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The Dark Descent

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

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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 / 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 / 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 / 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.

Genres

  • Horror tales
  • American Horror tales
  • English Horror tales
  • short stories
  • horror
  • inquests
  • coroners
  • mountain lions
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    About the authors

    • John Collier

      3.75

      4 ratings · 90 works

    • Robert Aickman

      3.38

      8 ratings · 69 works

    • Dennis Etchison

      1943 - 2019

      3.50

      4 ratings · 58 works

    • Joanna Russ

      22 February 1937 - 29 April 2011

      3.90

      10 ratings · 54 works

    • Oliver Onions

      13 November 1873 - 9 April 1961

      3.00

      1 ratings · 55 works

    • Montague Rhodes James

      1 Aug 1862 - 12 Jun 1936

      4.17

      18 ratings · 272 works

    • Karl Edward Wagner

      1945 - 1994

      3.50

      8 ratings · 90 works

    • Shirley Jackson

      14 Dec 1916 - 8 Aug 1965

      3.98

      183 ratings · 180 works

    • Philip K. Dick

      16 December 1928 - 2 March 1982

      3.79

      598 ratings · 690 works

    • David G. Hartwell

      1941-07-10 - 2016-01-20

      3.57

      7 ratings · 108 works

    • Charles L. Grant

      2.80

      5 ratings · 133 works

    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

      1860 - 1935

      3.88

      72 ratings · 822 works

    • William Faulkner

      25 September 1897 - 6 July 1962

      3.77

      93 ratings · 877 works

    • Fritz Leiber

      24 Dec 1910 - 5 Sep 1992

      3.60

      62 ratings · 319 works

    • Sheridan Le Fanu

      28 Aug 1814 - 7 Feb 1873

      3.80

      88 ratings · 995 works

    • Robert Smythe Hichens

      1864 - 1950

      3.80

      5 ratings · 286 works

    • H.P. Lovecraft

      20 August 1890 - 15 March 1937

      3.96

      220 ratings · 2523 works

    • Russell Kirk

      19 October 1918 - April 1994

      3.00

      1 ratings · 57 works

    • Manly Wade Wellman

      21 May 1903 - 5 April 1986

      4.43

      7 ratings · 130 works

    • Richard Matheson

      20 February 1926 - 23 June 2013

      3.93

      114 ratings · 290 works

    • Fitz-James O'Brien

      1828 - 1862

      4.50

      2 ratings · 34 works

    • Walter De la Mare

      1873 - 1956

      3.91

      11 ratings · 284 works

    • Michael Shea

      born 1946

      3.00

      1 ratings · 45 works

    • Stephen King

      born 21 September 1947

      4.03

      4064 ratings · 585 works

    • Edith Nesbit

      15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924

      3.48

      85 ratings · 260 works

    • Algernon Blackwood

      14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951

      4.04

      27 ratings · 554 works

    • Clive Barker

      born 5 Oct 1952

      3.98

      102 ratings · 207 works

    • Joyce Carol Oates

      born 1938

      3.65

      63 ratings · 886 works

    • Ramsey Campbell

      born 4 January 1946

      3.50

      22 ratings · 224 works

    • Flannery O'Connor

      March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964

      3.79

      39 ratings · 82 works

    • Tanith Lee

      19 September 1947 - 24 May 2015

      4.12

      59 ratings · 362 works

    • Ambrose Bierce

      1842 - 1914?

      3.94

      137 ratings · 1088 works

    • D. H. Lawrence

      1885 - 1930

      3.60

      86 ratings · 3783 works

    • Theodore Sturgeon

      26 February 1918 - 8 May 1985

      3.95

      22 ratings · 253 works

    • Nathaniel Hawthorne

      4 July 1804 - 19 May 1864

      3.59

      228 ratings · 1885 works

    • Harlan Ellison

      27 May 1934 - 27 June 2018

      3.88

      74 ratings · 464 works

    • Robert Bloch

      5 April 1917 - 23 September 1994

      4.09

      22 ratings · 227 works

    • Gene Wolfe

      7 May 1931 - 14 April 2019

      3.94

      139 ratings · 146 works

    • Thomas M. Disch

      2 February 1940 - 4 July 2008

      4.00

      9 ratings · 168 works

    • Charles Dickens

      7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870

      3.84

      682 ratings · 5464 works

    • Edith Wharton

      24 January 1862 - 11 August 1937

      3.74

      137 ratings · 1898 works

    • Henry James

      15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916

      3.68

      136 ratings · 5088 works

    • Edgar Allan Poe

      19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

      4.14

      390 ratings · 4027 works

    • Ray Bradbury

      22 August 1920 - 5 June 2012

      4.03

      766 ratings · 786 works

    • Lucy Clifford

      3.00

      1 ratings · 14 works

    • Robert Chambers

      born 1905

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      0 ratings · 9 works

    • Ivan Turguenev

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      0 ratings · 6 works

    Editions

    • Edition cover

      First printing, BOMC edition

      TOR

      1987

    • Edition cover

      1st printing, BOMC edition

      TOR

      1987

    • Edition cover

      First printing

      Tor

      1987-10

    • Edition cover

      Grafton

      1991

    • Edition cover

      T. Doherty Associates, [Distributed by St. Martin's Press]

      1987

    • Edition cover

      printing (21)

      Tor

      /1993

    • Edition cover

      1st Tor trade pbk. ed.

      Tor, Tor Books

      1997

    • Edition cover

      Grafton, HarperCollins Publishers, Brand: Grafton

      September 19, 1990

    • Edition cover

      GraftonBooks

      1992

    • Edition cover

      GraftonBooks

      1991

    • Edition cover

      Grafton

      September 19, 1990

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      Grafton

      November 8, 1990