"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." —H. P. Lovecraft Fans of horror and the supernatural will savor the dark delicacies in this spine-tingling anthology of the genre's very best. Featuring an international gallery of the world's great horror writers, this collection celebrates one of literature's most popular forms of fiction with 14 masterfully crafted tales of terror, including: Rudyard Kipling - The Mark of the Beast ; M.R. James - "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" ; William Hope Hodgson - The Derelict ; Saki (H.H. Munro) - Stedni Vashtar ; W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw ; Algernon Blackwood - The Willows ; Izumi Kyoka - A Tale of Three Who Were Blind ; Ambrose Bierce - The Damned Thing ; Arthur Machen - The White People ; Bram Stoker - Dacula's Guest ; Edgar Allan Poe - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar ; Shirley Jackson - The Lottery ; W.F. Harvey - The Beast With Five Fingers ; H.P. Lovecraft - The Colour Out of Space