Muggers, slashers, street gangs, lurkers in the shadows: no need to read Lovecraft to be thoroughly terrified. Just read these 16 violent tales…or take a walk in the park tonight.

Table of Contents: New Introduction: Avoiding Dark Places Introduction to First Edition: Some Sketches of the Damned Rat Hater "I'll Bet You a Death" We Take Care of Our Dead The Man with the Golden Tongue Johnny Slice's Stoolie Joy Ride Buy Me That Blade The Hippie-Slayer Kid Killer With a Knife in Her Hand Sob Story (written with Henry Slesar) Look Me in the Eye, Boy! The Dead Shot Ship-Shape Pay-Off (written with Robert Silverberg) Made in Heaven Students of the Assassin