Contains twenty-six stories which depict a wide range of methods for raising the dead by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, Ramsey Campbell, and H.P. Lovecraft.
A collection of stories about vampires and werewolves, including Jane Yolen's "Mama Gone," Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Vampire," and an excerpt from Bram Stoker's "Dracula.".
A collection of macabre stories from English author Anthony Horowitz, including "Why Horror Has No Place in Children's Books," "The Man Who Killed Darren Shan," "The Cobra," "Robo-Nanny," "My Bloody French Exchange," "Seven Cuts," and others.
Ghastly situations unfold to their grisly and unexpected conclusions in an anthology that includes works by Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Roald Dahl, and others.
Recounts the story behind the 1816 night in which a gathering of English poet Lord Byron's friends led to the creation of "Frankenstein" and the first vampire story, and the events which followed that fateful night and led to the deaths of nearly all those present.