Sometimes we want to be a little scared when we hear a story. Our nerves to tingle, the hair on our necks to gradually stand up.

We can suspend our own reality for a while as authors lay out their wares of anxiety, worry, tension, and then increase the levels one by one until we are gripped by forces that make us afraid. It’s a real feeling.

In this volume story after story assault our senses with mere words, with thoughts and descriptions that twist and deceive, with outcomes that we dread and shudder at the thought of.

1 - Spinechillers - An Anthology of Fear - An Introduction

2 - The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

3 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens

4 - The Music on the Hill by Saki

5 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

6 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft

7 - Man Size In Marble by Edith Nesbit

8 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs

9 - Dog or Demon by Dorothy Havers

10 - Caterpillars by E F Benson

11 - The Beast With Five Fingers by W F Harvey

12 - Smee by A M Burrage

13 - The Dead Smile by F Marion Crawford

14 - The Ash Tree by M R James.wav

15 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood

16 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

17 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon

18 - Satan's Circus by Lady Eleanor Smith