A collection of horror stories set in shadowy caverns, crypts, and other undesirable hollows.

Contents:

Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson (Weird Tales, June-July 1939)

The story of dreadful creatures burrowing up into the New York subway.

The Creeper in the Crypt by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, July 1937)

An unusual case of kidnapping in witch-haunted Arkham.

The Secret in the Tomb by Robert Bloch (Weird Tales, May 1935)

A man answers an inexplicable summons from beyond the grave.

Murder in the Grave by Edmond Hamilton (Weird Tales, February 1935)

A night of terror ten feet below the surface of the ground.

The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller (Weird Tales, March 1932)

The tale of a terrified little boy, and his fear of what might be lurking in the basement.

It Walks by Night by Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales, December 1936)

A ghastly horror that stalked through the crypts beneath an old graveyard.

The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales, March 1936)

A cemetery caretaker must exterminate a colony of monstrous rats.

The People of the Pit by Abraham Merritt (All-Story Weekly, January 1918)

An individual descended much too deeply into the heart of the Earth.

The Epiphany of Death by Clark Ashton Smith (The Fantasy Fan, July 1934)

A shocking revelation in the catacombs of Ptolemides.

The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales, October 1933)

In the Venezuelan jungle, a diabolical plant lived on human life.

David Keller

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