FROM THE PUBLISHER

Horror can come at any moment, from any direction, and in any form: even the most seemingly innocent person or object can suddenly turn into a being or device that will terrify. Many of our finest writers have been fascinated with horro, and this unique collection gives one hundred examples of what the masters of the short story can do with our minds and nerves. Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E.F. Benson, H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr and many others are represented in 100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories, a very special book that the editor Al Sarrantonio calls "one hundred carnival rides of terror."