The Twelve Frights of Christmas

by Isaac Asimov

A collection of thirteen Yuletide horror tales features the work of such masters as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Bloch, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ramsey Campbell Contains: The chimney / Ramsey Campbell Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson The night before Christmas / Robert Bloch The festival / H.P. Lovecraft The old nurse's story / Mrs. Gaskell Glámr / S. Baring-Gould Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells The weird woman / Anonymous The hellhound project / Ron Goulart Wolverden tower / Grant Allen Planet of fakers / J.T. McIntosh Life sentence / James McConnell The star / Arthur C. Clarke

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