Horror for Christmas

Christmas is the time to curl up by the fire with a collection of stories designed to make your flesh creep.
Some are new stories, specially commissioned for this volume, such as basil Copper's chilling, Wish You Were Here, in which the postman delivers messages from beyond the grave.
The author of Psycho, Robert Bloch, contributes The Night Before Christmas, a powerful tale not to be read by those of a nervous disposition.
Others are by firm favourites such as Nigel Kneale, author of the classic, Quatermass. His story, The Stocking, tells of a Christmas visit from the furry, green-eyes, slithery, Minkeys.
W.W. Jacobs, the master of the hair-raising short story, is represented by Jerry Bundler, one of his most compelling tales of terror.
From another time and another place comes Sabine baring Gould's Mustapha, set in Egypt, which tells of a man tricked into damnation.
A wide range of stories are included in Horror for Christmas from the cosily creepy to the truly horrific to make a treat for Christmas no-one will want to miss.\nChristmas Eve (1975) short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes [as by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes]
Foreword (Horror for Christmas) (1992) essay by Richard Dalby
Jerry Bundler (1897) short story by W. W. Jacobs
Mustapha (1894) short story by Sabine Baring-Gould
Tarnhelm (1929) short story by Hugh Walpole
The Crown Derby Plate (1933) short story by Marjorie Bowen
The Greater Arcana (1992) short story by Ron Weighell
The Night Before Christmas (1980) novelette by Robert Bloch
The Sinister Inn (1931) short story by F. S. Smythe
The Spider (1951) short story by F. McDermott
The Stocking (1949) short story by Nigel Kneale
The Visiting Star (1966) novelette by Robert Aickman
To Dance By the Light of the Moon (1986) novelette by Stephen Gallagher
Wish You Were Here (1992) novella by Basil Copper