Baffling Beasts

Fifteen more horror stories about strange beings and behaviours that defy conventional definitions. Contents: The Crib of Hell by Arthur Pendragon "He could never erase from his memory the evil face of the child of horror..." Clay by C. Hall Thompson "Each dark, downward pathway of the mind is an adventure, dangerous, deadly..." The Curse of Yig by H. P. Lovecraft and Zelia Bishop "A couple become aware of a chilling local legend." Rats by M. R. James "The mystery surrounding a locked room in an isolated inn." The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake by Clark Ashton Smith "The terror that lurked in Avilton's library." The Mist-Monster by Granville S. Hoss "A weird mist billowed up from the cave-and horrible was the thing that it did." The Dunstable Horror by Arthur Pendragon "A gothic, Lovecraftian tale, of ancient evil and ghastly retribution." Tzo-Lin's Nightingales by Ben Belitt "A scene of incredible madness and weird horror." The Worm by David H. Keller "The floor disappeared into the Thing's maw." Whispers by Robert S. Carr "In the festering swamps of Taggardsville, something unseen stirs in the night." Winged Death by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald "A mysterious death, a maddened diary, and an unholy insect." The Cave of Spiders by William R. Hickey "An expedition into the haunted heights of the Peruvian Andes." Death in Twenty Minutes by Charles Henry Mackintosh "A death's-head spider plot." The Cat-Woman by Mary Elizabeth Counselman "An unusual case of anthropomorphism." The Bottomless Pool by Ralph Milne Farley "A strange black pool at the heart of a festering swamp."

Fifteen horror stories about strange beings and behaviours that defy conventional definitions. Contents: Warning Wings by Arlton Eadie (Weird Tales, 1929) A seemingly insignificant white moth. Mother of Toads by Clark Ashton Smith (WT, 1938) An unusual witch. The Destroying Horde by Donald Wandrei (WT, 1935) The first BLOB story? Caterpillars by E. F. Benson (The Room in the Tower, 1912) Terrible things in an Italian villa. The Urbanite by Ewen Whyte (WT, 1950) The great city is never still. Rats by F. A. M. Webster (At Dead of Night, 1931) A plague of rats. The Malignant Invader by F. B. Long (WT, 1932) A creature from the bowels of the earth. The Horror in the Museum by H. P. Lovecraft (WT, 1933) A private wax museum that specialises in the grotesque. My Father, the Cat by H. Slesar (Fantastic Universe, 1957) A most unusual cat. The Seeking Thing by Janet Hirsch (Magazine of Horror, 1964) Something in the middle of the road. They by R. B. Johnson (WT, 1936) They dwell in Dead Man's Canyon. The Hyena by Robert E. Howard (WT, 1928) A man with an unusual ability. Sredni Vashtar by Saki (The Chronicles of Clovis, 1911) A secret in the garden shed. Demons of the Film Colony by Theodore LeBerthon (WT, 1932) A tale of 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein'. A:B:O. by Walter de la Mare (Cornhill, 1896) The excavation of a metallic chest.