Ten twisted tales that have haunted generations of readers and writers from H. P. Lovecraft to the creators of the hit TV series True Detective Nightmare imagery courses through these stories like blood through the veins. In "The Repairer of Reputations," a Lethal Chamber stands at the edge of Washington Square Park, open to all who can no longer bear the sorrows of life. A Parisian sculptor discovers a liquid solution that can turn any living thing-a...

Collects twenty short horror stories published between 1816 and 1914 that have been overshadowed by the works of Edgar Allen Poe, including Bram Stoker's "The Squaw" and L.T. Meade's "The Woman with the Hood.".