Weird Tales

This anthology collects short stories of the uncanny, sitting between ghost fiction and cosmic horror. Typical pieces involve a picture, room, or landscape that will not stay ordinary, an accursed book or rite, or an entity that cannot be named in daylight terms. Writers range from nineteenth-century originators of weird fiction to later authors of psychological and cosmic tales. The stories are independent, with no shared narrator and no continuous plot. Settings include lonely houses, rivers, and cities that open onto something older than human law. The book is a survey of the weird tale, not a history of the pulp magazine of that name.

Three-quarter bound in purple cloth, green paper front cover printed and blocked in black and purple with a picture. Green endpapers printed with an illustration. Plain slipcase.