Horror and supernatural fiction

Harry Houdini is kidnapped in Egypt, tied up, taken to an unknown location, and dropped down a deep pit, where he witnesses an army of half-man, half-animal mummies leaving offerings to a five-headed, tentacled beast.

A grim tale of torture, and the blind men who were chained to pillars in an underground cave.

In Farewell to all Those, the introduction to his 1961 collection STRAYERS FROM SHEOL, H.

A man discovers, at the age of 30, that his daily waking exposure to the more practical, scientific ideas of man, has eventually eroded his ability to dream as he once did, and has made him regretfully subscribe more and more to the mundane beliefs of everyday, waking real life.

For a few seconds, however, the tall stranger seemed to lose all of his cockiness, and a somber look crept over his jovial features.

The End of the End of Everything, by Dale Bailey, is an sf/horror story about a long-married couple invited by an old friend to an exclusive artist's colony.

Creeping, writhing, insidiously crawling and groping, the long arm reached out in its ghastly errand of death.

'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.