Stories to freeze your blood, by 12 Masters of the Malevolent! The Victim: "Stephen took his victim's body out of the bath, wrapped a thick towel around the neck and head and carried it down to the diary. And there he cut it up into seventeen pieces." The Spider: "She heard a terrible, haunting scream - then a curious muffled rumble that a creature with eight long legs might make if it were running." The Killing Bottle: "The butterfly must have been stronger than it looked; its frantic fluttering could be heard through the thick walls of its glass prison. It pressed itself into corners, its straining delicate tongue coiling and uncoiling in its efforts to suck in a breath of living air." Contents: \* The Spider by Elizabeth Walter \* The Book by Margaret Irwin \* Something Strange by Kingsley Amis \* Satan's Circus by Lady Eleanor Smith \* The Photograph by Nigel Kneale \* The Beast With Five Fingers by William Fryer Harvey \* As Gay As Cheese by Joan Aiken \* The Hound Of Death by Agatha Christie \* Judith by Hjalmar Bergman \* The Victim by May Sinclair \* The House On Big Faraway by Norman Watson \* The Killing Bottle by L. P. Hartley

Hair-raising horror! 13 stories to make your flesh creep! Contents: \* The Doll by Francis King \* The Idiots by Joseph Conrad \* Looking For Something To Suck by R. Chetwynd Hayes \* The Head by Edith Nesbit \* Chains by Nigel Kneale \* The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood \* The Flesh Is Weak by Sydney J. Bounds \* Seven Floors by Dino Buzzati \* New Moon by Malachi Whitaker \* Mess by Francis King \* Young Blood by Sydney J. Bounds \* The Telegram by Violet Hunt \* Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee

Grisly, Gruesome and Grotesque! 15 of the Blood-curdling Best! The Graveyard Rats: "The long-dead corpse made a faint groaning sound as it crawled towards Masson, stretching its ragged lips in a grin of dreadful hunger..." To Reach the Sea: "There was no doubt about it, absolutely no doubt at all. The wig was growing..." The Sea Raiders: "Their bodies lay flatly on the rocks, and their eyes regarded him with evil interest... Then, slowly uncoiling their tentacles, they all began moving towards him..." Contents: \* The Blue Lenses by Daphne du Maurier \* The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury \* A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom \* The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner \* The Lottery by Shirley Jackson \* The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells \* The Lottery by Shirley Jackson \* Georgy Porgy by Roald Dahl \* To Reach The Sea by Monica Dickens \* The Monster by R. Chetwynd-Hayes \* His Brother’s Keeper by W. W. Jacobs \* The Hand by Guy de Maupassant \* Mrs. Amsworth by E. F. Benson \* The Waxwork by A. M. Burrage \* Quid Pro Quo by Mary Danby

Heart-thumping Horror! 16 Dark Tales of Devilish Delight! The Cocoon: "Something came through the door and half crawled, half fluttered to Denny's bed. Then it wormed its way beneath the sheet and rested like a sticky pulp upon Denny's mouth." Miss Gentilbelle: "The parakeet screamed for a considerable time... When it was silent, the white fingers that clutched it were stained with a dark thin fluid." Party Pieces: "From the kitchen there came a noise of throbbing - a terrible, low heartbeat, drumming remorselessly..." Contents: \* The Quest for Blank Claveringi by Patricia Highsmith \* Back for Christmas by John Collier \* The Cocoon by John B. L. Goodwin \* The End of the Party by Graham Greene \* Hard Luck Story by Pamela Vincent \* Srendi Vashtar by Saki \* Miss Gentilbelle by Charles Beaumont \* The Pioneers of Pike’s Peak by Basil Tozer \* Miriam by Truman Capote \* Cold Sleep by Sydney J. Bounds \* The Mysterious Mansion by Honore de Balzac \* Earth to Earth by Robert Graves \* The Man and the Snake by Ambrose Bierce \* Close Behind Him by John Wyndham \* Letter to a Young Lady in Paris by Julio Cortazar \* Party Pieces by Mary Danby

Tales of Tingling Terror, by 15 Experts in Evil! Contents: \* The Man Who Liked Dickens by Evelyn Waugh \* Tomorrow’s Child by Joyce Marsh \* The Horror At Chilton Castle by Joseph Payne Brennan \* The Silver Mask by Hugh Walpole \* Dark Dream by Elizabeth Fancett \* The Bandaged Man by Rosemary Timperley \* The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman \* The Girl from Tomango by Rick Ferriera \* The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke \* Miss Brood’s Speciality by Roger F. Dunkley \* The Second Nail by Stuart Cloete \* The Sanguivites by Kay Leigh \* A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins \* Homecoming by Sydney J. Bounds \* The Natterjack by Mary Danby

Fifteen tales of spine-chilling horror... Contents: \* Mummy to The Rescue by Angus Wilson \* The Smiling People by Ray Bradbury \* Now Showing at the Roxy by Harry E. Turner \* The Trapdoor by C. D. Herriot \* A Low Profile by Charles Lloyd (Charles Birkin) \* De Mortuis by John Collier \* A Little Knowledge by Roger Malisson \* The Brazilian Cat by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle \* A Sin of Omission by R. Chetwynd-Hayes \* The Thing in the Hall by E. F. Benson \* Acid Test by Margot Arnold \* Telling the Bees by Elizabeth Walter \* At The Corner Of The Eye by David Langford \* The Devil’s Ape by Barnard Stacey \* Keeping In Touch by Mary Danby

Sixteen tales of spine-chilling malevolence... \* Bobby by John Halkin \* A Question of Conscience by Catherine Gleason \* The Eye of the Mandala by Rosemary Timperley \* Surprise! Surprise! by Roger F. Dunkley \* The Frogwood Roundabout by Roy Harrison \* Dead and Alive by Marion Pitman \* Mary by Rog Pile \* For Charity’s Sake by Barbara Joan Eyre \* Buffy by Philip Welby \* Someone in the Room by Elizabeth Fancett \* No-Face by Sydney J. Bounds \* Bert’s Resurrection by Dorothy Kilmurry-Hall \* The People Opposite by Sally Franklin \* The Rainbow by Maureen O’Hara \* The Moon Web by Adrian Cole \* The Salesman by Roger Malisson \* Nursery Tea by Mary Danby

Twelve tales of shuddering fear... Contents: \* Cold Spell by David Langford \* Vendetta by Guy De Maupassant \* The Circus by Sydney J. Bounds \* Undesirable Guests by William Charlton \* An American Organ by Anthony Burgess \* The Warrior’s Return by Ken Alden \* One Of The Dead by William Wood \* Anaesthetic by Barbara Joan Eyre \* The Werewolf by Frederick Marryat \* Safe As Houses by Nyki Blatchly \* Herbert West - Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft \* Woodman’s Knot by Mary Danby

Contents: The Farmer by Steve Rasnic Tem See How They Run by Terry Tapp The Wheel by H. Warner Munn Blackberries by Roger Clarke The Feet by Mark Channing Creepogs by Phillip C. Heath The Horror of Abbot’s Grange by Frederick Cowles Oblige Me with a Loaf by Dorothy K. Haynes Mother’s Day by Alison Prince Switching Off by Roger Malisson The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker Curleylocks by Mary Danby

Tales of hideous torment, to hold you in a ceaseless grip of ice-cold terror.