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An illustrated collection of eighteen short tales of terror, including "The Screaming Skeleton, " "The Doll Maker, " "Sarah's Last Wish, " and "Deadly Dreams.

Contains thirteen stories of ghosts, vampires, witches, werewolves, and other terrifying creatures.

Collects sixteen tales, and one excerpt, of work by horror master Edgar Allan Poe, with twenty essays by authors such as Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Jan Burke, and Nelson DeMille that cover how Poe inspired their own work or won their admiration.

Presents four scary stories involving a spooky lighthouse, a phantom mask, a haunted house, and a mysterious photograph.

A collection of eighteen short stories, dramatizing the terrors and pressures of the urban landscape.

Contains seven scary sleepover stories about spiders, grasping toilets, playground revenge, and other horrors.

A collection of spooky short stories, including "It Waits, " "The Family Honor, " "Flesh and Blood, " and "Horror in the Center Ring.

Danielle is unable to wake up her brother after hypnotizing him as a joke; Luke must defeat the evil Fate Master living in his locker or pass the curse on to his best friend; and Maggie's life turns nightmarish after her palm is read at a carnival.

A critical appraisal of Rice's novels, placing her in the tradition of the genre, and her examination of evil, death, sexuality, and the unconscious.

Contains four stories by H. P. Lovecraft, including his "At the Mountains of Madness," in which Dryer and Danforth encounter a strange alien civilization when they set out to explore the Antarctic continent, and get sent to space as Earth's ambassadors.

Examines all of the works of fiction by Stephen King and the ways in which his plots, characters, conflicts, and themes are intertwined.

Contains a selection of critical commentary on the horror fiction, films and video adaptations of Stephen King.

Presents a collection of brief stories featuring strange and frightening characters and events.

Contains fifteen stories by such authors as Rex Miller, Richard Laymon, and Brian Hodge.

Reference guide to the world, history, and adventures of the characters from Anne Rice's five vampire novels, with 1,200 entries, arranged alphabetically, offering interpretation of the events, names and places, symbols, and themes, including photographs, maps, drawings, and a timeline.