This chilling collection of stories was written or inspired by the Master of Horror. In Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos , a pantheon of horror and fantasy's finest authors pays tribute tribute to the master with this blood-curdling collection.

Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary.

Joey, Dawson, and the gang go to an old plantation outside New Orleans for a masquerade ball. Pacey begins having frightening visions from the past, and is convinced he's losing his mind. Now as more strange occurrences manifest, the friends must solve a mystery from the Civil War.

Sweet Friday Island, an uninhabitated island off the coast of Baja, California, seems to be the perfect vacation spot. Peg and her father have prepared for their vacation for months. However, it is not long before the island becomes a terrifying death trap in this riveting tale of survival by the acclaimed author of The Cay.

In this richly illustrated volume-- masterfully compiled from the BBC television miniseries by Stephen Jones-- Clive Barker, the modern master of horror, takes you on a terrifyingly intimate tour of his personal sources and secrets. Here is the unspeakable stuff of which Barker's vision was formed: a wonderfully eclectic and wide-ranging collect...

This unique work of popular criticism of the stories and characters of author Stephen King embraces and explains the entire body of King's work, and reveals his creative processes. The authors also demonstrate King's impact on popular culture, and includes a chronology of the author's life and career. From the Publisher The stories of Stephen Ki...

The popular success of Stephen King's novels is, of course, a fact beyond dispute. Perhaps because of his popularity, however, he has been denigrated or ignored by most literary critics and scholars. A previous volume in Twayne's United States Authors Series, Joseph Reino's Stephen King: The First Decade, Carrie to Pet Sematary (1988) redressed ...

Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an...

It's almost midnight. Cat's on the bed, facedown and naked. She's Sam's former girlfriend, the only woman he's ever loved. Sam's in the closet, with a hammer in one hand and a wooden stake in the other. Together they wait as the clock ticks down because the vampire is coming. If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat. --Stephen King.