The Fiend in You

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The origins of horror...
In the lonely darkness of your bed, have you ever started up trembling, sweating - knowing you have been wakened by something, unable to discover what?
This is outside horror - terror you can dispel with a light.
But in the long reaches of the night, have you ever cringed in a knot, curdled with terror at something remembered, something you nearly did, or wanted to do?
You are getting a little closer.
For horror comes from somewhere. Skeptics claim it is the invention, or the result, of over-heated imaginations. And in doing so they prove the worst horror of all - that the real roots of abysmal terror and monstrous evil lie in the human mind.

This is the fiend in you...

Contents:

Introduction by Charles Beaumont
Finger Prints by Richard Matheson
Fool's Mate by Stanley Ellin
Big, Wide, Wonderful World by Charles E. Fritch
The Night of the Gran Baile Mascara by Whit Burnett
A Punishment to Fit the Crimes by Richard M. Gordon
The Hornet by George Clayton Johnson
Perchance to Dream by Charles Beaumont
The Thirteenth Step by Fritz Leiber
The Conspiracy by Robert Lowry
Room with a View by Esther Carlson
The Candidate by Henry Slesar
One of Those Days by William F. Nolan
Lucy Comes to Stay by Robert Bloch
The Women by Ray Bradbury
Surprise! by Ronald Bradford
Mute by Richard Matheson