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    (By David G. Hartwell)

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    Author David G. Hartwell
    “Book Descriptions: This highly acclaimed anthology traces the evolution of horror, from Nathaniel Hawthorn and Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King. Adopted by colleges across the country to be used in literature courses, The Dark Descent showcases some of the finest horror fiction ever written.

    Contents:

    Pt. 1 - The Color of Evil

    The Reach / Stephen King
    Evening Primrose / John Collier
    The Ash-Tree / M. R. James
    The New Mother / Lucy Clifford
    There's a Long, Long Trail A-winding / Russell Kirk
    The Call of Cthulhu / H. P. Lovecraft
    The Summer People / Shirley Jackson
    The Whimper of Whipped Dogs / Harlan Ellison
    Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Mr. Justice Harbottle / J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    The Crowd / Ray Bradbury
    The Autopsy / Michael Shea
    John Charrington's Wedding / E. Nesbit
    Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner
    Larger Than Oneself / Robert Aickman
    Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber
    Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch
    If Damon Comes / Charles L. Grant
    Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman

    Pt. 2 - The Medusa in the Shield

    The Swords / Robert Aickman
    The Roaches / Thomas M. Disch
    Bright Segment / Theodore Sturgeon
    Dread / Clive Barker
    The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe
    The Monkey / Stephen King
    Within the Walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop
    The Rats in the Walls / H. P. Lovecraft
    Schalken the Painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner
    How Love Came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens
    Born of Man and Woman / Richard Matheson
    My Dear Emily / Joanna Russ
    You Can Go Now / Dennis Etchison
    The Rocking-Horse Winner / D. H. Lawrence
    Three Days / Tanith Lee
    Good Country People / Flannery O'Connor
    Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell
    The Jolly Corner / Henry James

    Pt. 3 - A Fabulous Formless Darkness

    Smoke Ghost / Fritz Leiber
    Seven American Nights / Gene Wolfe
    The Signal-Man / Charles Dickens
    Crouch End / Stephen King
    Night-Side / Joyce Carol Oates
    Seaton's Aunt / Walter de la Mare
    Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev
    The Repairer of Reputations / Robert W. Chambers
    The Beckoning Fair One / Oliver Onions
    What Was It? / Fitz-James O'Brien
    The Beautiful Stranger / Shirley Jackson
    The Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce
    Afterward / Edith Wharton
    The Willows / Algernon Blackwood
    The Asian Shore / Thomas M. Disch
    The Hospice / Robert Aickman
    A Little Something for Us Tempunauts / Philip K. Dick”

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