Twenty-seven tales of horror and the fantastic from some of speculative fiction's leading authors, including: Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, H. G. Wells, Hume Nisbett, J. R. R. Tolkien, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, Artrhur Conan Doyle, Robert Bloch, Mark Twain, Elizabeth Gaskell, E. M. Forster, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde.