Publisher's Synopsis
The anxiety and dread of wartime Britain is recaptured in this anthology of horror stories and supernatural fiction dating from 1914-18. Selections include Max Beerbohm's "Enoch Soames," Algernon Blackwood's "By Water," and "Thirteen at Table" by Lord Dunsany as well as tales by Saki, M. R. James, E. Nesbit, and other English, Canadian, Scottish, and Irish authors.