Fifteen stories of ‘new horror’ (for 1929) by authors of crime and the supernatural including L. P. Hartley ('The Travelling Grave'), E. F. Benson ('The Hanging of Alfred Wadham'), Walter de la Mare ('Crewe'), Hugh Walpole ('The Snow'), Arthur Machen ('The Cosy Room'), M. R. James ('Rats'), Algernon Blackwood ('The Stranger'), Mrs. Belloc Lowndes ('Her Judgment Day'), and C. H. B. Kitchin ('Dispossession').
“Good horror tales are far rarer than good detective stories. In fact, the writing of them constitutes an art in itself. And the collection presented here by [Lady Cynthia] Asquith is not only representative of modern work in this field, but includes tales that rank among the best, up on the same shelf with the eerie pieces of Poe.” (1929 review)
