Horror! Under the Tombstone: Stories from the Deathly Realm

Selected by David A. Sutton. Cover art by James D. Oddey.

Black magic, withcraft, life after death, extrasensory perception and the classic horror of suspense and sudden death are the subjects of this collection of thirteen stories by Ramsey Campbell, Ken Bulmer, David A. Riley, Robert Holdstock and others.

IMAGINE THE SIXTIES and Seventies... Hammer films and American International Pictures... The time of Plague of the Zombies, Lust for a Vampire, Quatermass and the Pit, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace and The Masque of the Red Death. Imagine we’re back there now... No mobile phones, no videotapes or DVDs, no personal computers. And iPads and Kindles are decades away. Where we are now, music is played on vinyl records with a stylus picking up the recorded sound on an old fashioned “radiogram”. Horror stories had their emphasis on strong supernatural themes; this was an era when you could believe in vampires and strange otherworlds. Ghosts, demons, monsters, maniacs, black magic. These are the subject matter of this anthology of yarns from the deathly realm... A stage magician and his horrific secrets revealed to a meddling assistant... The bizarre appearance of an Arabian market in a Surrey garden... A railway station from which none of the ill-fated travellers can escape... A man searching for his lost wife in a dreamlike realm... A film director trying to capture the essence of a witches’ coven and its sacrifice. The writers in this book offer up their weird and peculiar offerings for your reading pleasure. Twenty-three short stories... start your journey now!

Contents:

• Under the Tombstone by Ken Bulmer
• The Inglorious Rise of the Catsmeat Man by Robin Smyth
• The Farmhouse by David A. Riley
• The People Down Below by Julia Birley
• Phantasmagoria by W. T. Webb
• Goat by David Campton
• Prison by Bryn Fortey
• The Winner by E. C. Tubb
• The Time of Waiting by Richard Davis
• The Hollow Where by Michael G. Coney
• Mr. Nobody by R. W. Mackleworth
• Charley's Chair by David Rome
• Broadcast by Ramsey Campbell
• A Bottle of Spirits by David A. Riley
• Television Wife by W. T. Webb
• The Darkness by Robert P. Holdstock
• Grooley by James Wade
• Shrewhampton North-East by Bryn Fortey
• Demoniacal by David A. Sutton
• Infra-Man by Roger Parkes
• The Ghosts in the Garden by Rosemary Timperley
• Marianne's Boy by Elizabeth Fancett
• The Other House by Ramsey Campbell