This new edition, which reprints the unabridged text of the 1933 first edition and includes a new introduction by John Howard, will allow a new generation of readers to discover an unjustly forgotten master of the eerie and macabre.

'Excellently written and displaying a wide range of interests ... Mr. Walpole knows well how to make the flesh creep.' - Sydney Morning Herald

'There are sixteen stories in Walpole's collection, and they all reach a high degree of merit; all are marked by the distinguished literary quality one is sure to find in his work.' - New York Times

'A macabre master whose understanding of the night side of human experience makes him indispensable fire-side reading.' - Flesh and Blood Magazine