Beware the Beasts

by Roger Elwood (Editor), Vic Ghidalia (Editor), Fritz Leiber

The beast that crouches just beyond the light.
In every man's imagination lurks that dreadful shape - the beast that is more horrifying, more dangerous than any animal. To most people it is just a nightmare, a dream from which they awake to realize the terrors are all in the mind.
But there are some who do not awake...



In the Avu Observatory by H.G. Wells
The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft
Here, Daemos! by August Derleth
The Hound by Fritz Leiber
The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White
The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling
The Squaw by Bram Stoker
Metzengerstein by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tortoise-Shell Cat by Creye La Spina
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

Genres: Horror

160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Roger Elwood was an American science fiction writer and editor, perhaps best known for having edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in the early 1970s. Elwood was also the founding editor of Laser Books and, in more recent years, worked in the evangelical Christian market.

Reviews

[Ben Garrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting collection of classic short stories, when horror was a completely different genre. Some were engaging, some were okay. Wendigo, and the ones about cats were my favourite

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fairly typical small horror anthology from yesteryear. Nevertheless, it contains some classics such as H. P. Lovecraft's "The Cats of Ulthar" and Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo." It also has a couple of surprising gems such as H. G. Wells' "In the Avu Observatory" and Rudyard Kipling's "The Mark of the Beast." I enjoyed this old read greatly!