Authors: David G. Hartwell, Ray Bradbury, John Collier
ISBN-13: 9780312862176, ISBN-10: 0312862172
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: REV
David G. Hartwell, called "an editor extraordinaire" by Publishers Weekly, is one of science fiction's most experienced and influential editors. As an editor with Berkley Books, Pocket Books, William Morrow, and Tor Books, he has worked with many of the field's best authors and edited many award-winning works. He is the author of Age of Wonders, a nonfiction study of the science fiction field. Among his many anthologies are the bestselling World Treasury of Science Fiction and the World Fantasy Award winner The Dark Descent. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, a winner of the Eaton Award, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award twenty-four times.
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 40 books and has become one of the world's most successful writers. Stephen lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. They are regular contributors to a number of charities including many libraries and have been honored locally for their philanthropic activities.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. Her bestselling novels include We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde.
In The Dark Descent, hailed as one of the most important anthologies ever to examine horror fiction, editor David G. Hartwell traces the complex history of horror in literature back to the earliest short stories. The Dark Descent, which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, showcases the finest of these ever writtenfrom the time-honored classics of Edgar Allan Poe, D.H. Lawrence, and Edith Wharton to the contemporary writing of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Ray Bradbury.
Introduction | 1 | |
The Reach | 15 | |
Evening Primrose | 31 | |
The Ash-Tree | 40 | |
The New Mother | 50 | |
There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding | 59 | |
The Call of Cthulhu | 85 | |
The Summer People | 108 | |
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs | 118 | |
Young Goodman Brown | 132 | |
Mr. Justice Harbottle | 142 | |
The Crowd | 167 | |
The Autopsy | 175 | |
John Charrington's Wedding | 203 | |
Sticks | 209 | |
Larger Than Oneself | 225 | |
Belsen Express | 245 | |
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper | 255 | |
If Damon Comes | 268 | |
Vandy, Vandy | 278 | |
The Swords | 291 | |
The Roaches | 312 | |
Bright Segment | 321 | |
Dread | 339 | |
The Fall of the House of Usher | 368 | |
The Monkey | 382 | |
Within the Walls of Tyre | 410 | |
The Rats in the Walls | 431 | |
Schalken the Painter | 445 | |
The Yellow Wallpaper | 460 | |
A Rose for Emily | 472 | |
How Love Came to Professor Guildea | 480 | |
Born of Man and Woman | 513 | |
My Dear Emily | 516 | |
You Can Go Now | 532 | |
The Rocking-horse Winner | 541 | |
Three Days | 553 | |
Good Country People | 576 | |
Mackintosh Willy | 591 | |
The Jolly Corner | 602 | |
Smoke Ghost | 629 | |
Seven American Nights | 641 | |
The Signal-Man | 680 | |
Crouch End | 690 | |
Night-Side | 712 | |
Seaton's Aunt | 731 | |
Clara Militch | 753 | |
The Repairer of Reputations | 793 | |
The Beckoning Fair One | 817 | |
What Was It? | 864 | |
The Beautiful Stranger | 874 | |
The Damned Thing | 880 | |
Afterward | 887 | |
The Willos | 909 | |
The Asian Shore | 944 | |
The Hospice | 970 | |
A Little Something for Us Tempunauts | 995 |