THE WORLD'S GREATEST HORROR STORIES

London: Magpie Books, 2004. Book. Illus. by Simon Marsden;. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 450 pp. (xii) Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Simon Marsden. This anthology contains: The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers; Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White; The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith; The Hog by William Hope Hodgson; The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen; The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers; The Foot of the Mummy by Theophile Gautier; The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce; The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford; The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman; The Dead Valley by Ralph Adams Cram; The Signalman by Charles Dickens; The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer Lytton; The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Horla by Guy de Maupassant; The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe; Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb; The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling; Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson; Mrs Lunt by Hugh Walpole; Count Magnus by M. R. James; and Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft; followed by Afterword: Lovecraft and the Literature of Cosmic Fear..