Hugo Award-winning editor David G. Hartwell presents a series of anthologies tracing the complex, 200-year evolution of horror through the genre’s finest short stories and novellas. The collections demonstrate the close-knit ties between horror and other dark fiction, including the Gothic, weird, fantastic, and psychological subgenres.
The Dark Descent, which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, consists of three volumes–The Color of Evil, The Medusa in the Shield, and A Fabulous Formless Darkness–each of which includes short stories from classic authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, and Charles Dickens; as well as modern writers such as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Clive Barker, and Shirley Jackson. A preface to each story explains its history and its author’s place within the horror genre.
Dark Descent (Volume 1)
David G. Hartwell
Tor/Forge
In the first entry of the Dark Descent series, Hugo Award winning editor David G. Hartwell presents The Color of Evil, an anthology of nineteen superb stories of dark fantasy and...
Dark Descent
Edited by David G. Hartwell; With contributions by Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others
Tor/Forge
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction.” —Chicago Sun-Times
