Classic Tales of the Macabre and Fantastic...In this volume of 13 o'clock tales: The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe: The moral - always be kind to cats. Always...The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell: Who is the ghostly child who tries to lure a live little girl out into the snow to play? The Boarded Window, Ambrose Bierce: After the elderly Murlock dies in his Ohio cabin, the reason for the boarded-over window is revealed... The Open Window, 'Saki' (H.H. Munro): Framton Nuttel is new in town but provided with letters of introduction, calls on a lady who - apparently - keeps her window open so that her husband and his brothers, lost in a hunting accident, may return...The Door In TheWall, H.G. Wells: A lonely, love-starved little boy finds a door that leads to a children's paradise, yet he is not certain if it is a dream or real; until later, as a grown man, the door reappears to him... Was It A Dream? Guy de Maupassant: A man, crazed with grief at the death of his lover, sits at her graveside, until the stroke of midnight reveals to him the most awful secrets of the dead. The Monkey's Paw, W.W. Jacobs: It'll grant you three wishes - exactly what you wish for...The Haunted Station, Hume Nisbet (Australia): An escaped convict, lost in the bush, finds what he believes is a deserted house - but it's not quite deserted...The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, Edgar Allan Poe: Valdemar consents to a horrific experiment - to be put in a state of suspended animation at the moment of his death. The Thing On Outer Shoal, P. Schuyler Miller : A strange fantasy of the sea, a realm as mysterious today as the furthest deeps of space...The Distortion Out Of Space, Francis Flagg: A meteor falling in a remote area of Arizona opens a doorway into another dimension. Self Portrait, Gary Crew: A corrupt cop never fulfilled his youthful dream of becoming an artist - until he became a sketch artist...Antonio's Tale, Anonymous: Gary Crew winds up his collection with a very good joke. Cover art and illustrations by Shaun Tan.