ISBN: 0316903957
ISBN 13: 9780316903950
Publication Date: 1992
Pages: 460
Authors: Peter Crowther, Douglas E. Winter, Ray Bradbury, Stephen Gallagher, Nancy A. Collins, Darrell Schweitzer, Robert Holdstock, Chet Williamson, Pauline E. Dungate, Rex Miller, Nicholas Royle, Ed Gorman, Ian Watson, Pat Cadigan, Rick Hautala, Stephen Laws, Kim Newman, Richard Chizmar, Ramsey Campbell, William F. Nolan, Brian M. Stableford, Steve Rasnic Tem, Nancy Holder, Peter James, Andrew Vacchs, Christopher Fowler, Jonathan Carroll, James Lovegrove, Ian McDonald, David B. Silva, J.N. Williamson
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An old superstition held that to remove the nails of a deceased's coffin was to allow the poor tenant of this 'narrow house' the freedom to come forth on judgement day and behold the answers to all questions. But then all superstitions are narrow house themselves, condemning all who live within their shuttered confines to a life of fear...
These twenty-nine specially commissioned stories — from some of the greatest names in contemporary imaginative literature — investigative the world of superstition. And, in the process, the writers unleash more than even they bargained for...