Weird Fiction: A Collection of Early Speculative Horror

This anthology contains a selection of early weird or speculative fiction; mostly with a slant towards the supernatural or horrific. The stories were all originally published between the 1850s and 1920s; biographical sketches of each of the authors appear at the end of each tale.

Contents include:

No. 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram

Benlian by Oliver Onions

Man-Size in Marble by E. Nesbit

Negotium Perambulans by E.F. Benson

The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen

The Baumhoff Explosive or Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani by William Hope Hodgson

What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien

The Heights and a Rose by Alma Newton

Serapion by Francis Stevens

The Damned Thing by Ambose Bierce

The People of the Pit by Abraham Merritt

The Horror-Horn by E.F. Benson

The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood