Introduction

Terror can have such simple beginnings -- a child's letter
to Father Christmas...a pretty girl glimpsed in a London
street...a trip down the Brighton Road...a night spent in an
empty mansion for a bet?

And the consequences can be fearsome, as the unsleeping
dead walk again, as strange emotions stir inanimate things
to murderous life, as horrors beyond our imagining cross the
threshold into our world; can anyone be sure that all is as it
seems.

After you read these thirteen tales of terror, can you?