![]() ![]() Some might say that one is the best in this collection! The Cram one was a really effective horror story-"The Dead Valley," published in 1895. One of them was Dorothy Baker and her story,"The Gorgon's Head," was one I had read many years ago, in the 70s-and, amazingly enough, I remembered it. Included were three authors who were obscure (to me, anyway). ![]() It's basically an adventure story, about an expedition into the mountains of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to find the "missing-link." It becomes a story of increasing terror. His story in this collection, titled "That Receding Brow," was published in "All-Story Weekly" in 1919-and was my favorite of all of the ten tales in the book. ![]() But when he was turning out stories for the pulp magazines, he wrote fantasy, science fiction, and supernatural stories. There was a story by Max Brand (Frederick Faust), who is today best-known for his Western stories. Interestingly, the Bloch story, "The Skeleton in the Closet," was an enjoyable humorous story, not at all what I was expecting from the author of "Psycho.". With the exception of the Howard story, "The Dead Remember," I thought that I hadn't read any of the stories included in the book by those authors before. Howard, Arthur Conan Doyle, August Derleth, and Robert Bloch. I was actually surprised by how good this collection of horror stories was! I came across this old paperback published in 1972 (and all of 60 cents back then!) and thought I'd read it because it had stories by so many good authors-Ray Bradbury, H.P. ![]()
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