From master storyteller E. C. Tubb comes ten chilling tales of dark fantasy and supernatural horror. Set against a wall of trees, the old mansion squatted like a decaying beast, scabbed with lichen, beneath the sagging eaves. Lightning flashed over the twisted chimneys and brought into bright prominence the flaking bricks and mouldering tiles. The relic of a bygone age, to all appearances empty and with no sign of life as Stephen Aldcock and his wife, Diane, take refuge from the storm. But as lightning flashes again against the windows, some fickle form flickers in the glass. Edwin Charles Tubb was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. He has used 58 pen names over five decades. Edwin died in 2010.