The mummy, the werewolf, the devil and other hideous and otherworldly forces and entities star in the stories anthologized here. Gogol, Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats are some of the authors of these stories, who were inspired by 19th-century legends, traditions and myths or invented archetypal forms of evil that were subsequently established in Western art, especially in literature and film.
The reader only have to make themselves comfortable and become immersed in these bizarre stories. Surely, they will not want to set the book aside before finishing it, so they should take measures beforehand, especially if they are used to reading around midnight…
The collection includes the short stories “St. John’s Eve” by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, “The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains” by Fredrik Marryat, “Lot No. 249” by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Butler Yeats’ “The Magi”, Francis Marion Crawford’s The Dead Smile”, William Wymarck Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw” and Montague Rhodes James “Count Magnus”.
