Sixteen tales of the dark powers that haunt the borders of madness by the acknowledged master of the realistic short story. From the withered hand chained to the wall, to the furniture that marched on crutches of wood over its desperate owner, these stories reveal not only the torment of the night's untruth but portray, even more frighteningly, the all-too-human terror felt when flesh and blood encounters the supernatural. The first selection of its kind to appear in English.