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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 written--from 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.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell
• The Reach - (1981) - short story by Stephen King
• Evening Primrose - (1940) - short story by John Collier
• The Ash-Tree - (1904) - short story by M. R. James
• The New Mother - (1882) - short story by Lucy Clifford
• There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding - (1976) - novelette by Russell Kirk
• The Call of Cthulhu - (1928) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Summer People - (1950) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973) - short story by Harlan Ellison
• Young Goodman Brown - (1835) - short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mr. Justice Harbottle - (1872) - novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Crowd - (1943) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Autopsy - (1980) - novella by Michael Shea
• John Charrington's Wedding - (1891) - short story by E. Nesbit
• Sticks - (1974) - novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• Larger Than Oneself - (1966) - novelette by Robert Aickman
• Belsen Express - (1975) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper - (1943) - short story by Robert Bloch
• If Damon Comes - (1978) - short story by Charles L. Grant
• Vandy, Vandy - (1953) - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• The Swords - (1969) - novelette by Robert Aickman
• The Roaches - (1965) - short story by Thomas M. Disch
• Bright Segment - (1955) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Dread - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• The Fall of the House of Usher - (1839) - novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Monkey - (1980) - novelette by Stephen King
• Within the Walls of Tyre - (1978) - novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• Schalken the Painter - (1851) - short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Yellow Wallpaper - (1892) - novelette by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• A Rose for Emily - (1930) - short story by William Faulkner
• How Love Came to Professor Guildea - (1897) - novella by Robert Hichens
• Born of Man and Woman - (1950) - short story by Richard Matheson
• My Dear Emily - (1962) - short story by Joanna Russ
• You Can Go Now - (1980) - short story by Dennis Etchison
• The Rocking-Horse Winner - (1926) - short story by D. H. Lawrence
• Three Days - (1984) - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Good Country People - (1955) - short story by Flannery O'Connor
• Mackintosh Willy - (1979) - short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Jolly Corner - (1908) - novelette by Henry James
• Smoke Ghost - (1941) - short story by Fritz Leiber
• Seven American Nights - (1978) - novella by Gene Wolfe
• The Signalman - (1866) - short story by Charles Dickens
• Crouch End - (1980) - novelette by Stephen King
• Night-Side - (1977) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• Seaton's Aunt - (1922) - novelette by Walter de la Mare
• Clara Militch - (1893) - novelette by Ivan Turgenev
• The Repairer of Reputations - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• The Beckoning Fair One - (1911) - novella by Oliver Onions
• What Was It? - (1859) - short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• The Beautiful Stranger - (1968) - short story by Shirley Jackson
• The Damned Thing - (1893) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Afterward - (1910) - novelette by Edith Wharton
• The Willows - (1907) - novella by Algernon Blackwood
• The Asian Shore - (1970) - novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• The Hospice - (1975) - novelette by Robert Aickman
• A Little Something for Us Tempunauts - (1974) - novelette by Philip K. Dick

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