Stories in the Dark
Pain's core collection of horror fiction, supernatural and psychological, including the classic "The Moon-Slave," a woman seduced by the Great God Pan, "The Gray Cat," a loathsome familiar, and "The Undying Thing," a Gothic extravaganza featuring a deathless subterranean werewolf. Impressive range of themes and moods in a very stylish treatment.
Contents:
- The Diary of a God
- This Is All
- The Moon-Slave
- The Green Light
- The Magnet
- The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit
- The Bottom of the Gulf
- The End of a Show
- The Undying Thing
- The Gray Cat
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Barry Pain
Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864–1928) was an English journalist, poet and writer.
Born in Cambridge, he was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.
In 1889, Cornhill Magazine's editor, James Payn, published his story "The Hundred Gates", and shortly afterwards Pain became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, and joined the staffs of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White.
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