Cursed Curiosities

Summary

A collection of classic works concerning items that harbour sinister secrets and unusual powers.

Contents:

"The Artist and the Door" by Dorothy Quick

The house and contents had been exorcised of evil...

"The Ghoul Gallery" by Hugh B. Cave

An eldritch horror that leaped out of the black night.

"The Haunted Dolls' House" by M. R. James

An antique dolls’ house, complete with a family of figurines.

"Lethe" by Harold G. Shane

The strange fascination of an old oil painting.

"The Magic Mirror" by Algernon Blackwood

A devil-mirror famed for bringing both death and riches.

"The Ring" by J. M. Fry

A series of startling happenings beset the man who wore that ring.

"The Screaming Skull" by F. Marion Crawford

A curious, haunted skull.

"The Shining Pyramid" by Arthur Machen

Mysterious stones that begin to appear on the edge of a man's land.

"The Waxwork" by A. M. Burrage

A journalist spends the night alone in a wax museum.

"The Willow Landscape" by Clark Ashton Smith

Concerning the curious nature of an ancient painting.