Masters of the Macabre

An anthology of horror and suspense tales arranged chronologically from early Gothic writing characterized by Mary Shelley to detective stories of today by Ellery Queen and Dorothy Sayers.

Clanking armor, magic helmets, haunted castles and corridors, great groans and magic potions recall the era of the original gothic romantic tales of the eighteenth century. From these supernatural roots spring the varied and always popular stories of mystery, horror, and detection by the masters of the literary arts of sensationalism and terror. Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis have selected seventeen chilling examples of short gothic, detective, ghost, sus-pense, and science fiction masterpieces. There is an originally unpublished section of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the exciting and peculiar horror of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the medical mysteries of L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, the subtle ghosts of Ambrose Bierce, the psychological suspense of Robert Lewis Stevenson, the anti-heroes of Graham Greene, the weird phantasmagoria of horror of H. P. Lovecraft, and the many murderous methods of Dorothy L. Sayers. Other authors included are Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Wilkie Collins, Sheridan LeFanu, Amelia B. Edwards, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Fitz-James O'Brien. These MASTERS OF THE MACABRE use the power of fear to create some of the most haunting moments ever recorded on paper.