Phantoms and Fiends

British Fantasy Award nominee 2001.

Edited by Stephen Jones.

This latest volume from 'Britain's Prince of chill' contains twenty-one never-before-collected stories of horror, science fiction and the supernatural from the past four decades, including two brand-new tales published here for the first time.

In these masterful tales of horror and humour you will discover such macabre and menacing characters as a trio of weird sisters who refuse to let the dead rest in peace; a stranded couple who encounter the last of Cornwall's legendary giants; a murderous husband whose wife refuses to die; a young man who is haunted by his ghostly doppleganger; a woman who is pursued by a lonely phantom; a mad genius who creates a terrifying new form of life; a man tormented by both his dead wife and his new lover, and an isolated family who feed upon human flesh.

With an original foreword by best-selling X-Files novelist Charles Grant and an afterword by the author himself, this is a book that is guaranteed to raise a shudder and a shive amongst the most hardened horror fan.

Contents:

• Foreword: Finding the Signal by Charles Grant
• Moving Day
• She Walks on Dry Land
• The Bodmin Terror
• A Chill to the Sunlight
• The Catomado
• Regression
• Matthew and Luke
• Growth
• Born This Night
• The Sad Ghost
• The Thing
• The Underground
• Shipwreck
• Strange People
• Fog Ghost
• The Frankenstein Syndrome
• My Dear Wife
• A Sin of Omission
• Feet of Clay
• Non-Paying Passengers
• It Came to Dinner
• Afterword: On Writing and Wraiths by R. Chetwynd-Hayes