The Cotswolds – land of green fields, manor houses and thatched-roof villages, where the screams of ancient massacres linger in the leafy woods, faeries weave sadistic spells, and pagan gods stir beneath the moonlit hills … The flesh-eating fiend of St. John’s The vengeful spirit of Little Lawford The satanic murders at Meon Hill The ghastly mutilation at Wychavon The demon dancers of Warwick The cannibal feast at Alvington The twisted revenant of Stratford-upon-Avon And many more chilling tales by Ramsey Campbell, Simon Clark, Alison Littlewood, Gary McMahon, Reggie Oliver, Joel Lane and other award-winning masters and mistresses of the macabre. TABLE OF CONTENTS In The Quiet And In The Dark by Alison Littlewood Fury From Beyond Straw Babies by Gary McMahon A Bizarre and Terrible Event Charm by Reggie Oliver The Grimmest Castle in All England Hoxlip And After by Christopher Harman The Undead Who Wander The Wye The Shakespeare Curse by Simon Clark Oxford’s Black Assize The Scouring by Thana Niveau The Cannibal Feast Wassailing by Steve Lockley Bloodbath Under A Spectral Sun The Silent Dance by Joel Lane What Walks In Ettington Park? Waiting For Nicky by Antonia James The Satanic Slayings at Meon Hill The Horror Under Warrendown by Ramsey Campbell Worcester’s Most Odious Relic The Lurker by Gary Fry The Beast of St. John’s The Cotswold Olimpicks by Simon Kurt Unsworth God’s Dire Warning A Taste of Honey, A Horror of Stone by John Llewellyn Probert Lovell’s Long Wait Bog Man by Paul Finch