Dark Country: A bizarre and horrific tale of death in Mexico	50
	Dead to the World: The pores of his skin were sealing over...	68
	The Generation Waltz: In the town of Oxrun Station the dead sometimes come back	77
	Don't Open That Door: What terror lurked inside the forbidden cupboard?	86
	The Frolic: Dare you ignore the nightmare visions of a lunatic?	96
	The Sorcerer's Jewel: An artist-scientist beholds an horrific world	110
	The Strange Years: When the End finally came it was unexpected and deadly!	126
	Red: He had to go back and collect it all	132
	Ever the Faith Endures: What eldritch secret lives on inside the old house?	135
	Extension 201: A missing telephone extension hides a terrifying secret	146
	The Last Wolf: What is left when you're the Last Writer?	163
	Tongue in Cheek: A deserted road leads to supernatural terror	172
	In the X-Ray: Do the dead come back?	183
	The Bad People: Beware the mala gente, for death will surely follow	196
	A Place of no Return: A professor's skepticism is brutally shattered!	209
	The Terminus: Sixteen thousand people are lost in the London Underground!	221
	The Green Man: Eldritch evil survives deep in the forest	226
	The Voice of the Beach: What terrible power controls the minds of men?	236
	Afterword	263