Eleven stories of Nightmare fiction from the personal collection of the crown prince of terror.\nContents: 
The Lurking Fear (1928) novelette by H.P. Lovecraft 
7 Introduction (Archives of Evil) (1976) essay by Christopher Lee 
9 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire non-genre [Sherlock Holmes] (1924) short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] The world's most feared supernatural threats! 
26 Rope Enough (1939) short story by John Collier 
33 Lost Face (1908) short story by Jack London Barbaric savagery and torture! 
46 It (1940) novelette by Theodore Sturgeon 
72 The Rats of Dr. Picard (1965) short story by Henry Slesar 
76 The Beast with Five Fingers (1919) novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W.F. Harvey] A severed hand with a life . . . and will of its own. 
103 Skeleton (1976) short fiction by Ray Bradbury A horrific dark power. 
119 The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster (1928) short story by H. Russell Wakefield [as by H.R. Wakefield] 
132 Gabriel-Ernest (1909) short story by Saki 
139 The Ash Tree (1962) short story by M.R. James *variant of The Ash-Tree (1904) 
153 The Avenging Film (1928) short story by Massimo Bontempelli

Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil

Literature & Fiction

John Collier

Massimo Bontempelli

Henry Slesar

Jack, London

Theodore Sturgeon

H. R. Wakefield

M.R.James

Ray. Bradbury

arthur-conan-doyle

SAKI

W.F. Harvey

H.P.Lovecraft

United States

Mayflower Granada

Translated from the Italian by Estelle Gilson. 
Foreword Magazine "Book of the Year" Gold Medalion. 
Two novels by one of the masters of 20th century Italian fiction, published in English for the first time. 
Richly imbued with imagination, charming in their humorous irony, and eminently readable, both The Boy with Two Mothers and The Life and Death of Adria and Her Children are alive with a subtle "magic," presenting unforgettable characters across a canvas of European socio-political upheaval. These are classic stories which will haunt the mind long after their reading. In each, Bontempelli fulfills what he believed was the writer's ultimate goal: "to tell a dream as if it were reality and reality as if it were a dream." 
Before the advent of the fantastic fiction we associate with Latin American writers, it was Massimo Bontempelli who, in 1926, defined a new literary style he called realismo magico. For decades afterward the term was everywhere almost synonymous with his name. At his death in 1960, the New York Times described Bontempelli as the "leader of the futuristic school in the 1920s...whose goal it was to create a world of fantasy which would have the objectivity of the natural world."

Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children

Estelle Gilson

McPherson

Richly imbued with imagination, charming in their irony, and eminently readable, The Boy with Two Mothers and The Life and Death of Adria and Her Children are alive with a subtle "magic," presenting unforgettable characters across a canvas of European socio-political upheaval. These are classic stories which will haunt the mind long after their reading. In each, Bontempelli fulfills what he believed was the writer's ultimate goal: "to tell a dream as if it were reality and reality as if it were a dream."

Separations: Mothers and Children

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