Baffling Beasts Two: More Weird and Mystifying Creatures

Fifteen more horror stories about strange beings and behaviours that defy conventional definitions.

Contents:

The Crib of Hell by Arthur Pendragon

'He could never erase from his memory the evil face of the child of horror...'

Clay by C. Hall Thompson

'Each dark, downward pathway of the mind is an adventure, dangerous, deadly...'

The Curse of Yig by H. P. Lovecraft and Zelia Bishop

'A couple become aware of a chilling local legend.'

Rats by M. R. James

'The mystery surrounding a locked room in an isolated inn.'

The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake by Clark Ashton Smith

'The terror that lurked in Avilton’s library.'

The Mist-Monster by Granville S. Hoss

'A weird mist billowed up from the cave—and horrible was the thing that it did.'

The Dunstable Horror by Arthur Pendragon

'A gothic, Lovecraftian tale, of ancient evil and ghastly retribution.'

Tzo-Lin's Nightingales by Ben Belitt

'A scene of incredible madness and weird horror.'

The Worm by David H. Keller

'The floor disappeared into the Thing's maw.'

Whispers by Robert S. Carr

'In the festering swamps of Taggardsville, something unseen stirs in the night.'

Winged Death by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald

'A mysterious death, a maddened diary, and an unholy insect.'

The Cave of Spiders by William R. Hickey

'An expedition into the haunted heights of the Peruvian Andes.'

Death in Twenty Minutes by Charles Henry Mackintosh

'A death's-head spider plot.'

The Cat-Woman by Mary Elizabeth Counselman

'An unusual case of anthropomorphism.'

The Bottomless Pool by Ralph Milne Farley

'A strange black pool at the heart of a festering swamp.'