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Arthur Leo Zagat wrote some of the goriest stories ever written back in the 30s when times were bad for just about everybody. They became known as "weird menace" tales which, as a genre, reached its peak with Zagat. John Pelan tells you all about the man and his time in his introduction. The stories in this collection are: The Corpse Factory, Dime Mystery Magazine, Mary 1934 A Lodging in Hell, Horror Stories, February/March 1936 Death Lands a Cargo, Dime Mystery Magazine, October 1935 Death's Mistress, Dime Mystery Magazine, September 1934 Madman's Bride, Dime Mystery Magazine, January 1935...

J.M.A. Mills is considered to have written only two novels of the occult and this is the first one, from 1937. Ramble House plans to publish the second one in early 2015. In his introduction John Pelan places the author and this suspenseful novel in historical context.

One Dreadful Night presents a mystery that is deftly woven into the underlying web of supernatural horror. From the moment that a strange face is glimpsed peering from the window of the laboratory at "Restormal," the novel builds gradually to a climatic resolution of sheer terror as the identity of the mysterious woman lurking in the dim-lit corridors is revealed in a shocking denouement. One Dreadful Night is part of that small group of novels such as Mark Hansom's The Beasts of Brahm wherein the elements of the mystery novel and the supernatural tale are blended seamlessly to create a...

The Library of Death begins at a leisurely pace, and a tone that seems to set the stage for a light romance. But then Ronald S.L. Harding deftly builds the mystery and from the moment we learn of the legend of a headless spectre that purportedly stalks the grounds and rumors of hereditary vampirism the novel undergoes another transformation with the light tone of the early chapters forgotten as horror is piled upon horror . . . So says John Pelan's introduction to this 1938 horror classic.