14 spellbinding tales, including The Sin Eater, by Fiona McLeod, The Eye Above the Mantel, by Frank Belknap Long, as well as renowned works by R H Barlow, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow and eight other masters of the genre.

From the masters of the genre, 14 spellbinding tales written between 1880 and 1940, including The Sin Eater, by Fiona McLeod, a wild Celtic fantasy about a grotesque ritual; The Eye Above the Mantel, by Frank Belknap Long, a sonorous prose-poem demonstrating the effects of verbal witchery; as well as renowned works by Ambrose Bierce, R H Barlow, Lord Dunsany, Ralph Adams Cram, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, W C Morrow and five other writers skilled in transporting devotees of the supernatural to terrifying realms of the unknown.