Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur

Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur

August Derleth
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This anthology of horror stories was first published in 1944. Includes stories, by authors including H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard and others. The Horror in the Burying Ground is one of the stories in this anthology and there are eleven others all designed to shake you rigid. A taste for horror stories is a sign of imagination. It is not an acquired taste, for many of the early myths of mankind are exercises in the art of terror. There is something in all of us that responds to the ghostly and the macabre. Something so primeval, that once it is stirred you may . . . Sleep No More . . . Contents: "Count Magnus", by M. R. James "Cassius", by Henry S. Whitehead "The Occupant of the Room", by Algernon Blackwood "The Return of the Sorcerer", by Clark Ashton Smith "Johnson Looked Back", by Thomas Burke "The Hand of the O'Mecca", by Howard Wandrei "He Cometh and He Passeth By", by H. Russell Wakefield "Thus I Refute Beelzy", by John Collier "The Mannikin", by Robert Bloch "Two Black Bottles", by W. B. Talman "The House of Sounds", by M. P. Shiel "The Cane", by Carl Jacobi "The Horror in the Burying Ground", by Hazel Heald "The Kennel", by Maurice Level "The Yellow Sign", by Robert W. Chambers "The Black Stone", by Robert E. Howard "Midnight Express", by Alfred Noyes "A Gentleman From Prague", by S. Grendon "The Black Druid", by Frank Belknap Long "The Rats in the Walls", by H. P. Lovecraft
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