The Dark descent
By: edited by David G. Hartwell.
Contributors: Hartwell, David G.
Edition: 1st Tor trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Tor; Tor Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1011
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; Horror tales, English.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King; title: Evening primrose / John Collier; title: The ash-tree / M. R. James; title: The new mother / Lucy Clifford; title: There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk; title: The call of Cthulhu / H. P. Lovecraft; title: The summer people / Shirley Jackson; title: The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Mr. Justice Harbottle; title: J. Sheridan Le Fanu; title: The crowd / Ray Bradbury; title: The autopsy / Michael Shea; title: John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit; title: Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner; title: Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman; title: Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber; title: Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch; title: If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant; title: Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman; title: pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman; title: The roaches / Thomas M. Disch; title: Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon; title: Dread / Clive Barker; title: The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allen Poe; title: The monkey / Stephen King; title: Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop; title: The rats in the walls / H. P. Lovecraft; title: Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu; title: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: A rose for Emily / William Faulkner; title: How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens; title: Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson; title: My dear Emily / Joanna Russ; title: You can go now / Dennis Etchison; title: The rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence; title: Three days / Tanith Lee; title: Good country people / Flannery O'Connor; title: Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell; title: The jolly corner / Henry James; title: pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber; title: Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe; title: The signal-man / Charles Dickens; title: Crouch End / Stephen King; title: Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates; title: Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare; title: Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev; title: The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers; title: The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions; title: What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien; title: The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson; title: The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce; title: Afterward / Edith Wharton; title: The willows / Algernon Blackwood; title: The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch; title: The hospice / Robert Aickman; title: A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.