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Stories for the Dead of Night
Stories for the Dead of Night | Don Congdon
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This collection is designed for reading when alone and at night, when you may be assailed by doubts that the back door was REALLY locked an hour ago. You will find no stories in this collection by the recognized "specialists" in the horror field, such as H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, et al. These good authors seem to reach a little too deliberately for their effects. It is our hope that almost any story herein could suggest, in the beginning at least, a commonplace experience, so that you could easily find yourself in the same setting, or, if you will, in the same nightmare. You will also note that we did not call these stories the Best or the Greatest or the Worst. They were chosen generally because we found them the most difficult to get out of mind. Perhaps this is the real test of a story for the Dead of Night, or any other time.
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“This collection is designed to be read at night, when you may be assailed by doubts that the back door was *really* locked an hour ago.”

Well, then! 🎃💀🎃

LeahBergen Love it! 😆 12mo
Aimeesue @LeahBergen I love these old collections. The covers are always amazing, though not always in a good way 😂 12mo
Billypar For me, it's not even a question of whether covers like this are objectively better or worse than modern ones, but I do find them 100% more frightening 😨 🙈 12mo
Aimeesue @Billypar It‘s true, they are! 12mo
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Great selection of creepy stories, collected into one volume in 1957 by Don Congdon, more famously known as Ray Bradbury‘s literary agent (I read Bradbury‘s short-story “The Illustrated Man” for the first time in this book). Other favorites include “The Chaser” by John Collier, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, “The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen and “Sredni Vashtar” by Saki (H.H. Munro). Background record “Maggot Brain” by Funkadelic.