Black hardback binding with white title and graveyard on the front board. All edges gilt.

• This chilling collection of scary stories will keep you awake for hours! Psychological horrors, disturbing dramas, and gruesome ghosts compose this compendium of confessions made in the dead of night. From vampires and a monkey paw to an unstoppable heart and haunting apparitions, anecdotes of supernatural terror will have you turning pages long past the witching hour. Allow famous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Henry James, Washington Irving, and more to prey upon your emotions and peace of mind at slumber parties and camping trips, or anytime you want to end the night with a delightful fright!

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Ernest Hibert received his doctorate in English Language and Literature from Oxford University in 2000. He has served as editor for the Oxford Quarterly, Random House’s magazine Bold Type, and the Contemporary Poetry Review. His writing has appeared in American Scholar, The New Republic, The New Criterion, London Magazine, Yale Review, and many other publications. He is an antiquarian bookseller with the firm Bauman Rare Books, where he has had the pleasure of placing many Charles Dickens first editions into private and public collections. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.

REVIEW: Not all the stories in this book are going to leave you in a state of fear such as you’d expect a ‘classic tale of horror’ to do. Some are merely suspenseful or mysterious, but that is not to say I didn’t find any stories to be genuinely hair-raising. Virtually all of the stories contained are well-regarded works by well-regarded writers. Virtually all of them succeed in creating an atmosphere. How scared you’ll be will depend entirely on your own disposition and how receptive you are to language and situations that can at times feel a little dated, and that’s no surprise owing to the age of pretty much every tale within. Make no mistake, the stories in here are a choice selection of fiction from the mid-modern era, and you are in for a treat if not already familiar to the material.

The makers of this book, Canterbury Press, have done a sterling job not only with selecting the content, but also with its presentation. The cover is a work of art, featuring an embossed graveyard scene, replete with bats, a shining moon, grotesque trees, horrible headstones, and an imposing rendition of the book title in a large dripping font. It all combines to a superb effect, such that I actually like to pick it up before reading, just to look at the cover, as staring at the scene puts me into the mood for reading the content.