"These terrifying tales will take you to the very brink of madness, in the remote, bleak and ominous wastes of Earth's polar regions.
Contents:
Ghost by Henry Kuttner (Astounding Science-Fiction 1943)
'An attempted exorcism at a centre of science in Antarctica.'
The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov (1906)
'A disastrous epidemic in a supposed Antarctic utopia.'
The Ice-Demon by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales 1933)
'A hunter who seeks to plunder jewels from a glacial tomb.'
The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford (Harper's Magazine 1868)
'An attempt to cross the Northwest Passage results in a series of unusual events.'
Prunes by C. P. Howard (HorrorBabble 2024)
'The water between the lighthouse and the island started to freeze, and the lone watchman looked on in horror.'"
"A second collection of classic works concerning items that harbour sinister secrets and unusual powers.
Contents:
'The Uncommon Prayer-Book' by M. R. James (London Mercury 1925)
Eight unusual copies of the Book of Common Prayer.
'The Green Flame' by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales 1930)
The tale of a strange jewel.
'The Disinterment of Venus' by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales 1934)
A curious statue unearthed in the grounds of a monastery.
'The Man Who Made Faces' by C. P. Howard (HorrorBabble 2024)
The tale of a man haunted by a past mistake.
'The God with Four Arms' by H. T. W. Bousfield (1939)
A man takes his frustrations out on a rare bronze idol.
'The Ebony Frame' by Edith Nesbit (Longman's 1891)
A beautiful and curiously carved picture frame.
'The Meerschaum Pipe' by L. A. Lewis (Tales of the Grotesque 1934)
A series of strange dreams and mysterious murders.
'The Black Stone Statue' by M. E. Counselman (Weird Tales 1937)
The story of a weird deception practised on the world by an obscure artist.
'Out of the Aeons' by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales 1935)
A Boston museum that displays an ancient mummy recovered from a sunken island.
'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James (Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary 1904)
A strange engraving, with even stranger properties."
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