HORROR IN THE HAUNTED DARK!Flowers with human passions embrace an eager young girl. A corpse comes home, but not to rest. A monstrous blue-eyed rat leads his macabre companions in a dance of death. A beautiful black egg spawns its hideous young. A new-buried corpse claims his forbidden love. An aging enchantress hides her frightful secret under a seductive wig. The face in an antique mirror summons a young man with killing lust ....Relentlessly fascinating and chillingly believable—sensational new stories of the supernatural.THE UNBIDDENThey are waiting just outside to let the fearful darkness in!

THE DARK BLANKET OF FEAR ...A village of flesh-eating ghouls ...The youth who fell in love with a corpse ...A bleeding ghost in search of its head ...The salesman who dealt in souls ...From the black night of the soul, tales of blood and gnawing horror - by a master storyteller.

Nightmares of shuddering horror ...The terror-crazed ghost of Battersea ...A monster that feeds on virgin's blood ...The evil Black Riders who hunt by night ...A midnight feast of the ghouls ...Echoing down the eerie centuries, tales of mortal fear to curdle the blood by a master story-teller ...

THE SHAPE OF TERRORA beautiful, horror-crazed hunchback ...A house with devouring walls ...A corpse which seeks grusome revenge ...An unspeakable gaoler from the grim, dark past ...Fear has many faces. Here are eight of its more bizarre, more nerve-jangling aspects, brought into icy focus by a master of the macabre.

When ordinary everyday things shift form and threaten your life ...When the pretty girl at the party, the pleasant young couple next door, look at you with cold, inhuman faces ...When a door opens on ... nothing ...When something shares your bed ...When you face the horror that lies in wait beyond the closed door ...... within a woman's eyes... behind the darkened windows of the empty house... inside your own shadow.The everyday horror of things that are not quite as they appear... not altogheter as they should be.The horror, not of yesterday's legends, not even of tomorrow's predictions.... but of TODAY'S nightmares.Then you will know the meaning of COLD TERROR.The first collection of R. Chetwynd-Hayes's horror stories, The Unbidden, introduced a new writer with a unique talent for describing the underworld of the macabre which may lie just beyond our everyday world. Cold Terror is his second collection of these tales, several of which are to be filmed.

Contents:BiographyThe Thing (1966)The Monster(1970)Crowning Glory (1971)Don't Go Up Them Stairs (1971)The Door (1973)Lord Dunwilliam and the Cwn Annwn (1973)The Labyrinth (1974)Christmas Eve (1975)The Ghouls (1975)The Ghost Who Limped (1975)The Werewolf and the Vampire (1975)The Fly-by-Night (1976)The Shadmock (1976)The Werewolf (1978)A Living Legend (1982)Rudolph (1987)