The second volume in the acclaimed horror anthology series, edited by Thomas Mastakouris, is a kaleidoscope through which readers can glimpse different eras, different cultures, and different ways of confronting life and death.
Horror stories are as old as humanity itself. Written in cheap pamphlets in London or in elaborate volumes in Germany; told around the fireplace of a farmhouse in the Italian countryside or in a bustling market in Damascus; heard in an inn in imperial China, in an alleyway in Mexico City, or in a tavern somewhere in the Cyclades — the stories gathered in this book form a kaleidoscope through which modern readers may peer, through small and fleeting windows, into other times, other cultures, and other ways of understanding life and death.
