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The Dark Descent (1990)

The Dark Descent (1990)

Horror Short Stories

Charles Dickens, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Tanith Lee, John Collier, Ambrose Bierce, Dennis Etchison, Fitz-James O'Brien, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Russell Kirk, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Henry James, Shirley Jackson, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Ivan Turguenev, Flannery O'Connor, D. H. Lawrence, Charles L. Grant, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Karl Edward Wagner, Walter De la Mare, Michael Shea, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Aickman, Lucy Clifford, Edith Nesbit, Thomas M. Disch, Manly Wade Wellman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, David G. Hartwell, Robert Bloch, Joanna Russ, Montague Rhodes James, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Chambers, Fritz Leiber, Oliver Onions, Robert Smythe Hichens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Clive Barker

Year: 1990
Authors: Charles Dickens, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Tanith Lee, John Collier, Ambrose Bierce, Dennis Etchison, Fitz-James O'Brien, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Russell Kirk, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Henry James, Shirley Jackson, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Ivan Turguenev, Flannery O'Connor, D. H. Lawrence, Charles L. Grant, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Karl Edward Wagner, Walter De la Mare, Michael Shea, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Aickman, Lucy Clifford, Edith Nesbit, Thomas M. Disch, Manly Wade Wellman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Edith Wharton, David G. Hartwell, Robert Bloch, Joanna Russ, Montague Rhodes James, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Chambers, Fritz Leiber, Oliver Onions, Robert Smythe Hichens, Sheridan Le Fanu, Clive Barker
Print type: BOOK

Description:

pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman -- pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon -- Dread / Clive Barker -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey / Stephen King -- Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- My dear Emily / Joanna Russ -- You can go now / Dennis Etchison -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Three days / Tanith Lee -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- [Crouch End](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650699W/Crouch_End) / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- [The damned thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.