The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories
Editor: Christine Bernard
 
The 1st Anthology in the series that spawned it's own legend
 
Blood-curdling Tales of Terror
14 Dealers in Devilry
 
The Pond
The old man's arm had come away at the shoulder: reeds and green water-plants and slime tumbled from the broken joint . . .
 
The Next in Line
The woman had wakened under the earth. She had torn, shrieked, clubbed at the box-lid, died of suffocation, hands flung over her gaping face . . .
 
A Case of Eavesdropping
Like a thick worm, it crawled into the room. He stretched out his hand to touch it . . . It was sluggish - and it was warm - and he saw that his fingers were stained with living crimson!
 
FONTANA BOOKS 8th IMPRESSION MAY 1973