The Dark Descent

The Dark Descent, Vol 1: The Color of Evil by David G. Hartwell

The Dark Descent, Vol 1: The Color of Evil

The Dark Descent #1

David G. Hartwell

491 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

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

The Medusa in the Shield

The Dark Descent #2

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

498 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

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

A Fabulous, Formless Darkness

The Dark Descent #3

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

608 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark mysterious slow-paced