These are not the good Christmas stories that are so good to read to children at night. These are scary stories about the darkness that stands behind the threshold and waits for you to take one wrong step, about strange and creepy creatures that wander outside the window and sometimes look in according to your soul. Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio have collected the best stories in the genre of horror and suspense, written by recognized masters of American prose (Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Moorcock, Walter Mosley, Michael Swanwick...). Here is a collection of smart, subtle, exquisitely intelligent, exciting and truly scary stories: the door through which the Abyss peers into man.