Nine 'Tales of the Dark' introduced by Laird Hunt, whose House in the Dark of the Woods I reviewed earlier this month. What makes the selection son enjoyable for British readers is that these are American classics which we rarely see over here. I had read the Chambers story before, as part of his celebrated The King in Yellow, and feel sure I must have read 'The Masque of the Red Death' but if so remembered none of it. Anything by Edith Wharton and Shirley Jackson is always worth reading, and I had forgotten how amusing Mark Twain can be. Overall, my favourite was 'An Itinerant House' by Emma Francis Dawson, in which the house does the haunting. Again, there are no duds.
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