Sixth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, The (Vintage Paperback Anthology)

Heart-thumping Horror! 16 Dark Tales of Devilish Delight!

In The Cocoon, "something came through the door and half crawled, half fluttered to Denny's bed. Then it wormed its way beneath the sheet and rested ted like a sticky pulp upon Denny's mouth.

Miss Gentilbelle "The parakeet screamed for a considerable time... When it was silent, the white ingers that clutched it were stained with a dark thin fluid."

Party Pieces "From the kitchen there came a noise of throbbing-a terrible, low heart-beat, glow drumming remorselessly.

* The Quest for Blank Claveringi by Patricia Highsmith
* Back for Christmas by John Collier
* The Cocoon by John B. L. Goodwin
* The End of the Party by Graham Greene
* Hard Luck Story by Pamela Vincent
* Srendi Vashtar by Saki
* Miss Gentilbelle by Charles Beaumont
* The Pioneers of Pike’s Peak by Basil Tozer
* Miriam by Truman Capote
* Cold Sleep by Sydney J. Bounds
* The Mysterious Mansion by Honore de Balzac
* Earth to Earth by Robert Graves
* The Man and the Snake by Ambrose Bierce
* Close Behind Him by John Wyndham
* Letter to a Young Lady in Paris by Julio Cortazar
* Party Pieces by Mary Danby