Weird Tales : 32 Unearthed Terrors

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Summary: Weird Tales
Review: This book purports to reprint the best story of the year for each year the magazine "Weird Tales" was published, from 1923 through 1954. Not surprisingly, many of these tales range from creepy to truly scary.

Two of the stories, C.M. Eddy's "The Loved Dead," and Robert Barbour Johnson's "Far Below," I had actually heard of in urban legends passed around in grade school and middle school myself. The actual stories, dealing with necrophilia and New York's subway system, were much scarier than any rumors.

Also included are Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and stories authored by C.L. Moore, Fritz Leiber, Henry Kuttner, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov & James MacCreigh, August Derleth, and Richard Matheson, Seabury Quinn, Jack Williamson, H. Warner Munn, Robert E. Howard, and Edmund Hamilton.

I first read this book late at night and alone, while ill and unable to sleep. Please do not make my mistake.