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Did you shudder at the Beast with Five Fingers inching its inexorable way to murder? Did you shiver when the Phantom of the Opera offered a kind of love that was worse than hate? Did you scream at the Fly, that misbegotten atomic horror? You can thrill to them all again for Peter Haining has... read more
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“I made up that story," said McDunn quietly, "to try to explain why this thing keeps coming back to the lighthouse every year. The Fog Horn calls, I think, it comes ...”
First Sentence edit
"What is horror? Horror is a matter of taste -- and I don't mean the blood." Alfred Hitchcock
Table of Contents edit
Editor's Foreword
Introduction, by Vincent Price
The Devil in a Convent, by Francis Oscar Mann
The Lunatics, by Edgar Allan Poe
Puritan Passions, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
The Magician, by Somerset Maugham
Freaks, by Tod Robbins
Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell
Dracula's Daughter, by Bram Stoker
All That Money Can Buy, by Stephen Vincent Benet
The Body Snatcher, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Beast With Five Fingers, by W. F. Harvey
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, by Ray Bradbury
The Fly, by George Langelaan
Black Sunday, by Nikolai Gogol
Incident at Owl Creek, by Ambrose Bierce
Monster of Terror, by H. P. Lovecraft
The Skull, by Robert Bloch
The Oblong Box, by Edgar Allan Poe
Afterward, by Christopher Lee
Cast and Credits
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter Haining (Editor)
Other Contributors:
- Vincent Price (Introduction)
- Christopher Lee (Afterword)
- Francis Oscar Mann (Contributor) - The Devil in a Convent (short story, originally titled The Devil in a Nunnery)
- Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor) - The Lunatic (short story, originally titled The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether); The Oblong Box (short story)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor) - Puritan Passions (short story, originally titled Feathertop)
- Gaston Leroux (Contributor) - Phantom of the Opera (novella)
- W. Somerset Maugham (Contributor) - The Magician (short story)
- Tod Robbins (Contributor) - Freaks (short story, originally titled Spurs)
- Richard Edward Connell (Contributor) - The Most Dangerous Game (short story)
- Bram Stoker (Contributor) - Dracula's Daughter (short story, originally titled Dracula's Guest)
- Stephen Vincent BeneĢt (Contributor) - All That Money Can Buy (short story, originally titled The Devil and Daniel Webster)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor) - The Body Snatcher (short story)
- William Fryer Harvey (Contributor) - The Beast With Five Fingers (short story)
- Ray Bradbury (Contributor) - The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (short story, originally titled The Foghorn)
- George Langelaan (Contributor) - The Fly (short story)
- Nikolai Gogol (Contributor) - Black Sunday (short story, originally titled The Viy)
- Ambrose Bierce (Contributor) - Incident at Owl Creek (short story, originally titled An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge)
- H. P. Lovecraft (Contributor) - Monster of Terror (short story, originally titled The Colour Out of Space)
- Robert Bloch (Contributor) - The Skull (short story, originally titled The Skull of the Marquis de Sade)
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