Tales to murder sleep . . . a hand-picked collection of horrifying tales whose evil images will make your leaden eyes afraid to close their slumbrous lids . . .

Fifteen stories of subtle frightfulness, malign insanity, gruesome infamy, startling terror.

These superb stories by such masters as Geoffrey Household, Philip Macdonald and William Sansom, together with famous classics from Edgar Allen Poe, H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie and Bram Stoker, combine in bringing you new iniquities to torture the mind with their lingering passions.