Footsteps in the Dark Short Stories

Dedicated to that ominous strain of horror that sends a shiver down your spine, this selection of masterful tales gathers the weird and wonderful from a rich tradition of genre writing. The sound of a sinister tread in an apparently abandoned house; mysterious crimes committed in the dead of night; a glimpse of a monstrous apparition through the murky gloom: all find their home here. Contents: • Foreword by Dr. Emily Alder • A.J. Alan - My Adventure in Norfolk • Gertrude Atherton - Death and the Woman • E.F. Benson - Mrs. Amworth • Ambrose Bierce - The Eyes of the Panther • Rhoda Broughton - The Man with the Nose • Ramsey Campbell - The Long Way • Ralph Adams Cram - The White Villa • Dick Donovan - A Night of Horror • Amelia B. Edwards - A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest • J. Sheridan Le Fanu - The Familiar • P.G. Galalis - Knock, Knock, Wolf • Kevin J.J. Gallivan - Mrs. Courcy's Folly • Théophile Gautier - Clarimonde (transl. by Lafcadio Hearn) • Nikolai Gogol - The Viy (transl. by Claud Field) • Ali Habashi - The Blackdamp • Maria Haskins - It's Easy to Shoot a Dog • E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Mines of Falun (transl. by Major Alex. Ewing) • W.W. Jacobs - The Three Sisters • M.R. James - Canon Alberic's Scrap-book • Vernon Lee - Amour Dure • H.P. Lovecraft - The Beast in the Cave • Frederick Marryat - The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains • S.R. Masters - The Cure for Boredom • Guy de Maupassant - The Wolf • Damien Mckeating - Under Barrow Downs • John Moralee - Cold, Wet Hands • E. Nesbit - The House of Silence • Amyas Northcote - The Downs • Barry Pain - The Undying Thing • Arthur Quiller-Couch - The Haunted Dragoon • Aeryn Rudel - Bites • Saki - Gabriel-Ernest • David Schmidt - Chaneke • Cody Schroeder - Hunting the Howler • Shana Scott - Waking the Monster • May Sinclair - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • Harriet Prescott Spofford - The Conquering Will • Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • Bram Stoker - The Secret of the Growing Gold • Anna Taborska - Rusalka • Hugh Walpole - The Tarn • D.A. Watson - Restless Natives • Edith Wharton - The Lady Maid's Bell • Nemma Wollenfang - You Think You Are Safe • Anna Ziegelhof - He Will Hear Us Coming • Biographies & Sources