The Dark Descent

The Color of Evil by David G. Hartwell

The Color of Evil

The Dark Descent #1

David G. Hartwell

438 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction horror short stories adventurous slow-paced
The Medusa in the Shield by Joanna Russ, Robert Smythe Hichens, Michael Bishop, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Theodore Sturgeon, David G. Hartwell, Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Richard Matheson, D.H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Dennis Etchison, Flannery O'Connor, Clive Barker, William Faulkner, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas M. Disch

The Medusa in the Shield

The Dark Descent #2

Joanna Russ, Robert Smythe Hichens, Michael Bishop, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Theodore Sturgeon, David G. Hartwell, Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Richard Matheson, D.H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Dennis Etchison, Flannery O'Connor, Clive Barker, William Faulkner, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas M. Disch

498 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark medium-paced
A Fabulous, Formless Darkness by Fitz-James O'Brien, Ivan Turgenev, Philip K. Dick, Robert W. Chambers, Algernon Blackwood, Charles Dickens, David G. Hartwell, Robert Aickman, Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen King, Edith Wharton, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Shirley Jackson, Thomas M. Disch

A Fabulous, Formless Darkness

The Dark Descent #3

Fitz-James O'Brien, Ivan Turgenev, Philip K. Dick, Robert W. Chambers, Algernon Blackwood, Charles Dickens, David G. Hartwell, Robert Aickman, Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen King, Edith Wharton, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Shirley Jackson, Thomas M. Disch

608 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious slow-paced
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