Atruly distinguished collection of nineteen sublimely dark tales-all of them commissioned especially for this premiere anthology-Dark Delicacies features the work of such acknowledged contemporary masters in horror fiction as Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Nancy Holder, Richard Laymon, Brian Lumley, John Farris, Whitley Strieber, and Chelsea Quinn Yabro along with new, up-and-coming talents in the field. Together, they serve up a five-star feast of fear. Here, for the firs time ever, Dark Delicacies, the world's foremost horror boostore, lends its famous name and imprimatur to an anthology designed to please the palate of the genre's most discriminating fans, as each story defines for its notable author the nature of horror in modern times. And the result in every freshly original, deftly executed case is as terrifying as it is chillingly delicious.

Whatever spine- tingling horror this volume holds-however the terrors, awe, dread, angst, and just desserts accumulate-it may leave you, as it does the aging, haunted narrator in Clive Barker's disquieting “Haeckel's Tale,” indeed with “the terrible suspicion that it contains a clue to the ruling principle of the world.”

 

DEL HOWISON , founder of the famous horror emporium Dark Delicacies, has compiled this remarkable anthology with original stories by some of the many talented writers he hosted over the past decade at his bookstore in Los Angeles . An esteemed expert in the horror genre, he has made cameo appearances in a number of horror films.

JEFF GELB is the co-editor of the internationally popular Hot Blood erotic horror series and of the Flesh & Blood anthologies, among others, in which he has debuted new fiction by the award-winning likes of Stephen King, Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ramsey Campbell. He lives in California .