Valiant Thor’s Book of the Weird

In his "Book of the Weird," Commander Valiant Thor offers up some classic tales of high strangeness, which should keep the reader up at night on dark, rainy evenings: -A Creature Imagined (excerpt) by C. S. Lewis -The Cocoon by John B. L. Goodwin -The Hair by A. J. Alan -The Brown Hand by Arthur Conan Doyle -The Nightmare Lake by H. P. Lovecraft -Mrs. Manifold by August Derleth -The Ancient Track by H. P. Lovecraft -The Monster of Baylock by F. H. Lee -Phase Two (excerpt) by John Wyndham -The Night Crawlers by H. P. Lovecraft -The Howler by H. P. Lovecraft -A Crossbreed by Franz Kafka -The Mansions of the Dead by Robert Blair -Halloween in a Suburb by H. P. Lovecraft -The Quest for Blank Claveringi by Patricia Highsmith -Wentworth's Day by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth -The Shark-Man Nanaue by E. M. Nakuina 164 • The Monster (excerpt) • short fiction by Edmund Spenser 167 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford 192 • What Was It? • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien