Classic anthology of stories picked by Karloff and which in his words include "fables, truly nightmarish tales, and an outright shocker or two!" Very Scarey Book. Huge collection of 72 weird, horror, mystery tales and one of the best such collections ever done. General Introduction and very good notes on each story and author by Karloff. Authors range from classic authors (e.g. J. Conrad, R. Browning, N. Gogol, Baudelaire, Tennyson, Turgenev) to the great horror/supernatural authors and many stories not commonly reprinted. Contains: Perchance to Dream [short fiction] by Michael Joyce; Where the Tides Ebb and Flow [short story] by Lord Dunsany; Ulalume [poem] by Edgar Allan Poe.
Other authors: Ambrose Bierce (Contributor), Algernon Blackwood (Contributor), John Buchan (Contributor), A.M. Burrage (Contributor), John Collier (Contributor), Joseph Conrad (Contributor), Arthur Conan Doyle (Contributor), Lord Dunsany (Contributor), W.W. Jacobs (Contributor), H.P. Lovecraft (Contributor), W. Somerset Maugham (Contributor), Guy de Maupassant (Contributor), Oliver Onions (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Clark Ashton Smith (Contributor), Alfred Tennyson (Contributor), Hugh Walpole (Contributor), Cornell Woolrich (Contributor), W.B. Yeats (Contributor)