num_pages: 304
description: Contents  1 • Introduction (The Colour of Evil) • (1987) • essay by David G. Hartwell 15 • The Reach • (1981) • shortstory by Stephen King 31 • Evening Primrose • (1940) • shortstory by John Collier 40 • The Ash-Tree • (1904) • shortstory by M. R. James 50 • The New Mother • (1882) • shortstory by Lucy Clifford 59 • There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding • (1976) • novelette by Russell Kirk 85 • The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft 108 • The Summer People • (1950) • shortstory by Shirley Jackson 118 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs • (1973) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison 132 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne 142 • Mr. Justice Harbottle • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ] 167 • The Crowd • (1943) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury 175 • The Autopsy • (1980) • novella by Michael Shea 203 • John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • shortstory by E. Nesbit 209 • Sticks • (1974) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner 225 • Larger Than Oneself • (1966) • novelette by Robert Aickman 245 • Belsen Express • (1975) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber 255 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • shortstory by Robert Bloch 268 • If Damon Comes • [Oxrun] • (1978) • shortstory by Charles L. Grant 278 • Vandy, Vandy • [John the Balladeer] • (1953) • shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
language: English
title: The Dark Descent, Vol 1: The Color of Evil
titlecomplete: The Dark Descent, Vol 1: The Color of Evil
genres: Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Anthologies, Fiction
ratings_count: 204
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers