Frank D. McSherry, Jr. (1927–1997)

Contains:
Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates --
Drawer 14 / Talmage Powell --
The jest of Warburg Tantavul / Seabury Quinn --
One of the dead / William Wood --
Emmett / Dahlov Ipcar --
Night court / Mary Elizabeth Counselman --
The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce --
The ghosts of Steamboat Coulee / Arthur J. Burks --
He walked by day / Julius Long --
The phantom farmhouse / Seabury Quinn --
Stillwater, 1896 / Michael Cassutt --
Ride the thunder / Jack Cady --
The resting place / Oliver La Farge.… (mer)

Contains:
Double vision (New Jersey) / Mary Higgins Clark --
This is death (Connecticut) / Donald E. Westlake --
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (Nevada) / Harlan Ellison --
Little Jimmy (Iowa) / Lester del Rey --
Poor little Saturday (Georgia) / Madeleine L'Engle --
On 202 (Massachusetts) / Jeff Hecht --
Ransom Cowl walks the road (New Jersey) / Nancy Varian Berberick --
School for the unspeakable (North Dakota) / Manly Wade Wellman --
The stormsong runner (West Virginia) / Jack L. Chalker --
Harry's ghost (California) / Talmage Powell --
Herbert West, reanimator (Massachusetts) / H.P. Lovecraft --
Caller in the night (Pennsylvania) / Burton Kline --
Professor Kate (Oklahoma) / Margaret St. Clair --
The guns of William Longley (Texas) / Donald Hamilton --
Clay-shuttered doors (New York) / Helen R. Hull --
The stranger (Arizona) / Ambrose Bierce --
Night-side (Massachusetts) / Joyce Carol Oates --
Drawer 14 (North Carolina) / Talmage Powell --
The jest of Warburg Tantavul New (Jersey) / Seabury Quinn --
One of the dead (California) / William Wood --
Emmett (Maine) / Dahlov Ipcar --
Night court (Alabama) / Mary Elizabeth Counselman --
The boarded window (Ohio) / Ambrose Bierce --
The ghosts of Steamboat Coulee (Washington) / Arthur J. Burks --
He walked by day (Ohio) / Julius Long --
The phantom farmhouse (Maine) / Seabury Quinn --
Stillwater, 1896 (Minnesota) / Michael Cassutt --
Ride the thunder (Kentucky) / Jack Cady --
The resting place (New Mexico) / Oliver LaFarge.… (mer)

One of the most solid horror anthologies available--and, having read dozens of them over the decades, I know whereof I speak. From the sublime (the existential horror of Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge") to the ridiculous ("The Monster of Lake LaMetrie," a mad scientist misadventure by Wardon Allan Curtis), from canonical classics ("Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft; "The Horsehair Trunk" by Davis Grubb) to more recent masterpieces (Carl Jacobi's "The Unpleasantness at Carver House"; Tom Reamy's "Twilla"; Jeffrey Goddin's "The Smell of Cherries"), all tastes are catered for. A Treasury of American Horror Stories belongs in your permanent collection.… (mer)