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Blurb: “Edited by John Canning
Stories of terrifying events have fascinated men from time immemorial; and in our own day they are as compulsive in their attraction as ever.
An explosive force in the heart of man, terror has dynamited him from the cave into the civilization of the twentieth century.
Gathered together in this book are some of the aspects the face of terror has assumed through the centuries.
Here is Genghis Khan whimsically amused as six men are boiled alive for his entertainment; the Sawney Beane family living in incest and by cannibalism; the infamous treachery and massacre of Glencoe. Here, too, is the ritual murder of Thuggee, and the terrible practice of Suttee.
Krakatoa erupts with the force of a hundred hydrogen bombs; the San Andreas fault "creeps" to cause the San Francisco earthquake; coffins rain like bombs on Valparaiso.
And as we approach the present we find a broadcast by Orson Welles causing mass hysteria, an English officer surviving death by hanging during the Second World War, the immolation of Hiroshima.
A test-parachutist and a naval pilot find a heroic answer to fear; but the unbelievable moors murders present a darker side of terror.
As the reader looks upon the face of terror, so does he become aware that its most numerous features are provided by the cruelty and wickedness of man himself. It is as though he were looking at his own ugly and distorted reflection.
And this no doubt is why these tales of terror are so completely absorbing.
VIDA DERRY, author of a number of novels of intrigue and romance, short stories and ar-ticles,
which have been translated into several
languages.
Her special interests are cookery,
travel, fashion - and ghosts.
MICHAEL and MOLLIE HARDWICK, who are husband and wife, are two of Britain's busiest writers.
As well as over a. dozen books on lit-
erary,
historical and other subjects, they have written hundreds of plays for radio, television and the stage, and are literary columnists for a newspaper and magazine group. In the ghost-story field they were responsible for the BBC's
"Mystery
Playhouse" and tales of Mystery and
Suspense" series.
ROBIN MILLER, Suffolk born and bred, began writing in New York, where he spent ten years.
He now lives in London, writing for the stage, television, radio and magazines.
TONY PARKER, writer and broadcaster, has established a reputation with his penetrating
analyses
of the criminal mind: Five Women,
The Twisting Lane, and others.
RONALD SETH, the author of Witches and their Craft, has been interested in the supernatural from his ninth year when he witnessed a hostile act of black magic.
FRANK USHER, author, journalist,
crimin-
ologist. Under his pseudonym, Charles Franklin, he has published The World's Worst Murders,
Century.
World-famous Trials and Spies of the Twentieth
JAMES WENTWORTH DAY, author, editor, royal biographer, broadcaster,
historian and
sportsman has written forty books on sport, country life, farming, and ghosts.
Jacket design: Doug Anderson