This wide-ranging collection of twenty-four spine-tingling stories draws on the best traditions of classic horror, from powerful myths and folktales to contemporary stories of man-made terrors. With contributions by writers of the calibre of John Steinbeck, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, T. H. White, Philip K. Dick and Stephen King, this is a truly chilling anthology. The collection includes: The Kit-Bag - Algernon Blackwood; Here There Be Tygers - Stephen King; The Room in the Tower - E. F. Benson; Beyond Lies the Wub - Philip K. Dick; Feeding the Dog - Susan Price; Teddies Rule, OK? - Nicholas Fisk; Grendel the Monster - Eleanor Farjeon; A Grave Misunderstanding - Leon Garfield; Captain Murderer - Charles Dickens (from The Uncommercial Traveller); Something - Joan Aiken; The Hand - Guy de Maupassant; The Boy Next Door - Ellen Emerson White; The Murder Hole - Scottish Folktale; The Famous Five Go Pillaging - Terry Jones and Michael Palin; The Affair at 7 Rue de M - John Steinbeck; A Change of Aunts - Vivien Alcock; The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe; The Pear-Drum - English Folktale; The Dog Got Them - Philippa Pearce; Gabriel-Ernest - Saki (H. H. Munro); Nule - Jan Mark; The Dancing Partner - Jerome K. Jerome; The Ring - Margaret Bingley; and, The Troll - T. H. White.