Dark offers chilling stories both fiction and real life about the things that scare us the most: murder hauntings visitations insanity and our own vulnerability!Examined through the eyes of some of the world's most gifted writers— Edgar Allan Poe Rudyard Kipling Robert Frost W.W. Jacobs Iain Banks Charlotte Perkins Gilman Paul Bowles Will Self Marjorie Bowen A.M. Burrage Blue Balliett —we feel the malice of serial murderers the cold evil of the undead the unreasoning hatred of the insane and most of all the incomprehensible suffering of their victims!