The Satyr's Head: Tales of Terror

Stories by masters of the horror tale: Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Joseph Payne Brennan, Eddy C. Bertin, David A. Riley and others. Ten chilling tales of terror and the supernatural, of ghosts and demons and the inexplicable. Selected by British and World Fantasy Award winning editor, David A. Sutton."The Nightingale Floors were part of a crumbling Chicago museum and only the brave or the foolish ventured there after dark. The building had a weird history - and no night watchman stayed there long...""Winnie was The Prefect Lady and Rupert loved every little bit of her. But when the neighbours saw her at close quarters, panic spread through Lavender Hill...""Aunt Hester had strange powers. Her ability to transfer herself into the body of her twin brother had a hideous ending - or was it a beginning?""Lamson was intrigued by The Satyr's Head. He bought the little relic from an old tramp. It brought him nightmares, disease and, worst of all, unnatural passion from a foul incubus..."

About the Author

Ramsey Campbell is an English horror writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. Two of his novels have been filmed, both for non-English-speaking markets. Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", and Robert Hadji has described him as "perhaps the finest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition", whileS. T. Joshi stated, "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood".David A. Sutton lives in Birmingham, England. He is the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, The International Horror Guild Award and twelve British Fantasy Awards for editing magazines and anthologies (FANTASY TALES, DARK VOICES: THE PAN BOOK OF HORROR and DARK TERRORS: THE GOLLANCZ BOOK OF HORROR). Other anthologies include NEW WRITINGS IN HORROR & THE SUPERNATURAL, THE SATYR'S HEAD & OTHER TALES OF TERROR, PHANTOMS OF VENICE, HAUNTS OF HORROR and DARKER TERRORS. He has also been a genre fiction writer since the 1960s with stories appearing widely in anthologies and magazines, including in BEST NEW HORROR, FINAL SHADOWS, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF MERLIN, BENEATH THE GROUND, SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH, THE BLACK BOOK OF HORROR, SUBTLE EDENS, THE GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF SHADOWS, PSYCHOMANIA, SECOND CITY SCARES and KITCHEN SINK GOTHIC. His short stories are collected in CLINICALLY DEAD & OTHER TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL and DEAD WATER AND OTHER WEIRD TALES. He is also the proprietor of Shadow Publishing, a small press specialising in collections and anthologies.

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