Danse Macabre

The first Tales of the Weird collection to focus on tales in translation, it features chilling short stories from the likes of Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, George Langelaan, Alain Doremieux and Nathalie Henneberg.

Mike Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. He edited the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction, and won the Edgar Award for The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. He has published more than 100 books, including his magnum opus of bibliographical criticism, the multi-volumed The History of the Science-Fiction Magazine.