Edith Nesbit

H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James

Clark Ashton Smith

Mary Elizabeth Counselman

Donald Wandrei

H. T. W. Bousfield

C. P. Howard

L. A. Lewis

A second collection of classic works concerning items that harbour sinister secrets and unusual powers.

Contents:

"The Uncommon Prayer-Book" by M. R. James (London Mercury 1925)

Eight unusual copies of the Book of Common Prayer.

"The Green Flame" by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales 1930)

The tale of a strange jewel.

"The Disinterment of Venus" by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales 1934)

A curious statue unearthed in the grounds of a monastery.

"The Man Who Made Faces" by C. P. Howard (HorrorBabble 2024)

The tale of a man haunted by a past mistake.

"The God with Four Arms" by H. T. W. Bousfield (1939)

A man takes his frustrations out on a rare bronze idol.

"The Ebony Frame" by Edith Nesbit (Longman's 1891)

A beautiful and curiously carved picture frame.

"The Meerschaum Pipe" by L. A. Lewis (Tales of the Grotesque 1934)

A series of strange dreams and mysterious murders.

"The Black Stone Statue" by M. E. Counselman (Weird Tales 1937)

The story of a weird deception practised on the world by an obscure artist.

"Out of the Aeons" by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales 1935)

A Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island.

"The Mezzotint" by M. R. James (Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary 1904)

A strange engraving, with even stranger properties.

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