The editors of the Modern Library believe that this is the most comprehensive and hair-raising collection of ghost stories and tales of terror ever to be assembled in a single volume. In its more than 1,000 pages there are fifty-two complete stories, each a masterpiece of its kind. The famous stand-bys are all here, and in addition there are a score of others that will be startlingly new to the average addict. The compilers ransacked old libraries and little-known collections to find these macabre tales, over half of which have rarely, if ever, been included in any similar anthology. They offer also an illuminating introduction to this world of shadows and notes for all the stories in the volume. The authors represented are Poe, Bierce, Machen, Hemingway, de la mare, Kipling, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Blackwood, Wells, Benson, Onions, Le Fanu, Dinesen, Coppard, Woollcott, Saki, Sayers, Faulkner, and many others equally distinguished.