Mike Ashley is an internationally renowned expert on popular fiction of the 19th and 20th century with a superior collection of magazines and journals and an encyclopaedic knowledge of their contents. He has edited two previous anthologies in this series: Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories and From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea.
These stories deliberately end in mystery, leaving us tantalized and perplexed. . . . To crown all, this imaginative anthology even makes room for Arthur Machen's dizzyingly phantasmagoric The White People, and that chilling fairy tale of diabolic temptation, Lucy Clifford's The New Mother. --Washington Post