"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."
