The Dark descent
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 ...
Details
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 1,028 pages
- Hardcover 4.3/5
- Genres
Classics Fantasy Science Fiction
- Authors
David G. Hartwell Stephen King John Collier M. R. James Lucy Clifford Russell Kirk H. P. Lovecraft Shirley Jackson Harlan Ellison Nathaniel Hawthorne Ray Bradbury Michael Shea Edith Nesbit Karl Edward Wagner Robert Aickman Fritz Leiber Robert Bloch Charles L. Grant Manly Wade Wellman Disch, Thomas M. Theodore Sturgeon Clive Barker Edgar Allan Poe Charlotte Perkins Gilman William Faulkner Robert Hichens Richard Matheson Joanna Russ Dennis Etchison D.H. Lawrence Tanith Lee Ramsey Campbell Henry James Jr. Gene Wolfe Charles Dickens Joyce Carol Oates Walter De la Mare Ivan Turguenev Robert Chambers Oliver Onions Fitz-James O'Brien Philip K. Dick Thomas M. Disch Robert W. Chambers J. Sheridan Le Fanu Ambrose Bierce Edith Wharton Algernon Blackwood Flannery O’Connor
- Fiction
- 1
- Original title
- The Dark Descent
- Original language
- English