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Night chills

stories of suspense and horror
Pages
260
Published
1975
Language
English

Synopsis

Into the mind's darkest secrets...

Robert Block, Fritz Lieber, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft...

these are only a few of the renowned horror storytellers whose work haunts the pages of this book. Here you'll discover a fatal night-time game of hide-and-seek...a rusted, mouldy truck containing a ghastly artifact...a sinister fairy tale encounter in the autumn countryside...a strange device which calls the dead from the grave...an allergy with a macabre origin...a Halloween prank which brings eerie consequences...a touch of slimy evil in an ordinary family...these and many other chilling experiences await within these pages, to haunt the reader with a breath of cold terror.

At Midnight, in the Month of June - short story - Ray Bradbury
A : B : O. - novelette - Walter de la Mare
Minnesota Gothic - shortstory - Thomas M. Disch
The Jugular Man - shortstory - Joseph Payne Brennan
Alice and the Allergy - shortstory - Fritz Leiber
The Island - shortstory - L. P. Hartley
Yesterday's Witch - shortstory - Gahan Wilson
Wet Season - shortstory - Dennis Etchison
Innsmouth Clay - shortstory - H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
People of the Black Coast - shortstory - Robert E. Howard
Call First - shortstory - Ramsey Campbell
From Beyond the Stars - novelette - Richard L. Tierney
The Funny Farm - shortstory - Robert Bloch
The Face in the Wind - novelette - Carl Jacobi
Goodman's Place - shortstory - Manly Wade Wellman
Kellerman's Eyepiece - shortstory - Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Sticks - novelette - Karl Edward Wagner
The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes - shortstory - Marjorie Bowen

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence

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