Moon Stricken

A CANNON BOOKS Weirdness & Horror Collection *Moon Stricken - 21 Tales of Terror and Macabre* Twenty-One Terrifying Tales. Twenty-Two Authors. A quilt-work of erotic fantasy, romanticism, curses, apparitions, insanity, supernatural visions, sin, personal repression, dark secrets, guilt, mysticism, GOTHIC mood, PULP edge, maniacs, the undead . . .and the dead. WARNING: No happy endings here… Ambrose Bierce (An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge); Bernard Capes (The Moon Stricken); Robert W. Chambers (The Yellow Sign); Charles Dickens (The Signal-Man); Elizabeth Gaskell (The Old Nurse's Story); Théophile Gautier (Clarimonde); Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper); William Hope Hodgson (The Voice in the Night); Clemence Housman (The Were-Wolf); W. W. Jacobs (The Well); Henry Kuttner (The Secret of Kralitz); H. P. Lovecraft/Zealia Bishop (The Curse of Yig); Guy de Maupassant (On the River); Edith Nesbit (In the Dark) Frank Owen (The Golden Hour of Kwoh Fan); Earl Peirce (The Homicidal Diary); Edgar Allan Poe (The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar); Victor Rowan (Four Wooden Stakes); Robert Louis Stevenson (The Body-Snatcher); Bram Stoker (The Judge’s House); H. G. Wells (The Red Room [The Ghost of Fear]).


Genre: Horror