Classic Horror Stories

A spine-chilling anthology that celebrates the thrilling pleasure and rich literary legacy of horror writing.

From the sinister imagination of Edgar Allan Poe to the supernatural suspense of H. G. Wells, this collection explores a range of eerie experiences; there are hauntings, monsters and plenty of often inexplicable and always terrifying dramas.

The classic masters of the genre are here; in Algernon Blackwood’s deeply unnerving ’The Occupant in the Room’ a hotel room hides a terrifying secret. In Guy de Maupassant’s ’Vendetta’, a mother is bent on terrible revenge and in ’The Treasure of Abbot Thomas’ M. R. James turns a treasure hunt into a nightmare.

David Stuart Davies is the prolific author of numerous novels, plays and non-fiction books, and he has contributed to many short story anthologies. An expert on Sherlock Holmes, he’s an invested member of the Baker Street Irregulars and a member of The Detection Club. For twenty years he was the editor of the Crime Writers’ Association’s monthly publication Red Herrings. He has a new series of Golden Age mysteries featuring private detective Rupert Wilde, the first of which is The Dead of Winter.