The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories

Scream—and scream again! That’s the only reasonable response to The Screaming Skull and Other Classic Horror Stories, a connoisseur’s collection of some of the best short horror stories published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The thirty tales gathered here are a ghoul’s gallery of macabre masterpieces, written by horror fiction’s best—and darkest—writers.

Spanning the American and European continents and extending from the dawn of the Victorian era to the pulp magazine exp...