Laird Barron's second collection brings together eight tales of terror, two of which have never before been published.

Pure, hundred-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high. Here you will find twenty of his very best stories and essays, including the four-part 'Scenes from the Real World," an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, that he created for NBC; "Tales from the Mountains of Madness"; and his hilariously brutal reportage on the three most important things in life, sex, violence, and labor relations. With an absolutely killer...

"A college student's mother is dying in a Maine hospital. When he hitches a ride to see her, the driver is not who he appears to be [and] the journey [soon] veers off into a dark landscape"--container.

Gothic fiction by more than 40 known and unknown writers. They range from William Sansom's A Woman Seldom Found, on an encounter in Rome between a man and a woman, to Paul Bowle's Allal, on an Arab boy who switches bodies with a snake.

"From R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes ten new stories that are sure to send a shiver down your spine. Two kids embark on a field trip to the zoo ... and stumble upon a creature they never expected to meet. A boy makes a machine that puts kids in charge ... but at what cost? A child is sure his new house is haunted ... but is it just in his head? And each story comes with a personal introduction from Stine himself. Laced with...

"A collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales"--Front flap.