Synopsis: From the Back Cover of the DAW first edition: When the dead rise and walk the night... From the "blessing" of Lazarus... to a Nordic spirit who ravaged the lands on the longest night of the year... to a thwarted love that would not die... to a crystal bell that could bring the gift of life renewed, but perhaps at too high a cost... here are twenty-one bold as the crypt tales of terror from the nightmare worlds of imagination. Let your shudder-evoking tour guides - Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, Orson Scott Card, Edgar Allan Poe, Erle Stanley Gardner, Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Manly Wade Wellman, and all the other masters of midnight madness - lead you on journeys that will freeze the blood in your viens as you flee past death's stony monuments and along dark and isolated pathways to confront fears more enduring than life itself...