Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult

Horror Takes Its Time Looking for a thoughtful fright? Or perhaps a frightful thought? Packed with stories selected by one of today's leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden truths, inspire forbidden pursuits, and divulge the secrets of magical initiation in the guise of fiction. Covering topics from rituals to hauntings to the Devil himself, this one-of-a-kind volume includes selections from:

Aleister Crowley

Ambrose Bierce

Arthur Machen

Edgar Allan Poe

Robert W. Chambers

Ralph Adams Cram

H.P. Lovecraft

Dion Fortune

Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Bram Stoker

As DuQuette writes in his introduction, horror takes its time. It creeps in, seeps in, and lingers. These stories will take you hours to read, but they will stay with you, biting at your heels from the shadows, eternally. Don't say we didn't warn you...