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Chamber of Horrors

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Robert GravesThomas BurkeWilliam SansomH. G. WellsH. Russell WakefieldSeabury QuinnW. W. JacobsRobert BlochRod SerlingStephen KingAmbrose BierceRamsey CampbellH.P. LovecraftRobert SilverbergRudyard KiplingJohn BlackburnMary Elizabeth BraddonEdgar Allan PoeGuy de MaupassantBram StokerRoald DahlFrederick CowlesSheridan Le FanuRobert Ernest VernèdeE. F. BensonRobert AickmanMontague Rhodes JamesSakiWilliam Hope HodgsonR. Chetwynd-Hayes1 editions

The ghoulish, disturbing and macabre tales contained in this anthology of fear draw the reader into a world inhabited by the dark and threatening monsters of nightmare. Legendary creators of horror and suspense such as the father of vampire literature Bram Stoker and Ambrose 'Bitter' Bierce combine within these pages with modern mastercraftsmen like *Psycho* author Robert Bloch and phenomenal bestseller writer Stephen King. Their stories range from grisly supernatural revenge ("The Squaw") to black humour of a fantastic nature ("Edifice Complex") and the mystery and menace of fiendish possession ("The Night of the Tiger"). The collection encompasses recognised masterpieces of the genre such as H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" - a sustained evocation of monstrous violence in a sleepy mid-Western town - as well as stories by famous authors not usually associated with this type of fiction - H. G. Wells and Robert Silverberg for example. Within this *Chamber of Horrors* also lurk haunted houses such as H. Russell Wakefield's "The Red Lodge", psychological tortures of a peculiarly unpleasant kind, as in "The Cloth of Madness" by Seabury Quinn, and the masterful use of understatement and surprise endings in stories by M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling and Robert Aickman. From underwater monsters to bloodthirsty ghouls, from the evil that lies just beneath the surface of domestic comfort and security to cannibalism twenty-first- century style, this chilling compendium of terror is calculated to send a shiver down the spine of the most hardened devotee of horror fiction.

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